AudioQuest - ITA 1/1 - Instant Tool-less Bulk Audio Cable (Spool)

AudioQuest - ITA 1/1 - Instant Tool-less Bulk Audio Cable (Spool)

AudioQuest's ITA-1/1 is a bulk 24AWG cable designed for Analog Audio or Video transmission. An economical choice for long, in-wall runs; this riser-rated cable is available in 50' to 1000' spools for ease of installation. The ITA-1/1 is designed to be terminated in: RCA, Coaxial, or BNC.

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 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.

Solid Long-Grain Copper (LGC) allows a smoother and clearer sound than cables using regular OFHC (Oxygen-Free High-Conductivity) copper. Solid conductors prevent strand interaction, a major source of distortion. The surface quality is critical because a conductor can be considered as a rail-guide for both the electric fields within a conductor, and for the magnetic fields outside the conductor. LGC has fewer oxides within the conducting material, less impurities, less grain boundaries, and definitively better performance.

It's easy to accomplish 100% shield coverage. Preventing captured radio-frequency interference (RFI) from modulating the equipment's ground reference requires AudioQuest's Noise-Dissipation. Traditional shield systems typically absorb and then drain noise/RF energy to component ground, modulating and distorting the critical Reference ground plane, which in turn causes a distortion of the signal. Noise-Dissipation shields the shield, absorbing and reflecting most of this noise/RF energy before it reaches the layer attached to ground.