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The Absolute Sound 2024 Editors’ Choice Award

The 2024 March issue of The Absolute Sound includes the magazine’s annual Editors’ Choice Awards, given to products its editors believe are easy to recommend — products they would happily own and quickly recommend to family and friends.

Key Features & Technology Explained

Solid Conductors

Solid conductors prevent strand-interaction, a major source of dynamic distortion in cables.

Metal

AudioQuest’s highest-quality metal. Perfect Surface Silver (PSS) minimises distortion caused by grain boundaries and maximises linear RF Noise-Dissipation.

RF Drains

Direction-controlled Solid PSS shield conductors maximises drain RF noise from the line and neutral shields to ground via the third “ground” pin. The net result is powerful, dynamic, and immersive.

Noise Dissipation

Alternating layers of graphene, carbon-loaded synthetics, and metal “shield the shield”, minimising RF noise before it reaches the layer attached to ground.

Technology

ZERO-Tech eliminates the electrostatic field between the cable’s high and low signal conductors, enabling linear Radio Frequency (RF) Noise-Dissipation, and uncompressed transients.

Technology

72v Dielectric-Bias System (DBS) saturates and polarises insulation, allowing clear, dynamic sound against a quiet “black” background.

Insulation

Almost no contact between conductors and insulation reduces smearing and preserves dynamics.

Direction Controlled

All conductors controlled for RF-noise directionality.

DESCRIPTION

Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS) Conductors
Minimizes distortion and maximizes linear RF Noise-Dissipation by preventing electrical and magnetic strand interaction.

Level 7 Noise-Dissipation
Includes PSS drains, ZERO-Tech, 72v DBS, carbon/graphene mesh-network, and direction-controlled conductors to significantly minimize RF Noise.

ZERO-Tech
Eliminates characteristic-impedance mismatch, enabling linear RF Noise-Dissipation and uncompressed transients. Includes Dual-72v DBS pack for complete isolation.

72v Dielectric-Bias System (DBS)
Minimizes dielectric noise and linearizes the filter, improving wide-bandwidth RF noise dissipation.

FEP Air-Tube Insulation
Positive conductors have minimal contact with FEP insulation for superior signal quality. Negative conductors use lossy insulation to maximize the connection's performance.

Copper-Plated RF-Draining Barrels
Prevent RF coupling to conductors, maximizing Noise-Dissipation.

Hanging-Silver over Red Copper Plugs
Ensures uncompromised signal transfer with superior Hanging-Silver directly over high-purity Red Copper.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Metal
Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS)

Noise Dissipation
Graphene/Carbon Mesh-Network + 72v DBS + PSS Drains

Geometry
ZERO-Tech

Insulation
FEP Air-Tubes

Terminations
Hanging-Silver over Red Copper

Signal Type
Analog

Metal

Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS)

ZERO: Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+) / BASS: Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+)

Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS)

Noise Dissipation

Graphene/Carbon Mesh-Network + 72v DBS + PSS Drains

Graphene/Carbon Mesh-Network + 72v DBS

Graphene/Carbon Mesh-Network + 72v DBS

Geometry

ZERO-Tech

ZERO-Tech

ZERO-Tech