Audio Quest Rocket 33
This cable with double star quad geometry called “Rocket” looks unusual from the outside and is not ordinary from the inside either. The sophisticated combination of exceptional materials and extremely sophisticated design allows the Rockets to honor all types of music equally.
DOUBLE STAR QUAD GEOMETRY
The relationship between the individual conductors defines the basic electrical properties of a cable (capacitance and inductance). Even when these variables are kept in a sensible balance, the sound is greatly affected due to the conductors’ particular geometric relationships to one another. The Star Quad geometry is far superior not only to conductors running in parallel, but also to the same conductors run as two twisted pairs.
LADDER MADE OF SOLID PERFECT-SURFACE COPPER (PSC)/LONG-GRAIN COPPER (LGC)
This cable uses a carefully coordinated combination of long crystalline copper (LGC) with extremely high-purity perfect surface copper (PSC). LGC contains fewer oxides, fewer impurities, fewer grain boundaries within the conductive material and therefore offers definitely better reproduction. The amazingly smooth and pure PSC also eliminates roughness and significantly improves transparency.
CARBON-BASED NOISE AND CROSSTALK DISSIPATION SYSTEM
The negative conductors of this cable are insulated with partially conductive carbon-containing polyethylene. This remarkable material attenuates high-frequency interference so that it is not fed back into the amplifier. This provides the same sonic benefit as reducing fluctuations and improving spatiality as reducing RF interference in an audio circuit. An additional carbon layer dampens the mutual influence of positive and negative conductors, and the three-layer carbon-based NDS system as an outer layer additionally absorbs interference from outside.
POLYETHYLENE FOAM INSULATION (FOR ALL PLUS CONDUCTORS)
Any solid material adjacent to a conductor becomes part of an incomplete electrical network. Cable insulation and circuit board material absorb energy. Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortions. However, in the Rocket 33, air-filled polyethylene foam insulation is used for both conductors. Because air absorbs almost no energy and polyethylene is low-loss and has a benign distortion profile, PE foam with its high air content causes significantly fewer blurring effects than other materials.