QED Silver Anniversary XT Speaker Bi-Wire Cable

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Silver Anniversary XT Bi-wire incorporates the same high performance characteristics of the award winning Silver Anniversary XT Cable.

The SA XT Bi-wire delivers a super high-end performance at a realistic price, allowing greater bass extension and control, together with more openness and detail in the mid and high frequencies. This cable continues to use the highly successful Aircore technology for efficient and effective termination

Silver Anniversary-XT Bi-Wire utilises a side-by-side ‘double figure 8’ arrangement with each silver-plated core visible through a flexible 3.9mm diameter clear polyethylene outer sheath. To ensure correct speaker ‘phasing’ the inner spacers, which maintain the cylindrical configuration of the cores, are individually colour coded. These spacers are also ‘crush-able’ to allow straightforward crimping with Airloc™ speaker plugs.

“Silver Anniversary XT Bi-Wire AWARDED FIVE STARS WHAT HI-FI SOUND & VISION OCT 2006". What Hi-Fi Sound & Vision

The QED Silver Anniversary XT connects your Amplifier to your speakers.

QED Silver Anniversary XT Bi-Wire Speaker Cable

Awarded Speaker Five Stars by What Hi-Fi Sound & Vision Magazine

Unique SPOFC triple braid 5 x 16 x 0.1mm

Compressible Teflon Aircore™ for ease of termination

Low resistance, low capacitance and low inductance

Easy strip Polyethylene outer jacket

4 x 1.88mm2 conductor cross sectional area

Terminal connectors - Optional. Choice of AIRLOC Banana or AIRLOC Spade terminal plugs

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X-TUBE™ WITH AIRCORE™ TECHNOLOGY – HOW IT WORKS.

One of the big problems as cable conductor size increases, is how to keep the inductance low. This is vital to reduce cable losses and prevent inaccuracies in the signal transfer process, i.e. distortion.

The normal way to do this is to use a number of individually insulated conductors within the cable construction. This method is utilised to great effect in the design of our Genesis Silver Spiral loudspeaker cables. However, this results in a product that has a very high quality sound performance, but is expensive to manufacture and can be difficult to terminate.

To take advantage of this design ethos, but in a more conventional format, X-TUBE forms the conductor in the shape of a tube with an inner aircore. This has the same effect as using multiple insulated conductors and ensures that high frequencies are transmitted cleanly, with the added benefit of ease of termination. This unique tubular conductor geometry also provides lower flux density within the conductors, which gives improved transparency to the sound.

THE SIGNAL

1.) At low frequencies both X-TUBE™ and conventional stranded/solid core speaker cable convey signals in a linear way. This is represented by the uniform green colour of the strands shown in the two diagrams above.

2.) At higher frequencies X-TUBE retains a near-linear signal transfer, whereas the conventional stranded/solid core cable fails to efficiently conduct higher frequencies uniformly across the entire conductor area. The diagram shows excess current density at the periphery (designated in red) and rapidly deteriorating current density (green through to white) 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. The result is induced distortion and a compromise in the performance of the cable.

X-TUBE with Aircore™ technology exhibits much lower self-inductance and is therefore less affected by this problem. The use of an innovative Polyethylene aircore enables a reduction in loop inductance to levels only usually achievable by using more costly and difficult to terminate cables.

TERMINATION

We can terminate your cable with QED's superb 24 Carat gold plated AIRLOC termination plugs. AIRLOC is QED's specialised loudspeaker termination method and offers the very best termination with QED speaker cables. This is a solder-free, airtight fusion between the cable and plug and offers optimum signal transfer, excellent signal quality and perfect long-term performance.

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Product Reviews for QED Silver Anniversary XT Speaker Bi-Wire Cable

Submitted By: Trevor Kislingbury on 04/06/2010
Bought this cable to go with my marrantz 6003 cd and amp and wharfedale 10.1's, Previously was using some cambridge audio bi-wire cable and have to say the improvement i have heard with this new cable is great and worth the extra cash, sonically much better and with a lot more punch. Also delivery was excellent ordered 2pm thursday with the standard postage option arrived 9-30 am friday, and it was well packaged. Very pleased

Submitted By: Benoit CAMBON on 08/08/2009
Thanks FutureShop, very fast delivery even in France, perfect packaging. Very clear and accurate sound of the Silver anniversary XT and of course the benefits of the biwiring specially for the low frequencies, excellent for a system which needs a bit of energy.... but not for an already agressive or "dry" one.

Submitted By: Stephane Durand on 27/05/2009
Really Fast delivery as promised ! Fabulous cables ! Excellent design and sound ! Definitely a good bargain at this price ! :D

Submitted By: Twan Scheepers on 12/11/2008
Hello from the Netherlands, orderd the cables sunday, arrived today, wednesday!! Thanks Futureshop for quick delivery and Qed for great souding cables !! Twan

Submitted By: Tom Grayling on 22/10/2008
I have just bought these cables as an upgrade to my 15 year old cables. Firstly they look so much better and secondly I think they sound better. Can't say by how much as I have just moved house and the set up is in a very different room but ther is no dopubt the sound is better. What I can say is that I have purchased two items recently from the futureshop and their service and delivery is first class. Both items received the next day! How nice it is to experience quality service . Thanks guys (if you read these reviews)

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