AudioQuest Golden Gate
Very well made but pricey
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AudioQuest bases its cable designs on real-world testing lots of experimenting, listening, and tweaking. With its Golden Gate cables, AudioQuest has hit a "sweet spot" that puts high-end performance within the price range of many music lovers. These cables bring together some of AQ's most advanced designs and materials, for excellent sound quality from a cable that's relatively thin and lightweight.
One of the most important materials that goes into an audio cable is the metal used for its conductors the parts of the cable that actually carry the signal. The Golden Gate's conductors are made from a material called "Perfect-Surface Copper." It's a breakthrough cable technology that can translate into a not-so-subtle improvement sound quality, compared to lesser conductor materials. The conductor's solid (rather than stranded) metal composition and astonishingly smooth surface allow for optimal signal transfer with a minimum of distortion.
While many cables use a single path for both the ground and shield, AudioQuest uses a design they call "double-balanced asymmetrical geometry." This design separates the ground and shield paths for clean, quiet performance.
All the details of the cable's construction are well thought-out. For instance, the Golden Gate's connectors are cold-welded, rather than soldered, which eliminates a common source of distortion found in many other audio cables.
This cable is equipped with stereo mini (3.5mm) connectors at each end. Stereo RCA and mini-to-RCA versions are also available.
Great Rca cables ! Quality built and quality sound.
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Very well made but pricey
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Great Rca cables ! Quality built and quality sound.
Pros: Great cables, sound awesome and look good too !!
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solid performer
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It does what it supposed to do.
Pros: A good quality cable.
Cons: Expensive.
Golden Gate Series Stereo Audio Minijack Cable: The AudioQuest Golden Gate stereo audio minijack cable is terminated by a gold-plated male 3.5mm stereo connector on each end. The AudioQuest Golden Gate stereo audio minijack cable is available in the following lengths.
Solid Perfect-Surface Copper Conductors (PSC): Perfect-Surface Copper has an astonishingly smooth and pure surface. 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. Electrical and magnetic interaction between strands in a conventional cable is the greatest source of distortion, often causing a somewhat dirty, harsh sound. Solid conductors are fundamental toward achieving Golden Gate's very clean sound
Foamed-Polyethylene Insulation: Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. Golden Gate uses air-filled Foamed-Polyethylene Insulation on both conductors because air absorbs next to no energy and Polyethylene is low-loss and has a benign distortion profile. Thanks to all the air in Foamed-PE, it causes much less of the out-of-focus effect common to other materials.
Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation System (NDS): 100% shield coverage is easy; preventing captured RF Interference from modulating the equipment's ground reference requires AQ's Noise-Dissipation System. Noise-Dissipation System prevents a significant amount of RFI from reaching the equipment's ground plane.
Double-Balanced Asymmetrical Geometry: Purposely designed for single-ended applications, Double-Balanced Asymmetrical Geometry offers a relatively lower impedance on the ground for a richer, and more dynamic experience. While many single-ended cable designs use a single path for both the ground and the shield, Double-Balanced designs separate the two for cleaner, quieter performance.
Cold-Welded, Gold-Plated Plugs: This plug design allows for a connection devoid of solder, which is a common source of distortion. Because the ground shells are stamped instead of machined, the metal can be chosen for low distortion.
Directional: Arrows on the connectors indicate the preferred signal path from the source component to the input.
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Need a 3.5 mm cable. [ Scot Dec 21, 2018 ]
DX90 DAC, SonyPHA-3 DAC amp, Bowers and Wilkins headsets = Good connectors [ Scott Dec 18, 2017 ]
Needed a quality cable to go along with my Dragonfly [ Paul Jan 24, 2017 ]
Name brand reliability. [ Tyrone Aug 29, 2018 ]
needed longer length [ BRUCE C Aug 19, 2018 ]
Durable cable and gives clear sound, AudioQuest is a quality company. [ Hector Aug 18, 2016 ]
to digitize music from cassette tapes [ Jay Apr 22, 2017 ]
Needed quality cable for the distance. Can't go wrong with AudioQuest! [ Eric Feb 12, 2017 ]