AudioQuest Yukon XLR

AudioQuest Yukon XLR

Price is per pair. Also available as single cable (for e.g. Center channel or Subwoofer) for 50% of the pair price.

MASSIVE PERFECT-SURFACE COPPER + conductors (PSC+): Perfect-Surface Copper+ has an amazingly smooth and clean surface. Patented metal-processing technologies protect the surface of the conductor at every stage of the manufacturing process, from drawing to production. When high-purity copper with few oxides is kept as soft, pure and smooth as possible, you get a fantastic PSC+ conductor with low distortion. The result is a sound quality that is even more focused and simply even less in the way. For more than 30 years, AudioQuest has pioneered the use of superior metals, but even we were surprised by this huge jump in performance made possible by Perfect-Surface technology. PSC+ clearly outperforms previously available copper metals, regardless of price. All Yukon conductors are solid. Electrical and magnetic interaction between the wires in a conventional cable is the main source of distortion, often resulting in a somewhat ragged and harsh sound. Solid conductors are fundamental to the Yukon's very clean sound.

POLYETHYLENE AIR-TUBE INSULATION: Any solid adjacent to a conductor is actually part of a non-perfect circuit. Cable insulation and circuit board materials absorb energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and released again as distortion. Yukon uses Air-Tube insulation for all conductors because air absorbs virtually no energy and Polyethylene has little loss and also has a favorable deformation profile. PE Air-Tube insulation causes far fewer out-of-focus effects than other materials.

CARBON-BASED 3-LAYER NOISE-DISSIPATION SYSTEM (NDS): 100% shielding is easy. Preventing captured RF interference from modulating the equipment's ground potential requires AQ's Noise-Dissipation System. Metal- and carbon-enriched plastics prevent much of the captured RFI from reaching equipment grounding.

TRIPLE-BALANCED GEOMETRY: The three conductors in the "Triple Balanced" Yukon cables guarantee that regardless of whether they are terminated with RCA or XLR plugs, the positive and negative signals both have a conductor with low distortion. The 100% shielding is never used as an inferior conductor.

COLD-WELDED DIRECT SILVER-PLATED PURE "PURPLE-COPPER" PLUGS: This plug design allows a connection to be made without solder, a common source of distortion. Because the plugs are pressed rather than machined, a metal with low distortion can be chosen without having to consider machinability. Purple-copper offers a cleaner, brighter sound than the nickel-plated or OFHC metals typically used in competing manufacturers' plugs.