AudioQuest - Firebird - Source Power Cable (Single)

AudioQuest - Firebird - Source Power Cable (Single)

Low-Z / Noise-Dissipation 3-Pole AC Power Cable

AudioQuest's FireBird Source power cable is ideally suited to lower amperage applications. While the FireBird High Current handles powered amplifiers, power conditioners, and similar devices; FireBird Source is engineered for less demanding tasks. 

Created with components in mind, the FireBird Source is right at home powering auxiliary devices like cd players, DVD players, game systems, and similar devices.  AudioQuest designed this power cable to supply the same, low-distortion power to your components as their FireBird High Current supplies to you amplifier.

While many AC power cables feature low DC resistance in order to accommodate the demand for high current, a cable’s characteristic impedance is also crucial for optimal performance. Unlike most AC cables that constrict or compress an audio-provoked transient, AudioQuest FireBird Source AC cables combine low DC resistance and Zero characteristic impedance in order to deliver uncompressed high-current transients on demand.

Alternating Current, is a far-from-perfect power source. AC power technology is well over a century old and was never designed to meet the exacting standards of today’s high resolution audio-video components. AC noise is present at the utility source, and is then exacerbated by radio frequency noise that is induced and coupled to the component power supplies and to circuit ground. This creates distortion and low-level signal losses via the “masking effect.” Further, power amplifiers can require immense reserves of transient current for their power supplies to react to and then stabilize during dynamic audio passages. Most AC power cords and power conditioner-regenerators, though helpful to a point, are simply not up to the task.

Solid conductors prevent electrical strand-to-strand interaction, major sources of distortion. Surface quality is critical because a conductor can be considered as a rail-guide for both the fields within a conductor, and for the magnetic fields that extend outside the conductor. The astonishingly smooth and pure surface of all AudioQuest’s Perfect-Surface metals nearly eliminates harshness and greatly increases clarity compared to lesser materials. The careful choice of the sizes of the PSS and PSC+ conductors ensures that FireBird’s performance is close to using all PSS Silver, but at a much lower cost.

AC Ground wires may provide protection from an electrical short circuit, but they also act as an antenna. Thus, they are subject to induced radio-frequency (RF) noise. This RF noise bypasses component power supplies and is typically coupled directly into a system’s most sensitive audio/video circuits. AudioQuest’s RF/ND-Tech greatly reduces this distortion, yielding unprecedented levels of noise dissipation across the widest bandwidth of radio frequencies possible. Our unique circuit topology uses a common-mode phase-cancelling array, in concert with proprietary dielectric materials which provide additional differential linear filtering.