AudioQuest - William Tell Bi-Wired Silver Zero w/ Bass Cables (Pair)

AudioQuest - William Tell Bi-Wired Silver Zero w/ Bass Cables (Pair)

AudioQuest's William Tell Silver Bi-Wire speaker cables can be used in one of two ways: either employing the Zero model for Full-Range, or by using the Zero model in combination with a dedicated Bass cable, as a fully optimized Bi-Wire Combination cable. The William Tell Silver Bi-Wire speaker cables also feature AudioQuest's patented common-mode noise-rejection technology. These latest AudioQuest speaker cables significantly outperform previous technology at controlling and draining radio-frequency noise.

The William Tell Silver Bi-Wire 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.

“The AudioQuest William Tell hardly has to fear competition in the speaker cable class up
to 4000 euros. Therefore, the folk hero is also beyond this sound barrier of many of his
opponents by the decisive arrow length.”
— Fidelity Online 4/15/20, Hans von Draminski

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 Perfect-Surface Copper+ eliminates harshness and greatly increases clarity compared to OFHC, OCC, 8N, and other premium coppers. Extremely high-purity Perfect-Surface Silver further minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries, which exist within any metal conductor.

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.

When possible, running separate cables to the treble and bass halves of a speaker significantly reduces distortion. Bi-Wiring keeps the large magnetic fields associated with bass energy out of the treble cable, allowing the delicate upper frequencies to travel a less magnetically disturbed path, like taking the waves out of the water when you swim. AudioQuest’s RF/ND-Tech (patented RF-Canceling Ground-Noise Dissipation) attracts RF energy away from the amplifier’s output. When properly implemented, Bi-Wiring has always been a cost-effective way to get better performance for the same or less money.

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.