3m QED Silver Anniversary XT Speaker Cable Terminated on both sides with 4 x Qed Airlock ABS Banana Plugs

The Airloc ABS is the latest evolution of QED's award winning plug. This is an excellent termination method to use with QED loudspeaker cables. QED developed Airloc, a solder-free, airtight perfect fusion . This 'cold weld' method allows the cable and plug to offer the optimum signal transfer and therefore, better sound quality.It also reduces contact resistance and a long-term performance.

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NEW STRENGTHENED PLUG

SPRING LOADED ‘FORTE’ BLADE IS DESIGNED TO FIT INTO SMALLER AND LARGER SOCKETS WITH EQUAL INSERTION FORCE TO MAXIMISE CONTACT AREA

24C GOLD PLATED

Plugs are gold plated to eliminate oxidization, ensuring a lifelong low resistance connection

AIRLOC is QED’s award winning loudspeaker cable termination method using specialist equipment. Put simply, this is the best termination method to use with QED loudspeaker cables. The science and engineering of loudspeaker cable doesn’t stop with the cable. To perform as the designer intended, the cable needs to have the very best termination, as sound quality can be adversely affected by using inferior connectors. QED developed AIRLOC a solder-free, airtight perfect fusion between the two metals of cable and plug. This ‘cold weld’ method allows the cable and plug to offer the optimum signal transfer and therefore, better sound quality. It also reduces contact resistance and ensures perfect long-term performance.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

HIGH PERFORMANCE LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE DIELECTRIC

Cuts down on the amount of audio signal energy lost due to cable capacitance

X-TUBE™ TECHNOLOGY

At low frequencies both X-Tube^TM and conventional stranded/solid core speaker cables convey signals in a linear way. However, at high frequencies, X-Tube^TMretains a near-linear signal transfer, whereas the conventional cable fails to conduct uniformly across the entire conductor area. The result is that X-Tube^TMdelivers greater fidelity across the audio spectrum which would other wise be lost in ordinary cables.

SILVER PLATED 99.999% OFC CONDUCTORS

Provides a low frequency path for the audio signal and delivers stunning high frequency detail

SPECIFICATIONS

Unique SPOFC triple braid 5 x 16 x 0.1mm

X-Tube™ technology

Jacket OD - 3.90mm

Cross-sectional area - 1.50mm²

Loop resistance - 0.021 Ω/m

Capacitance - 50pF/m

Inductance - 0.47 µH/m

Dissipation factor - 0.0006

Ideal for use in all installations

QED Lifetime Guarantee

X-TUBE TECHNOLOGY

At low frequencies both X-Tube^TM and conventional stranded/solid core speaker cables convey signals in a linear way. However, at high frequencies, X-Tube^TMretains a near-linear signal transfer, whereas the conventional cables fail to conduct uniformly across the entire conductor area.

In standard speaker cables at high frequencies current flow is highest at the periphery with rapidly deteriorating current density towards the centre of the conductor.

The effect of this is to reduce the actual cross sectional area of the cable at 15kHz to less than 75% of that at low frequencies. This results in higher distortion and compromises the performance of the cable.

X-Tube^TM with polycore technology exhibits much lower self-inductance and is therefore less affected by this problem. The polycore technology reduces loop inductance to levels only achievable using more costly and difficult to terminate cables.

The result is more high frequency detail, less distortion and greater performance.