AudioQuest 10 ft Single Aspen SBA with M-spades

Audioquest speaker cable.

This offering is for a Single cable ( For Center Channel )

Aspen 10 ft SBA with M spades.

SOLID PERFECT-SURFACE COPPER+/PERFECT-SURFACE COPPER (PSC+/PSC) CONDUCTORS:

Aspen uses a carefully finessed combination of high-purity

Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC), and extreme high-purity Perfect-Surface

Copper+ (PSC+) conductors in a Self-Shielding Double Counter-Spiral

HyperLitz design. Solid conductors prevent strand interaction, a major

source of distortion. Surface quality is critical because a conductor

can be considered as a rail-guide for both the electric fields within

a conductor, and for the magnetic fields outside the conductor. The

astonishingly smooth and pure Perfect-Surface nearly eliminates

harshness and greatly increases clarity compared to OFHC, OCC, 8N, and

other coppers. The superior purity of PSC+ further minimizes

distortion caused by grain boundaries, which exist within any metal

conductor.

DIELECTRIC-BIAS SYSTEM (DBS, US PAT #S 7,126,055 & 7,872,195 B1):

Insulation is an electrical barrier, and also a “dielectric” because

it is inside the conductor's magnetic field. All insulation slows down

and smears the signal inside. When insulation is unbiased, it causes

different amounts of delay for different frequencies and energy

levels, a real problem for very time-sensitive multi-octave audio.

AudioQuest's DBS creates a strong, stable electrostatic field that

saturates and polarizes (organizes) the molecules of the insulation.

Saturated (full) insulation absorbs less and therefore releases less

out-of-phase energy. Minimizing nonlinear time delays results in clearer

sound emerging from a “blacker” background. The DBS battery packs

will last for years. A test button and LED allow for the occasional

battery check.

DOUBLE COUNTER-SPIRAL GEOMETRY:

Aspen and the other AQ “Tree” Series cables have an inner circular array

of positive conductors spiraling in one direction. Around this inner

group, the negative conductors spiral in the opposite direction, which

makes possible the significant performance advantage of the positive

and negative conductors crossing each other instead of being parallel.

However, the critical need for positive and negative to have a fixed

non-changing relationship is ensured as the negative and positive

groups are two tubes with a perfectly consistent relationship.

The result is an astonishing clarity, like focusing a camera lens you

had no idea was so far out of focus.

CARBON-BASED NOISE-DISSIPATION AND CROSSTALK-DISSIPATION SYSTEM (INSULATION):

The negative conductors in Aspen are covered with partially conductive

Carbon-Loaded Polyethylene. This remarkable material damps

radio-frequency garbage from being fed back into the amplifier. The

sonic benefit is the same reduction in “hash” and improved

dimensionality that comes whenever RF interference is reduced in an

audio circuit. Another carbon layer also damps interaction between

positive and negative conductors, and an external 3-layer carbon-based

NDS System additionally absorbs external interference.

SPREAD-SPECTRUM TECHNOLOGY (SST):

Any single size or shape of conductor has a specific distortion

profile. Even though radially symmetrical conductors (solid or

tubular) have the fewest discontinuities, any particular size still

has a sonic signature. SST is a method for significantly reducing the

awareness of these character flaws by using a precise combination of

different size conductors. The different SST-determined conductor

sizes used in Aspen allow an exceptionally clear, clean, and dynamic

sound.

BIWIRING:
When possible, run separate

conductors or separate cables to the treble and bass halves of a

the speaker will considerably reduce distortion. BiWiring helps by keeping

the large magnetic fields associated with bass energy out of the treble

cable, allowing the delicate upper frequencies to travel a less

disturbed path, like keeping the big waves out of the water when you

swim. Although Aspen is an ideal Full-Range cable, it has also been

designed to make it possible to truly Single-BiWire. Many

multi-conductor cables claim to be good for BiWiring, but unless there

is real magnetic isolation between the bass and treble conductor

groups, dividing such cables into bass and treble can be worse

than keeping them together.

TERMINATIONS:

Aspen is prepared by Cold-Welding AudioQuest’s 1000 Series

Hanging-Silver Multi-Spades or Bananas. The plugs are plated directly

over pure Red Copper by submerging (hanging) the spades and bananas

into a vat of extreme-purity silver, resulting in a very thick

Direct-Silver Plate. There are no intermediary performance degrading

materials. Aspen's breakouts (where the cable divides into positive

and negative legs) are also special: Because a metal breakout would

disrupt the cable's magnetic fields, Aspen's breakouts are magnetically

invisible ABS.

DIRECTIONS:
Because all drawn

metal is directional, all audio cables are directional. AudioQuest

analog and digital audio cables are all controlled for correct

directionality. The best sound is made possible by following the “Amp”

and “Speaker” labels on Aspen's breakouts.

A combination of these major ingredients, and many more subtle details add up to explain how Aspen can sound so good.