About The QED Silver Anniversary XT Speaker Cable
QED's multi-award winning Reference Silver Anniversary XT speaker cable delivers superior performance for all your hi-fi and home theatre speaker wire needs. Buy as much as you need, but remember that plugs/connectors are not included.
Part of QED's Reference Range, Silver Anniversary XT has been specifically designed as the natural replacement for the multi-award winning Silver Anniversary speaker cable. Combining the features of Silver Anniversary with the added enhancement of X-Tube technology to combat the skin effect and deliver stunning detail. High performance low density polyethylene dielectric cuts down on the amount of audio signal energy lost due to cable capacitance. Silver plated 99.999% OFC conductors provides a low frequency path for the audio signal and delivers stunning high frequency detail.
QED X-Tube Technology: At low frequencies both X-Tube and conventional stranded/solid core speaker cables convey signals in a linear way. However, at high frequencies, X-Tube retains a near-linear signal transfer, whereas the conventional cables fail to conduct uniformly across the entire conductor area. In standard speaker cables at high frequencies current flow is highest at the periphery with rapidly deteriorating current density towards the centre of the conductor. The effect of this is to reduce the actual cross sectional area of the cable at 15kHz to less than 75% of that at low frequencies. This results in higher distortion and compromises the performance of the cable. X-Tube with polycore technology exhibits much lower self-inductance and is therefore less affected by this problem. The polycore technology reduces loop inductance too levels only achievable using more costly and difficult to terminate cables. So, with more high frequency detail, less distortion and greater performance, X-Tube delivers greater fidelity across the audio spectrum which would otherwise be lost in ordinary cables.
Awards
What Hi-Fi? awarded the QED Silver Anniversary XT 'Product of the Year' 3 years running and had this to say about this remarkable cable: "nothing else at this price point sounds as superbly balanced and detailed".
Main Features & Specifications
- Product Description: Unterminated speaker cable
- Insulation: High performance low density polyethylene dielectric
- Conductors: Silver plated 99.999% OFC conductors
- Unique SPOFC triple braid 5 x 16 x 0.1mm
- Special Feature: X-Tube technology
- Outside Diameter: 3.90mm
- Cross-sectional Area: 1.50mm²
- Loop Resistance: 21m/m
- Capacitance: 50pF/m
- Inductance: 0.47H/m
- Dissipation factor: 0.0006
- Terminations: The best banana plugs for terminating this cable are the QED Airloc Banana Plugs.
- Manufacturer's Warranty: Lifetime - Does not cover misuse or abuse
Note: Features & Specifications Subject To Change Without Notice. E&OE.