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An Abnormally Superior Cable - Save with 'No Frills' Packaging!
Terminated with Premium Pangea Audio 'Locking Connectors'
Our AudioQuest Rocket 44 speaker cable with No Frills packaging is one of the best deals in a high quality cable that you'll find anywhere. Now it's an even better buy when you give your Rocket 44 a performance boost by ordering it with new premium Pangea Audio spade or banana connectors.
For high current flow and low resistance, these one-piece solid connectors from Pangea Audio are machined from 100% Tellurium Copper then coated with pure 24 Carat Gold. Other connectors may be shinier, but none are made from higher purity materials.
But great engineering doesn’t stop with the materials. Both connectors have a special spring-compression feature that locks them securely in place with little effort. They won’t easily loosen or slide out like ordinary connectors. Yes, they cost a bit more, but your connection security is worth it!
Expertly Hand Terminated
This 'Double-Star Quad' cable doesn't look normal on the outside, and it isn't normal on the inside, either. AudioQuest Rocket 44 offers amazingly clean and effortless performance, thanks to a combination of extraordinary materials and extremely refined design.
Each Rocket 44 cable is hand terminated by Audio Advisor's expert terminator, Randy Kaboos, who has over 20 years of termination experience. Then each cable is hand tested to insure quality.
Cables are shipped in a simple sealed plastic bag instead of a fancy box -- hence the name "No Frills" termination. You won't get a fancy box, but you will get a great sounding cable at an unheard of price!
Solid Conductors
All eight of Rocket 44's conductors are solid. Solid conductors prevent strand interaction, a major source of cable distortion. 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 Rocket 44's very clear sound. Whether a conductor is solid or stranded, skin effect is a prime distortion mechanism in speaker cables. Rocket 44 very simply keeps this effect out of the audio range by using conductor sizes that are below the threshold for audible distortion.
Extreme High-Purity Perfect-Surface Copper
Extreme high-purity Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC) minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries that exist within any metal conductor, eliminating harshness and greatly increasing clarity compared to all other conducting materials. PSS has an astonishingly smooth and pure surface. Proprietary metal processing technology protects the wire's surface at every stage of drawing and fabrication. When high-purity low-oxide copper is kept as soft, pure and smooth as possible, it becomes the wonderfully low distortion PSC conductor used in many AudioQuest models. PSC's extreme transparency is made possible by applying Perfect Surface Technology to ultra pure solid copper. PSC is the ultimate example of how far this remarkable technology can take us.
Spread Spectrum Technology (SST)
Any single size or shape of conductor has a characteristic distortion profile. Even though radially symmetrical conductors (solid round or tubular) have the fewest discontinuities, each size still has a sonic signature. Rocket 44 uses a precise combination of different size conductors in order to significantly reduce the audibility of these character flaws.
Double Star-Quad Geometry
The relationship between conductors defines a cable's most basic electrical values (capacitance and inductance). However, even when those variables are kept in a reasonable balance, the relationship between conductors can be varied in ways that greatly affect the sound. The Double Star-Quad construction of Rocket 44 allows for significantly better dynamic contrast and information intelligibility than if the same conductors were run in parallel.
The specific 4-cross geometry used in each half of Rocket 44 maximizes this advantage. In addition, Rocket 44 is an exceptional Single-BiWire cable. When the halves are separated at the speaker end, the Double StarQuad design turns Rocket 44 into a true Double-BiWire set thanks to the magnetic autonomy of each star-quad. When separated the Dual Star-Quads let Rocket 44 be a maximum performance Double-BiWire in a single cable.
