AudioQuest Lone Ranger Full-Range ZERO-Tech Speaker Cable - Factory Terminated

AudioQuest Lone Ranger Full-Range ZERO-Tech Speaker Cable - Factory Terminated

The AudioQuest Lone Ranger Full-Range ZERO-Tech Speaker Cable builds on proven AudioQuest engineering with meaningful upgrades in conductor mass, noise control and impedance management. Featuring Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ conductors and ZERO-Tech geometry, Lone Ranger eliminates characteristic impedance between amplifier and speaker, allowing current to flow with minimal compression or transient restriction. The result is a presentation defined by greater dynamic ease, improved resolution and a more muscular, authoritative tonal balance.

Compared to earlier designs, Lone Ranger incorporates significantly more PSC+ copper while maintaining a physically manageable construction thanks to its positive and negative conductors being housed in separate round assemblies. Advanced RF noise dissipation is achieved through alternating layers of graphene, carbon-loaded synthetics and silver-plated drain wires, while the 72v Dielectric-Bias System polarises the insulation to reduce dielectric noise and lower the perceived noise floor. Permanent Molecular Optimization further stabilises materials to minimise distortion and shorten the settling period.

Factory-terminated with cold-welded, hanging-silver-over-red-copper spades or bananas, Lone Ranger avoids solder and metal barrel dressings that can introduce unwanted noise. Designed for full-range applications, it can also be paired with AudioQuest’s upcoming BigFoot BASS cable for bi-wire systems, offering a scalable path toward higher performance in serious loudspeaker setups.

Here is what AudioQuest say about the Lone Ranger

Featuring tried-and-true AudioQuest design elements along with ZERO-Tech for no characteristic impedance, Lone Ranger has significantly more conductor metal than its predecessors while being more physically manageable thanks to its positive and negative sides being housed in separate round constructions. The result is a quieter cable that delivers a more muscular overall presentation. Perfect for full-range applications, Lone Range can also be partnered with AudioQuest BigFoot BASS cable (coming early 2026) for BiWiring configurations.

Features

• Solid Conductors - Prevents stand-interaction, a major source of dynamic distortion in cables
• Perfect Surface Copper+ - AudioQuest's best copper. To the greatest extent presently possible, extreme-purity perfect-surface copper_ (PSC+) conductors minimize distortion caused by grain boundaries
• ZERO-Tech - eliminates the electrostatic field between the cable's high and low signal conductors, enabling linear radio frequency (RF) noise-dissipation, and uncompressed transients
• 72v Dielectric-Bias System (DBS) - saturates and polarizes insulation, allowing clear, dynamic sound against a quiet "black" background
• RF Drains - 4% silver-plating is applied to the high-quality copper base metal to improve noise-dissipation
• Noise Dissipation - Alternating layers of graphene, carbon-loaded synthetics, and metal "shield the shield" minimizing RF noise before it reaches the layer attached to ground
• Permanent Molecular Optimization - by optimally and efficiently applying a high-frequency AC signal many times greater than any audio system could possibly provide over any length of time, transient intermodulation distortion and the cable burn-in process are significantly reduced.
• Cold-Welded Connectors - Cold-welding avoids heat and distortion-causing solder. The bare parts are submerged (hung) in silver instead of tumbled in a lower-grade solution. Speaker breakouts and plug casings are synthetic not metal, to avoid inducing RF noise into the conductors

Slightly smaller than Brave Heart (11.6mm OD vs Brave Heart's 14.1mm OD per polarity) and boasting the same friendly construction that places positive and negative sides in discrete housings, Lone Ranger offers a remarkable sonic improvement over its predecessor characterized by eye-opening resolution and presence, realistic dynamic ease, and a surprisingly authoritative overall presentation.

Like its larger sibling, Lone Ranger meaningfully blurs the line between Folk Hero and Mythical-level sound quality. How is this achieved? Lone Ranger features many of the same upgrades that make Brave Heart such a thrilling success.

• Almost one-third more PSC+ Copper for lower impedance, smoother frequency response (regardless of speaker impedance curve), and a more muscular presentation.
• Superior polypropylene dielectric (insulation) linearizes and expands the bandwidth of noise-dissipation.
• Optimized dielectric reduces out-of-focus, harsh-sounding distortion due to distributed capacitance.
• Thicker Carbon-Loaded PVC, added Graphene layer, and 4% silver shield drain wires further improve RF-Noise Dissipation.

Permanent Molecular Optimization (PMO) does not replace the important aural benefit of playing music over extended periods of time. Music (modulated AC signal) slightly stresses the dielectric and connection interfaces, significantly benefitting cable performance.

PMO is a controlled extreme stressing of the materials — a near-death experience for them — that significantly and permanently (unlike running-in) helps the cable get out of the music's way.

All this is complemented by several important tried-and-true AudioQuest design elements. These include:

• Solid conductors prevent strand interaction.
• Direction-controlled conductors efficiently drain RF noise away from the vulnerable amplifier circuitry — toward where it will do the least or no harm.
• ZERO-Tech eliminates characteristic-impedance mismatches between the cable and the attached source and load, allowing power to flow seemingly unencumbered, presenting sound and music with remarkable ease.
• The constant DC potential (in contrast with running-in and PMO’s AC stressing) of AudioQuest’s 72v Dielectric-Bias System polarizes the dielectric (insulation), significantly reducing Dielectric-Noise (energy stored in the dielectric being released out of time and at other frequencies). DBS also linearizes (makes more consistent across a wide band) Radio-Frequency Noise-Dissipation.
• There is no metal in the cable dressings or plug barrels, which would reradiate and capacitive-couple RF-Noise into the cable. Cold-welded gas-tight connections are made to Red Copper spades or bananas.

And keep eyes and ears open for BigFoot — expected to reveal itself in early 2026. BigFoot BASS cable with Radio-Frequency Noise-Dissipation (RF/ND) will be the Bass cable complement to Lone Ranger. As wonderful as Brave Heart is for Full-Range loudspeakers, when the speakers offer the capability to BiWire, Lone Ranger on Treble and BigFoot on Bass will be the definitive answer to two very important questions:

• How do I BiWire in the Brave Heart price range?
• Is BiWiring worthwhile?

Specifications

• Please enter a quantity of 2 for a pair of cables for a pair of speakers
• Metal: Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+)
• Geometry: ZERO-Tech (No Characteristic Impedance)
• RF Drain Metal: Solid 4% Silver
• Noise-Dissipation: Graphene + Carbon Mesh-Network
• Plugs: Cold-Welded Hanging-Silver Directly Over Pure Red Copper

About AudioQuest

AudioQuest has been the largest cable supplier to the high-end specialist market for many years. AudioQuest is sold in several hundred outlets in the US and in over sixty countries. Bill Lowe (Founder) is especially pleased that this success has been possible despite his insistence that the foundation of the company, and the foundation of AudioQuest marketing, must be the performance of the product. In the audio world, many professionals have learned that it is not always convenient to listen to the products they sell … they might learn something they don’t want to know! Bill has always understood the challenge of basing the existence of AudioQuest on the performance of the product. However, to Bill, this is the only reasonable way to do business and the only acceptable way to combine his passion for music (and all things high performance), with his need to make a living.