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

Lone Ranger Full-Range ZERO-Tech Speaker Cable, by AudioQuest.

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 for Bi-Wiring configurations.

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.

Features

ZERO-Tech (No Characteristic Impedance) - Eliminating any electrostatic field between the cable’s high and low signal conductors, enabling uncompressed current transfer. All-important transient current is unrestricted, and RF-Noise Dissipation is linearized (consistent octave to octave).

Solid Conductors (PSC+) - High-purity PSC+ conductors prevent strand interaction, a major source of ear-fatiguing transient intermodulation distortion. The astonishingly smooth and pure PSC+ further eliminates harshness and greatly increases clarity compared to OFHC, OCC, 8N and other premium coppers.

4% Silver - 4% silver plating is applied to the high-quality copper base metal to improve noise dissipation.

Graphene-Based 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.

72v Dielectric-Bias System (DBS) with RF Noise-Trap - Insulation is also a dielectric that acts like a shunt-filter. Biasing the dielectric both minimizes dielectric-noise and linearizes the filter, significantly improving wide-bandwidth dissipation of induced noise. 4% Silver Shield Drains: Significantly aid in the efficient dissipation of RF-Noise.

Cold-Welded Connectors - Cold-Welding avoids the introduction of heat and distortion-causing materials like 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.

Directionality - All drawn metal strands or conductors have a non-symmetrical, and therefore directional, grain structure. AudioQuest controls the resulting RF impedance variation so that noise is drained away from where it will cause distortion. A fundamental aspect of AudioQuest’s multifaceted Noise-Dissipation technology, Direction-Controlled Conductors ensure induced noise is dissipated and drained properly.

Specifications

• Metal: Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+)
• Geometry: ZERO-Tech (No Characteristic Impedance)
• Gauge: 2.08 mm2
• RF Drain Metal: Solid 4% Silver
• Noise-Dissipation: Graphene + Carbon Mesh-Network
• Jacket: Black on Black Nylon Braid

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