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AudioQuest cables and other audio products combine solid conductors, high- purity metals, specialized geometries, and stable dielectrics to enable naturally. March AudioQuest Sky Interconnects and Volcano Speaker Cables. By Marc Mickelson.

“Sky is a reference-level interconnect, one of the very best on the. Enjoy the experience of 4K content with help from this AudioQuest Sky HDMI cable. Once acclimated to Volcano, I swapped it out for Cardas Golden Reference speaker cables and put in the AudioQuest Sky interconnects in order to isolate their sound and you think audio reviewing is all fun?Sky and Volcano did justice to all kinds of recordings.Detail is never thrust at you — there is no forwardness or aggression — but every musical gesture, no matter how small, is present and accounted for. There was extreme air and extreme smoothness coupled with a more absolute sense of background silence — a combination audioqyest made it easier to hear deeply into recordings and never feel as though some ugly byproduct was lurking around the corner.Normally when I review interconnects and speaker cables, I use the two together as a system exclusively.I especially like the RCAs, which are not locking types but still fit snugly around the jack, and the flexibility of the cable itself. It sounded just a touch sweet. Sky uses “Perfect-Surface Silver PSS solid conductors, which are said to minimize ‘distortion caused by grain boundaries that exist within any metal conductor,’ and Teflon Air-Tube insulation, which has ‘almost nothing but air around the PSS audioquewt.I’m no engineer, so I can’t comment with any sort of credentials about AudioQuest’s Dielectric-Bias System, but I can say that it sounds like it works.

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It sounded just a touch sweet when compared to the bulk of speaker cables I’ve heard, some of aufioquest sound more whitish and others more coppery. Break-in is vital with the Cardas cables — they sound pretty awful without at least 50 hours of time on them audioqquest and a non-issue with Sky and Volcano.Speakers, for instance, can comprise more than one cabinet per channel, audioqueat CD and LP playback may require more than one chassis each.

The eight positive and eight negative conductors spiral counter to each other, the band of negative conductors on the outside of the skj conductors, so that the conductors cross each other instead of run parallel for the length of the cable.In both cases, I can’t say that the sound was initially “very good,” as with Volcano alone. AudioQuest has found that 50 volts is the threshold above which the benefits of additional voltage are “pretty subtle,” according to Harley.This is a strategy that other cables companies embrace, but it is applied in different ways. I used AudioQuest Sky and Volcano with a distinguished lineup of reference-level components: There was a certain corporeal nature to audioquesg presentation that gave vocals and instruments a solidity that I valued. Its bass was very good, though not quite up to the sheer power and slam of that of the networked speaker cables I’ve used. The RCAs audioquesg especially noteworthy because they look to be proprietary and are direct silver plated.

The battery packs sudioquest the cable’s audioqyest constantly charged with 72V DC and thereby ensure that the dielectric never drains its energy as distortion, providing “considerably better transparency and dynamics than are possible even from a cable in continuous use. How well the cables accomplish the task of passing the musical signal is the trick, however. The 16 copper conductors are of four different sizes so that any sonic character from one size is offset by the others, a feature AudioQuest calls Spread Spectrum Technology.The magnitude of the difference is similar to that of swapping out an entire set of cables, which is to say that the sound audioquset utterly sjy. And then there are AudioQuest’s latest interconnects and speaker cables, which use the company’s Dielectric-Bias System DBS and thereby carry the banner of specialization in a very obvious manner.Given this, I thought it prudent to use both separately and then together, so I could report on any differences I hear in their presentations and then how well they work together.

It was difficult to sit still and not throw on CD after CD whose inherent expansiveness would be enhanced.Home Audio Equipment Review. The DBS consists of an insulated anode and uninsulated cathode inside each cable run that are connected to a pair of 36V battery packs affixed to the cable’s ausioquest end. I do this because you write us most often about full sets of cables, not just interconnects or speaker cables.It has a big, robust presentation that’s not particularly light or dark, fast or slow. Both are handsomely made and incorporate many of AudioQuest’s signature design elements.If you endeavor to experiment, just be sure you give the dielectric ample time to drain and charge, which means that quick swapping will prove nothing.AudioQuest argues that the phenomenon of cable break-in is actually a matter of the dielectric adapting to a charged state, and audioquedt the cable is not being used, it returns to its uncharged state. Sound Volcano “has a big, robust presentation that’s not particularly light or dark, fast or slow.Best Product Debut Review Summary Sound Volcano “has a big, robust presentation that’s not particularly light or dark, fast or slow. When the magnetic field is more powerful, more iron filings are aligned.

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