Features

Audioquest Yukon RCA: Connect audio source components to amplifiers and receivers with this Audioquest Yukon RCA analog-audio cable, meticulously designed for exceptional performance. Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+) conductors minimize distortion, while Polyethylene Air-Tube insulation preserves dynamic contrasts, and a Carbon Mesh-Network Noise-Dissipation efficiently dissipates high-frequency noise. The result is cleaner, clearer, more naturally beautiful music.

• Solid PSC+ with Triple-Balanced Geometry: Solid conductors prevent strand-interaction, a major source of dynamic distortion in cables. The Yukon RCA cable employs Audioquest's best copper, Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+). Perfect-Surface Copper+ solid conductors minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries and maximizes linear RF Noise-Dissipation. AQ's Triple-Balanced Geometry uses a separate ground-reference conductor, so the cable's shield is never used as an inferior conductor. This advanced 3-conductor design ensures that the positive and negative signals have equally superior, low-distortion conducting paths.
• Carbon Based 3-Layer Noise Dissipation: 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.
• Polyethylene Air-Tube Insulation: 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.
• Direction Controlled Conductors: 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. The correct direction is determined by listening to every batch of metal conductors used in every Audioquest audio cable. When applicable, arrows are clearly marked on the connectors to ensure superior sound quality. For most models of AQ cable, the arrows not only indicate the direction that optimizes metal-directionality as part of Noise-Dissipation, but also indicates non-symmetrical attachment of shield and GND in order to optimize full-system performance. A fundamental aspect of Audioquest's multifaceted Noise-Dissipation technology, Direction-Controlled Conductors ensure induced noise is dissipated and drained properly.