QED celebrates 50 years with a special edition speaker cable

QED Golden Anniversary XT speaker cable on offer is fully terminated with high quality Airloc Forte banana plugs ready for connection to a SINGLE loudspeaker. The cable is finished off with 50 years QED heatshrink.

QED Golden Anniversary XT Reference Speaker Cable was released by QED in celebration of 50 years of extensive research, engineering and audio expertise. Golden Anniversary XT speaker cable is the ideal upgrade for any hi-fi enthusiast who wants to experience the sonic benefits of a high-end speaker cable, but at a reasonable price!

Golden Anniversary XT delivers a wonderfully immersive listening experience with an open and very detailed soundstage. As such, upgrading to QED’s new 50th anniversary speaker cable will undoubtedly reveal the finest detail whether you’re listening to a movie or your favourite music.

Cable is available in different lengths to order, fitted with Airloc Forte banana plugs and/or Airloc spades on request.

Golden Anniversary XT is also available unterminated.

QED 50 Years heatshrink supplied with all orders.

Please contact us with your specific requirements and we will be more than happy to help.

Key Features

• NEW X-Tube™ Plus technology combines X-Tube™ with Aircore™ to deliver an even, consistent performance across the entire audible frequency range.
• Ultra-pure Ohno Continuous Cast Copper and 99.99% oxygen-free copper conductor blend helps improve the signal path and signal retention.
• Low Loss Ultra-Uniform Dielectric insulation boosts efficiency and reduces signal loss.
• Airloc™ Forte banana plugs use a cold weld system for permanent attachment to the cable for improved contact area and reduced resistance.

X-Tube™ Plus technology

QED’s innovative and proven X-Tube™ technology places a cable’s conductive material around a central hollow insulating rod and the result is the elimination of the ‘skin effect’ that would otherwise force high-frequency analogue music signals to the outside of the conductor. In addition, by combining X-Tube™ technology with its equally effective Aircore™ technology, QED also reduces the ‘proximity effect’ that can disrupt current distribution in a speaker cable.

The result is X-Tube™ Plus: a ground-breaking cable geometry that ensures Golden Anniversary XT is a speaker cable with even, consistent performance across the entire audible frequency range.

Ultra-Pure Ohno Continuous Cast Copper conductors

Golden Anniversary XT uses a unique hybrid blend of 99.99% oxygen-free copper (‘OFC’) and Ultra-Pure Ohno Continuous Cast Copper (‘UP-OCC’) for improved signal path and outstanding signal retention of ultra-pure copper conductors, but at a fraction of the price. Thanks to class-leading research and engineering, QED Golden Anniversary XT is the most affordable and attainable speaker cable to exploit the advantages of the continuous-casting process, with this hybrid theoretically improving the path for transients and high frequency detail not available using just OFC alone.

Low-Loss Ultra-Uniform Dielectric insulation

If a speaker cable is to perform to its maximum potential, it’s important that the dielectric material which insulates and protects the central conductors of the cable does so efficiently. Golden Anniversary XT uses a specially developed and formulated low-density polyethylene (‘LDPE’), which works in unison with the cable’s X-Tube Plus configuration to deliver a speaker cable that has high-efficiency and a dissipation factor that is barely measurable.

Airloc™ is a specially developed cold-weld system for permanently attaching QED Forté banana plugs to the company’s entire range of speaker cables, Golden Anniversary XT included. The most vulnerable area of the speaker cable chain is the physical interface between the cable and the speaker or amplifier to which it’s connected and without effective termination, oxidation can occur, degrading the cable’s performance. By using a cold weld crimp-type termination, Forté banana plugs offer maximum resistance to oxidation – for the lifetime of the cable – by effectively turning the cable and the plug into a single, unified object.

Specifications

• Cross-sectional area 2.5 mm2
• Wire gauge 14 AWG
• Jacket outside diameter 11.5 mm
• Loop inductance 0.58 μH/m
• Loop resistance 14.8 mΩ/m
• Capacitance 42.0 pF/m
• Dissipation factor @ 10 kHz 0.009
• Conductors 9 x 19/0.13 mm OFC + 1 x 19/0.13 UP-OPCC
• Insulation LDPE jacket with 100% coverage of golden/mylar tape wrap
• QED Airloc™ Forte banana plugs and/or spades

 

All of which contributes to the reassurance of a brand, and cable, offering no-nonsense sound and build quality at a great price. In the sparsely populated world of hi-fi bargains, this one is Golden!”

Editors Choice - hifi news - August 2023

 

Please let us know if you want Airloc spades fitted instead of banana plugs either amplifier or speaker end or both ends. We would also be happy to supply QED Golden Anniversary XT speaker cable unterminated one or both ends - please ask for details.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

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