QED Silver Anniversary X-TUBE
QED Silver Anniversary XT Speaker Cable - Custom Length
The multi-award winning Silver Anniversary XT cable delivers superior performance for all your Hi-Fi and home theatre needs.
Silver Anniversary-XT has been specifically designed as the natural replacement for the multi-award winning Silver Anniversary speaker cable. Combining the features of Silver Anniversary with the added enhancement of X-Tube™ technology to combat the skin effect and deliver stunning detail.
QED Silver XT What Hi-Fi? 5 Star Review
This excellent product has been our budget cable benchmark. Indeed in 2007 it bagged a What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision gong for the third year running.
Some may say it sounds a tad lean but as long as you partner it with suitable electronics youll be privy to a fantastic sound. (Read more)
What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision - June 2008
High Performance Low Density Polyethylene Dielectric
Cuts down on the amount of audio signal energy lost due to cable capacitance
Silver Plated 99.999% OFC Conductors
Provides a low frequency path for the audio signal and delivers stunning high frequency detail
QED X-Tube Signal Diagram
X-Tube™ Technology
At low frequencies both X-Tube™ and conventional stranded/solid core speaker cables convey signals in a linear way. However at high frequencies X-TubeTM retains a near-linear signal transfer whereas the conventional cables fail to conduct uniformly across the entire conductor area.
In standard speaker cables at high frequencies current flow is highest at the periphery with rapidly deteriorating current density towards the centre of the conductor.
The effect of this is to reduce the actual cross sectional area of the cable at 15kHz to less than 75% of that at low frequencies. This results in higher distortion and compromises the performance of the cable.
X-TubeTM with polycore technology exhibits much lower self-inductance and is therefore less affected by this problem. The polycore technology reduces loop inductance to levels only achievable using more costly and difficult to terminate cables.
The result is more high frequency detail less distortion and greater performance.Specification :
Please note you need to enter a quantity of 2 for a pair
Length : Custom
Wire gauge - 16 AWG
Unique SPOFC triple braid 5 x 16 x 0.1mm
X-Tube™ technology
Jacket Outer Diameter - 3.90mm
Cross-sectional area - 1.50mm²
Loop resistance - 0.021 Ω/m
Capacitance - 50pF/m
Inductance - 0.47 µH/m
Dissipation factor - 0.0006
Ideal for use in all installations
QED Lifetime Guarantee
Usually pre-burnt-in with Nordost Vidar for 96 Hours
Termination
This cable is professionally terminated by Futureshops expert engineers using QEDs superb 24 Carat gold plated AIRLOC termination plugs.
AIRLOC is QEDs specialised loudspeaker termination method and offers the very best termination with QED speaker cables. This is a solder-free airtight fusion between the cable and plug offering optimum signal transfer excellent signal quality and perfect long-term performance.
QED’s AIRLOC FORTE metal banana and spade plugs deliver a superior performance over many plugs offered by rival manufacturers for the following reasons. Firstly the plug is crimped around the conductors under high pressure using a special tool supplied by QED. No soldering is used and as a result the conductors are in contact with the plug 360 degrees which maximises the surface area contact. Furthermore the banana plug itself is in contact with the binding post again at 360 degrees. The net effect of this is it maximises the signal transfer from the plug into your equipment and hence a superior performance. When bare wire is used not all the conductors are in contact with the binding post and as a result some loss occurs.
Unfortunately the metal barrels for the AIRLOC spades were discontinued in 2012 however we still use genuine QED’s AIRLOC spade plugs with genuine QED heat shrinks over the spade plugs. This ensures every QED speaker cable comes fully terminated with the best of QEDs engineering.About QED Cables Made in United Kingdom
QED is an award winning British company with over 40 years of experience in the audio-visual connectivity industry.
In 1973 Bob Abraham and Ian Vine founded QED Audio Products and changed the way people think about hi-fi cables. By the time QED 79 strand speaker cable was launched in 1978 it wasn’t looked upon as ‘just another speaker cable’ but was instead regarded as a serious hi-fi component making a fundamental change in the way people thought about cables.
QEDs reputation for innovation and technical excellence is known throughout the world. The latest computer-aided design techniques allow their research and development team to keep pace with technological advances and deliver products that achieve the highest levels of performance and reliability. This is why QED products are recommended by so many of the world’s leading hi-fi and home theatre equipment manufactu
