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• Item: Digital AES/EBU Cable, Active.• Length: 0.75 Meter (31") • Weight: 1 Lbs • Quantity: One Cable • Manufacturer: AudioQuest • Model#: Raven • Colour: Red/Black • Termination: XLR • Conductor: Perfect Surface Silver (PSS) • Condition: 8/10 • Mechanical defects: NONE • Cosmetic defects: very Minor scuffs and scratches. • MSRP: $800.00 • Box/Manual: none • Accessories: none
• Repair/Service History: NONE • Upgrades/Mods: NONE • Warranty: None provided. Individual seller. • Asking Price: $ Or Best Offer
• Payment Method: Money Order, Cashiers Check, Paypal. (Paypal users: Must have verified address with Paypal and pay 3% Fees) • Shipping terms: Worldwide. Please email with inquiries some restrictions apply. Cash/Local pickup preferred. Description below: This is the cable professional reviewers use to audition systems, Audioquest’s flagship digital AES/EBU cable. Pure silver conductors, active Digital Cable 72v DBS. Includes 72v DBS Network, a dual connector pigtail if you wish to double the DBS Value. • Geometry: 110 ohm AES/EBU Triple Balanced • Metal: 100% silver • Gauge: 24 awg • Shield: Hard Cell Foam • Jacket: 100% coverage (Copper Foil/Silver-Plated Spiral/Conductive PVC) • Jacket: Black/red braid • Terminations: XLR All of Raven’s conductors are solid. 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 Raven's very clean sound. Raven’s Perfect Surface Silver (PSS) has an astonishingly smooth and pure surface. Proprietary metal processing technology protects the wire’s surface at every stage of drawing and fabrication. PSS’s extreme transparency is made possible by applying Perfect Surface Technology to ultra pure solid silver. Greatly improved performance is made possible by a constant 72 volt charge on all Raven’s insulation. Similar to how the earth’s magnetic field makes all compasses point north, the AQ DBS system creates an electrostatic field which causes the molecules of the insulation to all point in the same direction. This minimizes the multiple nonlinear time-delays. Sound appears from a surprisingly black background with unexpected detail and dynamic contrast. Because DBS battery packs are attached when Raven cables are assembled, Raven does not require any additional run-in period. Because there is no “load” on the easily replaceable batteries, they will last for years. A test button and LED allow for occasional verification of battery performance. 100% shield coverage is easy. Preventing captured RF Interference from modulating the equipment’s ground-reference requires AQ’s Noise-Dissipation System. Metal and Carbon-Loaded synthetics prevent most RFI from reaching the equipment’s ground-plane. Rigid micro-cellular high-density PE foam insures stable impedance and minimum reflection-induced jitter. Raven’s plugs are Resistance Welded to the cable in a process which sends 8,000 amperes of current through the junction of conductor and plug for 33 millionths of a second. The heat resulting from the resistance of the metals locally liquefies the conductor and the plug, creating a single material alloy where the two meet. An ideal connection that puts any solder to shame. Raven's XLR connectors have silver thickly plated directly over the plug parts, without the intermediary nickel layer common to almost all other plugs. Silver plating provides the best possible connection, regardless of plating on the equipment jacks.
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