AudioQuest - CAT700 Forest - Bulk Network Cable (Spool)

AudioQuest - CAT700 Forest - Bulk Network Cable (Spool)

AudioQuest's CAT700 Forest Bulk Ethernet cables utilizes Solid 0.5% Silver Conductors conductors, which completely eliminate strand interaction, one of the biggest sources of distortion in cables, for clearer, more dynamic and involving sound. Superior conductor metals minimize distortion by having fewer grain boundaries and less impurities at those boundaries. Hard-Cell Foam insulation helps maintain critical signal-pair geometry. 

Of course all AudioQuest CAT700 Forest Bulk Ethernet cables are marked to indicate the directionality inherent in all analog and digital audio cables. AudioQuest's CAT700 Forest Bulk PVC-Jacketed Ethernet cables are Riser-rated for in-wall installation.

Solid conductors minimize the harmful effects of both electrical and magnetic strand-to-strand interaction. For digital cables, whose signals are of such high frequency that they travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor, increasingly thick layers of silver plating are applied to AudioQuest’s Long-Grain Copper (LGC) conductors to further improve Noise-Dissipation. Placing the superior metal on the outside of the conductor produces the greatest benefit on overall performance—a superbly cost-effective way to maximize a digital cable.

Hard-Cell Foam (HCF) Insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry. Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy. Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. Hard-Cell Foam Insulation is nitrogen-injected to create air pockets. Because nitrogen (like air) does not absorb energy and therefore does not release any energy from or into the conductor, distortion is reduced. In addition, the stiffness of the material allows the cable's conductors to maintain a stable relationship along the cable's full length, producing a stable impedance character and further minimizing distortion.