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AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series Dragon 4.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

Not only is Dragon the best interconnect AudioQuest has ever made, it’s quite possibly the best the world has ever seen or heard. With its ultimate combination of world-class materials and cutting-edge Noise-Dissipation technologies, Dragon comes as close as presently possible to AudioQuest’s sonic ideal — completely invisible cable. 

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series Dragon 5.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series Dragon 6.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series ThunderBird 4.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

If not for its Mythical siblings — FireBird and Dragon — ThunderBird might be the best cable the world has ever heard. Among other tried-and-true AudioQuest materials and design techniques, ThunderBird features solid directionally controlled conductors of our finest copper — Perfect Surface Copper+ (PSC+) — Copper-Plated RF-Draining Barrels, and our Level-6 Noise-Dissipation System.

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series ThunderBird 0.75 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series ThunderBird 1.5 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series ThunderBird 0.5 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series FireBird 2.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

FireBird may sit in the middle of our Mythical Creatures family, but there’s no Middle-Child Syndrome to be found here. This cable is a beautiful destination in its own right, drawing remarkably close to the otherworldly performance of our Dragon flagship but at a much lower cost.

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series FireBird 2.5 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series FireBird 3.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series ThunderBird 5.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series Dragon 2.5 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series Dragon 3.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series Dragon 1.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series Dragon 1.5 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series Dragon 2.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series FireBird 0.75 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series FireBird 1.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series FireBird 1.5 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series ThunderBird 2.5 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series ThunderBird 2.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series ThunderBird 3.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

Not only is Dragon the best interconnect AudioQuest has ever made, it’s quite possibly the best the world has ever seen or heard. With its ultimate combination of world-class materials and cutting-edge Noise-Dissipation technologies, Dragon comes as close

AudioQuest® Dragon 0.5 Meter XLR Interconnect Cable

Not only is Dragon the best interconnect AudioQuest has ever made, it’s quite possibly the best the world has ever seen or heard.

With its ultimate combination of world-class materials and cutting-edge Noise-Dissipation technologies, Dragon comes as close as presently possible to AudioQuest’s sonic ideal — completely invisible cable. It features Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS) conductors, ZERO-Tech, FEP Air-Tube insulation, Silver-Plated RF-Draining Barrels, and Level-7 Noise-Dissipation in which even the shield-drains are 100% PSS.

No expense has been spared, no detail neglected.

At once a direct descendent of critically acclaimed designs from our storied past and something completely and undeniably new, Dragon sets its predecessors on fire and blows away their ashes.

All Mythical Creature interconnects are available with custom-made RCA and XLR terminations.

ZERO-Tech (No Characteristic Impedance) for Linear, Wide-Bandwidth Noise-Dissipation

The only way to avoid characteristic-impedance mismatch-effects between a cable and its attached source and load circuits is to prevent the cable from having a characteristic-impedance. ZERO-Tech succeeds by eliminating the electrostatic field between the cable’s high and low signal conductors, enabling linear (consistent octave to octave) Radio-Frequency (RF) Noise-Dissipation, and uncompressed transients. In order to preserve ZERO-Tech’s complete isolation between signal conductors, a Dual-72v DBS pack is included for XLR cables.

Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS) Conductors

Solid conductors prevent electrical and magnetic strand-interaction. PSS Solid-Silver minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries and maximizes linear RF Noise-Dissipation.

Positive conductors benefit from almost no contact between metal and its FEP insulation, which is notable for its superior dielectric constant and minimal signal interference. Negative conductors benefit from intentionally “lossy insulation” — no air and no FEP helps maximize the negative connection’s different job.

Insulation is also a dielectric that can act like a shunt-filter. Biasing minimizes dielectric-noise and linearizes the filter, significantly improving wide-bandwidth dissipation of induced RF noise.

Level 7 Noise-Dissipation: PSS Drains + ZERO-Tech + 72v DBS + Carbon/Graphene Mesh-Network + Direction-Controlled

Radio-Frequency Noise from cellular, WiFi, and satellites is everywhere. AQ’s Level 7 Linear Noise-Dissipation includes a carbon & graphene resistive mesh-network, direction-controlled conductors, 72v DBS, and Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS) drain wires, significantly minimizing RF Noise masking effects.

