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Stereophile Recommended And A Great Budget Cable - Audioquest Type 4 

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A Stereophile recommended cable, at this price? Absolutely! We could dazzle you with fancy acronyms like LGC, SST or FYI, but one listen will reveal why Type 4, like so many Audioquest cables, has been on Stereophile’s recommended list for years. Type 4 has much greater resolution, rhythmic swing and musicality than any cable at this price point should be allowed to have! Highly Recommended!

Audioquest cables are legendary in audiophile circles for their neutrality and resolution. For 28 years, Audioquest has worked tirelessly to achieve sonic neutrality in all their cables, regardless of price. Ensuring that music flows unchanged and uncolored requires removing the myriad distortions that occur when a signal flows through a cable. To accomplish this, Audioquest bypassed conventional cable design and focused their efforts on both the physical properties and sonic characteristics of the conductors and connectors, as well as every other material used in the creation of their cables.

At first glance, Type 4 looks like a normal round cable, but inside is a fully optimized and very sophisticated balance of quality ingredients and refined design.

CONDUCTORS: All four of Type 4’s conductors are solid. Electrical and magnetic interaction between strands in a conventional cable is the single greatest source of distortion, often causing a somewhat harsh, dirty and confused sound. Solid conductors are the most important ingredients enabling Type 4’s very clear sound. Whether a conductor is solid or stranded, skin-effect is a prime distortion mechanism in speaker cables. Type 4 very simply keeps this effect out of the audio range by using conductor sizes that are below the threshold for audible distortion.

LONG-GRAIN COPPER: Type 4’s LGC (Long-Grain Copper) allows a smoother and clearer sound than cables using regular OFHC (Oxygen-Free High-Conductivity) copper. OFHC is a general metal industry specification regarding “loss,” without any concern fordistortion. LGC has fewer oxides within the conducting material, less impurities, less grain boundaries, and definitively better performance.  All drawn metal exhibits directionality, whether in hardware store wire or in the best AQ cable. Audioquest would love to design away this awkwardness, but since they can’t, they pay close attention to optimizing performance by clearly marking the cables and terminations.  Please watch for these markings when installing Audioquest audio cables.

GEOMETRY: The relationship between conductors defines a cable’s most basic electrical values (capacitance and inductance).However, even when those variables are kept in a reasonable balance, the relationship between conductors can be varied in ways thatgreatly effect the sound. The spiral construction of Type 4 allows for significantly better dynamic contrast and information intelligibilitythan if the same conductors were run in parallel. The specific 4-cross geometry used in Type 4 maximizes this advantage.

INSULATION: In a low level cable the insulating material significantly affects the cable’s performance. However, in a speaker cable the electrical effect of insulation is almost only heard as a dry irritating sound prior to a cable being fully “run-in” … technically “adapting to acharged state.” The term “break-in” does not apply because taking away the charge will slowly return the cable to its “new” condition.  The insulation’s mechanical (hard vs. soft) properties make an important difference in stranded cables. The harder the better in order to minimize strand movement. Since solid conductors don’t need hard insulation, they can take advantage of the vibration damping advantage of a softer insulation.

SST (Spread Spectrum Technology): Any single size or shape of conductor has a specific distortion profile. Even though radially symmetrical conductors (solid round or tubular) have the fewest discontinuities, any particular size does have a sonic signature. SST is a method for significantly reducing the awareness of these character flaws by using a precise combination of different size conductors.  SST enables Type 4 to be the biggest possible four conductor cable that avoids audible skin-effect.