AudioQuest Forest Coaxial Digital Cable

An excellent cable adds superiority to a system. Digital Coax Forest cables are designed to minimize the misrepresentation across a tremendously wide-ranging bandwidth. Digital Coax Forest comes in 0.75m, 1.5m, 3.0, and 5.0m.

Importance of Speed

In most applications, the speed of digital communication is significant. For Digital Coax audio "speed" is critical because time relationships within a digital stream are critical to the reconstruction of the analog waveform that brings information, music, and joy to our ears. Time-based damage (jitter) to this information within the data package makes the sound small and flat instead of 3D, harsh and foggy instead of smooth and clear. Forest digital coax can be replaced for a simple 75Ohm video cable to connect with CD player to an external DAC.

Ensuring Consistency in Characteristic Impedance

Hard-Cell Foam insulation is used exclusively in most of the AudioQuest’s video and digital audio cables. Similar to Foamed-PE, it is nitrogen inserted to create air pockets. ‘Hard’ foam is used because the stiffness of the material allows the conductors in the cable to maintain the same relationship with each other along the full length of the cable, thus ensuring that the characteristic impedance of the cable is consistent.

Cost Effective

Solid conductors remove strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications. These signals with high frequency travel on the surface of the conductor. As the surface is made of high-purity silver, the performance is very close to that of a solid silver cable, but priced much closer to solid copper cable. This is a cost effective way of manufacturing very high-quality digital coax cables.

100% Shield Coverage (Foil + Tinned Braid)

Shielding has an important place in any cable design, but the shield on coax interconnects plays an especially important role because it functions not only as a shield but a return path as well. Because of this, the AudioQuest pays special attention to the shield’s metal quality and the fabrication techniques as both will affect the sound and the picture.