AudioQuest’s finest plugs feature superior Hanging-Silver (not tumbled) directly over extreme-purity Red Copper.

Grounded Silver-Plated Barrels maximize Noise-Dissipation by preventing a metal barrel from capacitively coupling RF to the conductors.

Signal-Conducting Metal: Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS)

RF-Draining Metal: Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS)

Geometry: ZERO-Tech (No Characteristic Impedance)

Dielectric: FEP Air-Tubes for minimal signal interference

Dielectric-Bias System: 72v DBS (RCA); Dual-72v DBS (XLR)

Plug Contacts: Hanging-Silver over Red-Copper

AudioQuest® Dragon 0.75 Meter XLR Interconnect Cable

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series FireBird 4.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series FireBird 5.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series FireBird 6.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series FireBird 0.5 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series ThunderBird 6.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series ThunderBird 1.0 m XLR Analog Interconnect

FireBird may sit in the middle of our Mythical Creatures family, but there’s no Middle-Child Syndrome to be found here. This cable is a beautiful destination in its own right, drawing remarkably close to the otherworldly performance of our Dragon flagship

Level 6 Noise-Dissipation: ZERO-Tech + 72v DBS + Carbon/Graphene Mesh-Network + Direction-Controlled

Radio-Frequency Noise from cellular, WiFi, and satellites is everywhere. AQ’s Level 6 Linear Noise-Dissipation includes a carbon & graphene resistive mesh-network, direction-controlled conductors, 72v DBS, and Silver-Plated drain wires, significantly minimizing RF Noise masking effects.

If not for its Mythical siblings — FireBird and Dragon — ThunderBird might be the best cable the world has ever heard. Among other tried-and-true AudioQuest materials and design techniques, ThunderBird features solid directionally controlled conductors of

Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+) Conductors

Solid conductors prevent electrical and magnetic strand-interaction. PSC+ Solid-Copper minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries and maximizes linear RF Noise-Dissipation.

Grounded Copper-Plated Barrels maximize Noise-Dissipation by preventing a metal barrel from capacitively coupling RF to the conductors.

Our Triple-Balanced Geometry uses a separate ground-reference conductor, so the cable's shield is never used as an inferior conductor. Proprietary metal-processing technology protects the wire's surface at every stage of drawing and fabrication.

AudioQuest® Red River Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (0.75 M/2'5")

Solid Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC) Conductors

Triple-Balanced Geometry (Separate Ground-Reference Conductor)

North America has two Red Rivers, North and South. Red River South has been home to many peoples; it once was the border between the US and colonial Spain, and today forms part of the border between the rival states of Texas and Oklahoma.

Red River North forms in a confluence of rivers in North Dakota and Minnesota, but its history is Canada’s. The Red River North’s early settlers were the Métis, whose ancestry was French and aboriginal Canadian. The Métis in 1869 began an uprising known as the Red River Rebellion, which challenged the Canadian government, eventually leading to the formation of the province of Manitoba.

Since the beginning, AudioQuest has pioneered the use of superior metals, yet even we were surprised by the huge leap in performance attained through the astonishingly smooth and pure surface of Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC). PSC clearly outperforms previous AQ metals that cost over ten times as much. Proprietary metal-processing technology protects the wire's surface at every stage of drawing and fabrication. When high-purity low-oxide copper is kept as soft, pure, and smooth as possible, it becomes a wonderfully low-distortion conductor. In a conventional cable, electrical and magnetic interaction between strands is one of the greatest sources of distortion, often causing a somewhat harsh, dirty sound. Solid conductors are fundamental toward achieving Red River’s very clean, natural sound.

It's easy to accomplish 100% shield coverage. Preventing captured Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from modulating the equipment's ground reference requires AQ's Noise-Dissipation System (NDS). Traditional shield systems typically absorb and then drain noise/RF energy to component ground, modulating and distorting the critical "reference" ground plane, which in turn causes a distortion of the signal. NDS "shields the shield," absorbing and reflecting most of this noise/RF energy before it reaches the layer attached to ground.

