AudioQuest Copperhead audio cable - RCA plugs 1m (3.28') stereo pair | 
| Brand: Audioquest
List Price: $95.00
Buy New: $70.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Media: Electronics
Size: 1m (3.28') - RCA plugs
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8 x 10 x 6
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: COPPRHD1.0MPR
Model: COPPRHD1.0MPR
UPC: 092592002173
EAN: 0092592002173
ASIN: B0006DPOIO
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Symmetrical Conductors | | • | Solid PSC Copper | | • | Low Distortion AQ Solder | | • | Optimized Gold-Plating | | • | Foamed PE Insulation |
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Product Description
At first glance, Copperhead's design looks like a traditional coaxial cable. However, PSC copper and many other very important differences each contribute to Copperhead having such unprecedented ease and clarity in an affordable cable. Copperhead has identical conductors for the positive and ground connections. Underneath the 100% coverage foil shield is a bare conductor, exactly the same as the insulated center conductor. The conductor under the shield does double duty as a low distortion audio connection, and as the drain wire connecting the shield to ground. Electrical and magnetic interaction between strands in a conventional cable is the greatest source of distortion, often causing a somewhat dirty harsh sound. Solid conductors are fundamental toward achieving Copperhead's very clean sound. PSC (Perfect Surface Copper) has an astonishingly smooth and pure surface. When high-purity low-oxide copper is kept as soft, pure and smooth as possible, it becomes a wonderfully low distortion conductor. PSC clearly outperforms previous AQ metals that cost over ten times as much. Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation, circuit board materials all absorb energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. The general cable industry ranks insulating materials by loss, with little regard for distortion. AudioQuest ranks materials by damage to an audio signal. The PVC used in Copperhead has too much loss to be used in a quality video cable, but it has a very benign distortion profile through the audio range, keeping Copperhead's sound pleasant and natural. Precision gold plated plugs are carefully attached with the very best solder. Through choice of flux and metallurgy, AQ solder has been optimized to make a low distortion connection. All solder, including "silver solder," is a lousy conductor. The difference you hear between solders is a result of connection quality.
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| Customer Reviews:
 My reference interconnect May 17, 2008
Donald J. Strimbu (Chicago, IL USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm not a audio snob, I'm a music lover. There are various pieces of Musical Fidelity, vintage McIntosh, Denon and Sherborn equipment scattered around the house, and most all of my 20+ stereo pair line-level interconnects are AQ Copperheads. I condition my RCA jacks with Deoxit Gold once a year or so - a clean connection is a noise-free, solid connection - but I don't go mucn crazier than that... also, route cables carefully and don't run interconnects parallel to AC line cords.
You'll be golden, and the music will be sweet. The Copperheads look good, too. Of course, most of you will have them hidden in a rack; but they are totally presentable if an interconnect can be tagged as such... wife-acceptance factor will be higher than less-expensive cables, for sure.
If you want to save a bit, look at the AQ Sidewinder. The construction is similar. Personally, I would NOT spend more than Copperhead prices for interconnects, but your mileage may vary. In fact, I own one set of the AQ G-Snake bargain cables and find them to be totally usable for non-critical listening. But then, I'm a totally non-critical listener - I just love the music!
 SNAKE OIL, ANYONE? October 31, 2008
romanticynic (just east of San Francisco)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you really want to hear your music, you need to spend at least a million dollars for a one meter pair of audio interconnects. You also need to sprinkle your preamp and amplifier with fairy dust and unicorn pee. Make sure you don't get any on your speakers or it will turn the music bluish. Then have your ears gold plated. Happy April Fools Day on Halloween. Seriously, this is a fine audio interconnect cable. The only thing wrong with it is the price. When I was younger and had sharper hearing (and dinosaurs still roamed the earth) I spent nearly two thousand dollars on a golden eared audiophile approved cd player, headphone amplifier and headphones along with some Mobile Fidelity versions of my favorite cds. Having a questioning mind, a willingness to experiment, a friend I could bribe into spending hours switching cables without telling me what he was switching for what (and too bored by the whole thing to notice what he was switching for what) and a shoe box full of cables in the twenty to one hundred twenty dollar range, I tried to hear a difference between them. Except for one Straight Wire cable (which has been discontinued) with enough capacitance to act as a high pass filter, all the cables sounded the same to me. Your mileage may vary. I recommend cables from Impact Acoustics, Cables To Go and Blue Jeans Cable. Anyone ever gone to audioholics online? You might want to check out their scientific measurements and critical listening tests of audio cables. Click on AV University. Happy Halloween!
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