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AudioQuest Python 1M balance XLR Interconnects.

AudioQuest Python 1M

Original price was: $300.00.Current price is: $150.00.

1m pair balance XLR Interconnects.

Type: Trade

Condition: 9/10 — Excellent. Very light use

 

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Product Description

 Exceptional design techniques, air insulation, truly superior PSC+ copper, and an aerospace connection system combine to make Python possible. Whether used single ended (RCA plugs) or balanced (XLR plugs), Python’s smooth, precise and powerful sound is obvious. 

Python is Triple-Balanced. This means there are three identical insulated conductors, in addition to a separate conductor underneath the 100% coverage foil shield. When used with XLR connectors and balanced electronics, the two positive signals (inverting and non-inverting) and the negative, all get the same low distortion conducting path. The shield is attached to chassis ground through the case of the XLR, providing extremely effective shielding without contaminating the quality of the negative conducting path.  The shield is only attached at one end, providing total shield coverage without compromising the negative conducting path.

 All of Python’s conductors are solid. Electrical and magnetic interaction between strands in a conventional cable is the greatest source of distortion, often causing a somewhat dirty harsh sound. Solid conductors are fundamental toward achieving Python’s very clean sound.

PSC+ (Perfect Surface Copper+) has an astonishingly smooth and pure surface. Proprietary metal processing technology protects the wire’s surface at every stage of drawing and fabrication. When high-purity low-oxide copper is kept as soft, pure and smooth as possible, it becomes a wonderfully low distortion PSC conductor. PSC+ is manufactured by applying the same exceptional technology to an ultra pure copper. The resulting sound quality is even more focused and simply less in-the-way. For fifteen years AudioQuest has pioneered the use of superior metals; yet even we were surprised by the huge leap in performance made possible with Perfect Surface Technology. PSC+ simply outperforms all previously available metals at any price.

Polyethylene (PE) tubes are used instead of conventional insulation because any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation, circuit board materials all absorb energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. Polyethylene is a low loss material with a benign distortion profile. Air contributes no distortion because air absorbs next to no energy. Since the inner diameter of the PE tubes is much larger than the outer diameter of the metal conductor, the metal only touches the PE tube in a single line. The conductors are almost perfectly insulated with air. The resulting sound is astonishingly free from the smearing caused by any solid insulation. In additional to superb subtlety and finesse, the PE tubes make possible the powerful and authoritative dynamics that most distinguish Python.

Python’s XLR connectors have silver thickly plated directly over the plug parts, without the intermediary nickel layer common to almost all other plugs. Silver plating provides the best possible connection, regardless of plating on the equipment jacks.

        A combination of these major ingredients, and many more subtle details make it possible for Python to surpass all previous AudioQuest interconnects.

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