Our Triple-Balanced Geometry uses a separate ground-reference conductor, so the cable's shield is never used as an inferior conductor. Whether prepared with RCA or XLR plugs, the cable's three conductors ensure that the positive and negative signals have equally superior, low-distortion conducting paths.

This plug design allows for a connection devoid of solder, which is a common source of distortion. Instead of solder, the process employs a high-pressure technique. Because the ground shells are stamped instead of machined, the metal used can be chosen for low distortion instead of machinability.

AudioQuest® Red River Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (1.0 M/3'3")

AudioQuest® Red River Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (1.5 M/4'11")

AudioQuest® Red River Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (2.0 M/6'6")

AudioQuest® Red River Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (3.0 M/9'10")

AES/EBU, developed jointly by the Audio Engineering Society and the European Broadcast Union, established a two-channel digital standard for interconnecting digital devices in the professional world. But, AES/EBU also has its application in the domestic e

AudioQuest® Carbon 0.75 m AES/EBU XLR Digital Cable

Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications, like HDMI audio and video. These signals, being such a high frequency, travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor. As the surface is made of high-purity silver, the performance is very close to that of a solid silver cable, but priced much closer to solid copper cable. This is an incredibly cost effective way of manufacturing very high-quality HDMI cables.

Hard-Cell Foam (HCF) Insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry. Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy. Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. Hard-Cell Foam Insulation is similar to the Foamed-PE used in our more affordable Bridges & Falls cables, and is nitrogen-injected to create air pockets. Because nitrogen (like air) does not absorb energy and therefore does not release any energy from or into the conductor, distortion is reduced. In addition, the stiffness of the material allows the cable's conductors to maintain a stable relationship along the cable's full length, producing a stable impedance character and further minimizing distortion.

It's easy to accomplish 100% shield coverage. Preventing captured Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from modulating the equipment's ground reference requires AQ's Noise-Dissipation System (NDS). Traditional shield systems typically absorb and then drain noise/RF energy to component ground, modulating and distorting the critical "reference" ground plane, which in turn causes a distortion of the signal. NDS's alternating layers of metal and carbon-loaded synthetics "shield the shield," absorbing and reflecting most of this noise/RF energy before it reaches the layer attached to ground.

Cold-Welded, Hanging-Silver Directly Over Pure Purple Copper Terminations

AES/EBU, developed jointly by the Audio Engineering Society and the European Broadcast Union, established a two-channel digital standard for interconnecting digital devices in the professional world. But, AES/EBU also has its application in the domestic environment as well. While AES/EBU can be single-ended, balanced, or optical, here we refer to the balanced-digital interconnect.

AudioQuest®  Carbon 1.5 m AES/EBU XLR Digital Cable

AudioQuest® Carbon 3.0 m AES/EBU XLR Digital Cable

AudioQuest® Diamond 0.75 m AES/EBU XLR Digital Cable

Perfect-Surface Technology applied to extreme-purity silver provides unprecedented clarity and dynamic contrast. Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS) is AudioQuest's highest-quality metal. Solid conductors prevent strand interaction, a major source of cable distortion. Extremely high-purity Perfect-Surface Silver minimizes distortion caused by the grain boundaries that exist within any metal conductor, nearly eliminating harshness and greatly increasing clarity compared to OFHC, OCC, 8N and other coppers.

Carbon-Based 7-Layer Noise Dissipation System (NDS)

Cold-Welded, Hanging-Silver Directly Over Pure Red Copper Terminations

AudioQuest® Diamond 1.5 m AES/EBU XLR Digital Cable

Solid conductors prevent both electrical and magnetic interaction strand-to-strand interaction, major sources of distortion. Hard-Cell Foam (HCF) Insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry.

AudioQuest® MacKenzie Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (3.0 M/9'10")

Originally named Disappointment for dashing Alexander Mackenzie’s hope that it would lead to the Pacific rather than the Arctic Ocean, the Mackenzie River is Canada’s largest, longest river system. Traversing 2,635 miles, it flows through a vast network of lakes, boreal forests and arctic tundra. Mackenzie’s many tributaries cover portions of three provinces—British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan—and two territories, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Known as “The Amazon of the North,” Mackenzie’s sparsely populated basin remains one of the great unspoiled natural areas in the world.

