AudioQuest Type 4 12ft Pair / Audioquest

Solid Long-Grain Copper Conductors

Carbon-Based Noise-Dissipation

Star-Quad Geometry

Spread-Spectrum Technology

The 4-Series of AudioQuest speakers cables may be the most successful in AudioQuests 30+ year history. Type 4's roots go all the way back to the late 80's. The fundamental geometry and conductor complement of Type 4 hasn't changed since 1995 ... because any change to the size or position of the 4-Series' 2-sized Spread-Spectrum conductor arrangement would reduce performance.SOLID LONG-GRAIN COPPER CONDUCTORS (LGC): Type 4s solid Long-Grain Copper allows a smoother and clearer sound than cables using typical OFHC (Oxygen-Free High-Conductivity) copper. OFHC is a general metal industry specification regarding loss without any concern for distortion. LGC has fewer oxides within the conducting material, less impurities, less grain boundaries, and definitively better performance. All four of Type 4s conductors are solid. Electrical and magnetic interaction between strands in a conventional cable is the single greatest source of distortion, often causing a somewhat harsh, dirty and confused sound. Solid conductors are the most important ingredients enabling Type 4s very clear sound. Whether a conductor is solid or stranded, skin-effect is a prime distortion mechanism in speaker cables. Type 4 very simply keeps this effect out of the audio range by using conductor sizes that are below the threshold for audible distortion.CARBON-BASED NOISE-DISSIPATION and CROSS-TALK-DISSIPATION SYSTEMS (INSULATION): The two negative conductors in Type 4 are insulated with partially conductive Carbo