AudioQuest - Thunderbird Zero w/ DBS Carbon - Speaker Cables (Pair)

Audio Quest - Thunderbird Zero w/ DBS Carbon - Full-Range Speaker Cables (Pair)

With the introduction of the ThunderBird Zero Full-Range speaker cables, AudioQuest has pushed significantly beyond even their own very high standards.

By eliminating the ThunderBird Zero Full-Range speaker cable’s characteristic impedance, current compression and distortion of the signal transient is significantly reduced. The result is dynamic contrast, transient response, and bass slam that are rendered seemingly without effort.

The ThunderBird Zero Full-Range speaker cables are Cold-Welded to AudioQuest’s extremely pure Red Copper Spades or Bananas. The bare copper is submerged in a vat of pure silver instead of being tumbled in a lower-grade solution. AudioQuest speaker breakouts and plug casings are not metal in order not to induce RF Noise into the conductors.

These new ThunderBird Zero Full-Range speaker cables may be used in one of two ways: either as ideal Full-Range cables, or in combination with a dedicated Bass cable, in a Bi-Wire cable assembly of unparalleled performance. ThunderBird Bass cables incorporate their patented common-mode noise-rejection technology, yielding an audibly dramatic additional reason to Bi-Wire when possible.

Whether AudioQuest’s ThunderBird Zero Full-Range speaker cables are used as Full-Range or Bi-Wire, the beautiful sonic result is the sound of your amplifier doing its job unmolested by either current compression or radio-frequency noise.

Though a cable’s ground leads are integral to a component’s signal transmission, they also act as an antenna. Thus, they are subject to induced Radio-Frequency (RF) noise. RF noise is a parasitic signal that is typically coupled directly into a system’s most sensitive audio/video circuits. AudioQuest’s RF-on-ground Noise-Dissipation (RF/ND-Tech) greatly reduces resulting distortion and signal masking, yielding unprecedented levels of Noise-Dissipation across the widest bandwidth of radio frequencies possible. Their unique circuit topology uses a common-mode phase-cancelling array, providing linear noise dissipation across the entire length of the cable.

The only complete way to eliminate characteristic-impedance mismatches between a cable and the attached source and load is for the cable not to have any fixed characteristic-impedance value. Zero-Tech accomplishes this by eliminating interaction between the insulation and the cable’s conductors—enabling uncompressed current transfer. All-important transient current is unrestricted, and RF Noise-Dissipation is linearized.

Today’s environment is saturated with radio-frequency noise that is extremely difficult to filter or reject. The frequencies of this noise from satellites, cellular towers, and Bluetooth, etc., are so extremely narrow that a conventional shield, or a series or shunt filter, is wholly inadequate. Much of the low-level signal that carries the harmonics and spatial cues that define high-resolution audio is masked by induced radio-frequency noise. AudioQuest’s comprehensive Linearized Noise-Dissipation System combines multiple shields and a carbon-based linearized resistive network that turns most of this noise into heat.