Name: AudioQuest Carbon Digital Coax Cable
SKU: 460747

Product Details ＋

AudioQuest Digital Coax cables are designed to minimize distortion across an extremely wide bandwidth. For many applications, the speed of digital communication is important. Most visibly, “speed” is about transferring large files as quickly as possible or carrying enough data for HD video.

For Digital Coax audio “speed” is critical not because of how-much how-fast, but because time relationships within a digital stream are critical to the reconstruction of the analogue waveform that brings information, music and joy to our ears. Time-based damage (jitter) to this information within the data package makes the sound small and flat instead of 3D, harsh and foggy instead of smooth and clear.

Available Lengths: 0.75m-5m

The digital coax series of cables from AudioQuest are:

Forest
Cinnamon
Carbon
Coffee
Diamond
Wild
WEL Signature

Carbon digital cables feature 5% silver with solid copper conductors. A 0.41mm gauge is supported by a hard-cell foam dielectric, a carbon based multi-layer noise-dissipation Cold-Welded, Hanging Silver Directly Over Pure Purple Copper termination. As you move up through the range to WEL signature, the conductors, noise dissipation and shielding all improve to improve clarity through reduced distortion and cross-talk between other cables.

Features

SOLID 5% SILVER CONDUCTORS IMPROVE ANALOG PERFORMANCE

Solid conductors eliminate inter-strand distortion, one of the biggest sources of distortion in cables.

CARBON-BASED 5-LAYER NOISE-DISSIPATION SYSTEM (NDS)

It's easy to accomplish 100% shield coverage. Preventing captured Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from modulating the equipment's ground reference requires AQ's Noise-Dissipation System (NDS). Traditional shield systems typically absorb and then drain noise/RF energy to component ground, modulating and distorting the critical "reference" ground plane, which in turn causes a distortion of the signal. NDS's alternating layers of metal and carbon-loaded synthetics "shield the shield," absorbing and reflecting most of this noise/RF energy before it reaches the layer attached to ground.

FOIL SILVER-PLATED BRAID SHIELD

COLD-WELDED, HANGING-SILVER DIRECTLY OVER PURE PURPLE COPPER TERMINATIONS

HARD-CELL FOAM INSULATION

Hard-Cell Foam (HCF) Insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry. Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy. Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. Hard-Cell Foam Insulation is similar to the Foamed-PE used in our more affordable Bridges & Falls cables, and is nitrogen-injected to create air pockets. Because nitrogen (like air) does not absorb energy and therefore does not release any energy from or into the conductor, distortion is reduced. In addition, the stiffness of the material allows the cable's conductors to maintain a stable relationship along the cable's full length, producing a stable impedance character and further minimizing distortion.