Solid conductors prevent both electrical and magnetic interaction strand-to-strand interaction, major sources of distortion. Surface quality is critical because a conductor can be considered as a rail-guide for both the fields within a conductor, and for the magnetic fields that extend outside the conductor. The astonishingly smooth and pure surface of all AudioQuests’s Perfect-Surface metals nearly eliminates harshness and greatly increases clarity compared to lesser materials. Extremely high-purity Perfect-Surface Copper+ further minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries, which exist within any metal conductor, nearly eliminating harshness and greatly increasing clarity compared to OFHC, OCC, 8N and other coppers.

Carbon-Based 3-Layer Noise-Dissipation System (NDS)

AudioQuest® Red River Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (0.5 M/1'7")

AudioQuest® MacKenzie Pair Of  XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (0.5 M/1'7")

AudioQuest® MacKenzie Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (0.75 M/2'5")

AudioQuest® MacKenzie Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (1.0 M/3'3")

AudioQuest® MacKenzie Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (1.5 M/4'11")

AudioQuest® MacKenzie Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (2.0 M/6'6")

Solid conductors prevent both electrical and magnetic interaction strand-to-strand interaction, major sources of distortion. Our Triple-Balanced Geometry uses a separate ground-reference conductor, so the cable's shield is never used as an inferior conduc

AudioQuest® Yukon Pair Of XLR 0.5 m Interconnect Analog Audio Cables 

Solid Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC+) Conductors

Meaning “Big River” in Athabaskan, the Yukon River starts with the Llewellyn Glacier as its source in British Columbia, and empties into Alaska’s Bering Sea. It may have been the first immigration route for North America’s first indigenous humans, and was certainly the principle means of travel during the 1896-1903 Klondike Gold Rush. Paddle-wheel riverboats continued as the dominant form of transportation along the river until the 1950s when the Klondike Highway was completed. King Salmon from the Yukon River remain an elusive, but prized delicacy.

Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy. Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. AudioQuest, however, uses Polyethylene Air-Tube Insulation on both conductors, for increased geometry stabilization and improved clarity. Because air absorbs next to no energy and Polyethylene is low-loss and has a benign distortion profile, Polyethylene Air-Tube Insulation, with its high air content, causes much less of the out-of-focus effect common to other materials.

Solid conductors prevent both electrical and magnetic interaction strand-to-strand interaction, major sources of distortion. Our Triple-Balanced Geometry uses a separate ground-reference conductor, so the cable's shield is never used as an inferior conductor.

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AudioQuest® Carbon 0.75 m AES/EBU XLR Digital Cable

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AudioQuest® Diamond 0.75 m AES/EBU XLR Digital Cable

AudioQuest® Diamond 1.5 m AES/EBU XLR Digital Cable

AudioQuest® Diamond 3.0 m AES/EBU XLR Digital Cable

AudioQuest® MacKenzie Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (0.5 M/1'7")

AudioQuest® MacKenzie Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (0.75 M/2'5")

AudioQuest® MacKenzie Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (1.0 M/3'3")

AudioQuest® MacKenzie Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (1.5 M/4'11")

AudioQuest® MacKenzie Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (2.0 M/6'6")

AudioQuest® MacKenzie Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (3.0 M/9'10")

AudioQuest® Dragon 0.5 Meter XLR Interconnect Cable

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series FireBird 0.5 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Mythical Creatures Series ThunderBird 0.5 m XLR Analog Interconnect

AudioQuest® Red River Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (0.5 M/1'7")

AudioQuest® Red River Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (0.75 M/2'5")

AudioQuest® Red River Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (1.0 M/3'3")

AudioQuest® Red River Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (1.5 M/4'11")

AudioQuest® Red River Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (2.0 M/6'6")

AudioQuest® Red River Pair Of XLR Interconnect Analog Audio Cables (3.0 M/9'10")

AudioQuest® Yukon Pair Of XLR 0.5 m Interconnect Analog Audio Cables

AudioQuest® Yukon Pair Of XLR 0.75 m Interconnect Analog Audio Cables

AudioQuest® Yukon Pair Of XLR 1.0 Interconnect Analog Audio Cables

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