Stereophile Magazine Recommended Component
Forget the Fancy Box and Save a Lot
Excellent-value AudioQuest Type 4 gets the "Recommended Component" nod from Stereophile. Other reviewers are crazy about it, too. "If you've gotten the impression that I liked AudioQuest's Type 4 speaker cable, you're quite correct," writes Greg Smith in the June 1998 issue of SoundStage. "I haven't heard anything less expensive than this that is as well balanced and appropriate for such a wide range of systems."
Type 4 is a high-tech, four-conductor, solid LGC copper cable featuring polyethylene insulation, carbon-loaded polyethylene dielectric, and a PVC cover. We hand terminate these cables ourselves using silver-base solder and high-quality gold .25" spades. Then we wrap them in protective plastic. You get no fancy box, but you save a lot of money.
"This is an excellent cable," marvels Britain's Home Entertainment magazine in issue 64. "Type 4 has a fuller and more vibrant palate of tonal colours and textures than most. The treble is detailed, and instruments and voices are well separated, yet the treble is also well controlled, lacking the forward quality and assertiveness of some."
Ordinary Price, Extraordinary Cable
Type 4 might look like a normal round cable, but inside is a fully optimized combination of extraordinary materials and extremely refined design. All four of Type 4's 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 of Type 4's 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.
A Super Sonic Technology
SST stands for Spread Spectrum Technology, an AudioQuest cable innovation. Any single size or shape of conductor has a specific distortion profile. SST significantly reduces distortion by using a precise combination of different size conductors. SST has enabled Type 4 to be the biggest possible four conductor cable that avoids audible skin-effect.
Conductors are made of LGC (Long Grain Copper), which has a pure surface for focused sound and excellent signal transfer. The helical array construction allows for significantly better dynamic contrast and information intelligibility than if the same conductors were run in parallel.
Type 4 cable is UL / CL3 certified for in-wall use. Its combination of economical price and great performance makes it ideal for multi-room systems.
Note: If you prefer larger spades than the .25" gold-plated spades we normally use, please specify your choice in the "Special Order Instruction" field when you submit your order.
Note: Because we hand finish these cable prior to shipping, please allow 2-3 days for your cables to be finished and shipped. If you require faster delivery, please call us and ask.
