AudioQuest
The broadest range we carry by some distance, from an affordable HDMI cable up to serious high end. The brand to start with if you want one name covering an entire system.
About AudioQuest
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AudioQuest's engineering, from solid-core conductors to DBS
Bill Low started AudioQuest in Irvine, California in 1980 selling cable out of the boot of a car, and the company still rests on the same set of engineering positions. They have been unusually consistent about them, which is rare in a field where fashion moves quickly.
The first is solid-core conductors rather than stranded. Stranded cable has thousands of tiny contact points between strands, and AudioQuest's view is that current moving between them is a source of distortion. Solid core removes the problem at the cost of flexibility, which is why an AudioQuest cable feels stiffer than most.
The second is metal purity and surface quality. Long-Grain Copper, Perfect-Surface Copper and Perfect-Surface Silver are AudioQuest's own conductor grades, and moving up the range is largely a matter of moving through them.
The third is the Dielectric-Bias System. A small battery pack maintains a charge on the insulation so it is not being asked to form and collapse a field along with the music signal. It is AudioQuest's answer to a problem most cable makers address by changing insulation material instead.
AudioQuest also make the DragonFly portable DACs, the Niagara power conditioners and Storm series mains cables developed under Garth Powell, and a well-regarded set of AV care products.
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AudioQuest name their ranges by cable type rather than running one ladder across the catalogue, so the speaker cable equivalent of a Cinnamon HDMI is not called Cinnamon. The metals run through the digital cables, Rocket and Folk Heroes cover speaker cable, and Bridges, Falls and Rivers cover analogue interconnects. Mythical Creatures is the only naming that runs across every type.
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From£62.46Ex. VATAudioQuest USB Type-C cables featuring conductor materials and construction techniques that have allowed AQ’s other USB cables to achieve “Best-In-Class” recognition worldwide.
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From£166.62Ex. VAT
Following on from the success of the Storm Series NRG power cables (Thunder, Tornado, Hurricane & Dragon), AudioQuest have utilised trickle down techniques to create a new series of affordable, entry level NRG power cables. Featuring the excellent Noise-Dissipation technology employed in the Storm Series, this new range of NRG-Y and NRG-Z cables outperform their old NRG-X and NRG-1/1.5/2 counterparts by a landslide. The NRG-Z2 replaces the NRG-1.5 however it outperforms previous higher models.
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AudioQuest Niagara 1200 Noise-Dissipation System Mains ConditionerSKU: NIAGARA1200UK-1
(8 reviews)From£915.83Ex. VATLike the Niagaras 1000, 5000 and 7000, the Niagara 1200 uses capacitor forming technologies that vastly improve linearity and minimize distortion, ultra-low resistance solid-core wiring optimized for low-noise directionality, and low-impedance AC inlet and outlet contacts with heavy Hanging-Silver plating over high-purity Beryllium Copper for superior noise dissipation.
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£21.95Inc. VATEC 90/2 bends opposite the ground pin. Perfect for those tight installations which require strain relief with no sacrifice in performance on your high-performance power cables. -
£16.62Ex. VATAudioQuest Hard RCA Splitter -
£19.12Ex. VATAudioQuest FLX-X RCA Splitter RCA (Male) to 2 RCA (Female) -
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AudioQuest Carbon USB 3.0 Type A to Type Micro B Data CableSKU: AQ Carbon USB 3.0 A-Micro B
(7 reviews)From£157.50Ex. VATFor 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 an HD video. -
From£66.62Ex. VATAudioQuest Cinnamon Digital Optical cable is constructed with low-dispersion Higher-Purity Fibers and precision polished fiber ends all contained within a black/red woven weave jacket.
Please note: this cable comes with a 3.5mm mini Toslink adaptor attached to one end. Please remove this to use a standard Toslink connection at both ends.
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£25.00Inc. VATType 5's Low-Distortion & Low-Noise speaker cable is essentially Type 4 with better metal, and with conductors that are a little farther apart, reducing interaction between adjacent conductors by 35%. -
From£62.46Ex. VATAudioQuest USB Type-C cables featuring conductor materials and construction techniques that have allowed AQ’s other USB cables to achieve “Best-In-Class” recognition worldwide.
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£54.17Ex. VATAll eight of Rocket 33’s conductors are solid. Solid conductors prevent strand interaction, a major source of cable distortion. -
£33.29Ex. VATTo reduce the amount of RF interference entering your system we recommend "capping" all unused XLR inputs.
