Description
AudioQuest Husky XLR Subwoofer Cable
Use the AudioQuest Husky XLR Subwoofer Cable to connect amplifiers, receivers, soundbars, and AVRs to a broad range of subwoofers.
Solid 5% Silver conductors minimize distortion, Polyethylene Air-Tubes preserves dynamic contrasts, and a Carbon-Based Multi-Layer Noise-Dissipation efficiently dissipates high-frequency noise. The result is clearer, naturally beautiful music, intelligible dialog, and thrilling sound effects.
Features
- Solid conductors prevent strand-interaction, a major source of dynamic distortion in cables.
- 5% Silver-Plating is applied to AudioQuest’s Long-Grain Copper (LGC) conductors to improve Noise-Dissipation.
- Alternating layers of metal and carbon-loaded synthetics “shield the shield,” absorbing and reflecting most RF energy before it reaches the layer attached to ground.
- 72v Dielectric-Bias System (DBS) saturates and polarizes insulation, allowing clear, dynamic sound against a quiet “black” background.
- Polyethylene Air-Tube’s low-loss, high-air content design minimizes the out-of-focus effect seen in other materials, ensuring optimal performance.
- All conductors controlled for RF-noise directionality.
Solid 5% Silver Conductors
Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter.
Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications. These signals, being such a high frequency, travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor. As the surface is made of high-purity silver, the performance is very close to that of a solid silver cable, but priced much closer to solid copper cable. This is an incredibly cost effective way of manufacturing very high-quality subwoofer cables.
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 (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion.
All of Boxer’s conductors use PE Air-Tube Insulation because air absorbs next to no energy, and Polyethylene is low-loss and has a benign distortion profile. PE Air-Tube Insulation causes much less of the out-of-focus effect common to other materials.
Dielectric-Bias System (DBS)
All insulation slows down the signal on the conductor inside.
When insulation is unbiased, it slows down parts of the signal differently, a big problem for very time-sensitive multi-octave audio. AudioQuest’s DBS creates a strong, stable electrostatic field which saturates and polarizes (organizes) the molecules of the insulation. This minimizes both energy storage in the insulation and the multiple nonlinear time-delays that occur.
Sound appears from a surprisingly black background with unexpected detail and dynamic contrast. The DBS battery packs will last for years. A test button and LED allow for the occasional battery check.
Carbon-Based 4-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. Metal and Carbon-Loaded synthetics prevent most RFI from reaching the equipment’s ground plane.
Triple-Balanced Geometry
The three conductors in “Triple-Balanced” Husky cables ensure that whether prepared with RCA or XLR plugs, the positive and negative signals have equally low-distortion conducting paths. The 100% coverage shield is never used as an inferior conductor.
Cold-Welded Hanging-Silver Directly Over Pure Red Copper System
This plug design enables a perfect heat-free connection between cable and plug.
The connection between the plug and conductors is made using AQ’s Cold-Welded System, which provides a superior connection that ensures that the structural integrity of the conductor is kept completely intact. The Cold-Welded System refers to a combination of high pressure at the point of contact and the use of copper- or silver-impregnated paste. (Boxer’s silver conductors get silver paste.)
Grounding
Sometimes there is a hum problem unless the subwoofer and AV receiver (or surround-sound processor) are attached to each other using a separate wire. If your system has a hum problem, try attaching the little spade-lug tails to the metal chassis of the subwoofer amplifier and to the chassis of the sending component. Usually, this extra wire will not be needed.
Specifications
| Metal | Solid 5% Silver |
| Noise Dissipation | Carbon-Based Multi-Layer + 72v DBS |
| Geometry | Triple-Balanced |
| Terminations | Cold-Welded, Hanging-Silver Directly Over Red Copper |
| Signal Type | Analog |
| Cable Length | 2 m = 20m |
| Jacket | Black PVC with Blue Stripes CL3/FT4 |
| Sold As | Single Cable |
