AudioQuest Products Named TAS Editors’ Choice
A wonderful array of AudioQuest products have received The Absolute Sound’s 2025 Editors’ Choice Award.
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Monsoon Recertified
Power Cable
$300.00 USD
$400.00
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Amplifier-End Connector: Multi-Spade, Banana, U-Spade, or V-Spade
Often, the choice between terminating your speaker cables with spade lugs or banana plugs will come down to personal preference. However, the EU-compliant isolated binding posts used on some power amplifiers often makes it difficult if not impossible to tighten spade lugs with high torque or pressure. In these applications, the AudioQuest banana connector is the superior choice, and may be the only choice.
AudioQuest has conducted a fairly extensive survey of contemporary amplifier manufacturers to determine whether spades or bananas will be most appropriate for a given brand and model of amplifier. Please contact us, provide the brand and model of the amplifier, and we’ll respond with the optimal connector type.
Given the girth and weight of our Mythical Creature Series speaker cables, a spade may be better capable of fully supporting the cable. This is particularly a concern with binding posts that do not allow a banana connector to fully seat into the post. The EU-compliant posts will neither accept our V-Spade nor allow our Multi-Spade to be fully seated. For these applications (or when you’re not certain), we highly recommend the U-Spade, as it can accommodate any binding post. The V-Spade is a specialty spade connector that works well with large wingnut binding posts (such as the Mundorf ), as it allows extra clearance.
Speaker-End Connector: Spade or Banana
Here we typically recommend the U-Spade or banana connector. However, even though there is less weight and pressure on this side of the cable (particularly for BiWire sets), it is nevertheless important to note the binding post’s design. If a banana connector cannot seat all the way into the binding post, we recommend one of our spade connectors.
Key Features & Technology Explained
Specifications
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Description
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High-Purity True-Concentric PSC+ and LGC Conductors
- Versatile Enhancement: The AudioQuest Monsoon power cable is your key to unlocking high-performance audio and video setups at home. Designed to efficiently power a wide range of audio/video components, it optimizes performance with both constant and variable currents, providing a significant lifestyle upgrade for those who value quality entertainment.
- Home Theater Performance: With the Monsoon power cable, experience cleaner, clearer visuals and thrilling dynamics in your home theater. Its ZERO-Tech and RF/ND-Tech features minimize noise and enhance circuit performance, allowing your movies and shows to shine with excellent reliability and detail.
- Audiophile Sound Quality: Elevate your listening experience with Monsoon's True Concentric Perfect-Surface Copper+ and Long-Grain Copper conductors. These features work together to deliver world-class sound clarity, depth, and dynamics, making it an excellent choice for audiophiles seeking cleaner and more naturally dynamic sound.
- Gaming Advantage: Game with precision using Monsoon power cables. Enjoy improvements in response time and reduced lag, thanks to its superior power stability. Critical gamers will appreciate how Monsoon reduces noise and interference, ensuring a seamless, immersive gaming experience.
- Smart Home Connectivity: Monsoon enhances connectivity and performance for your smart home devices. Its compatibility with power-hungry smart home equipment means you can count on stable connections, making it vital for a smooth-running, tech-driven household.
- Equipment Protection: The Monsoon power cable provides peace of mind with robust protection against power surges and fluctuations. Its advanced technology offers a reliable shield for your precious equipment, ensuring their longevity and consistent operation over time.
- Integration and Usability: Designed for ease of use, the Monsoon power cable seamlessly integrates into your home setup. Its build quality ensures it fits well within your space, offering a setup that is as straightforward as it is effective, adding a sleek touch to any system.
- Upgrade Your Experience: Elevate your entertainment with the Monsoon power cable. Its advanced features promise practical advantages and superior sound and visual quality. Don't wait to enhance your setup—experience the difference high-quality power delivery can make.
With only Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+) on the outside, Monsoon’s conductors are essentially all PSC+ even though the conductor core is Long-Grain Copper (LGC). Both superior metal and conductor geometry greatly reduce ear-fatiguing Transient Intermodulation (TIM) Distortion.
ZERO-Tech
While many AC power cables feature low DC resistance in order to accommodate the demand for high current, a cable’s characteristic impedance is also crucial for optimal performance. Unlike most AC cables that constrict or compress an audio-provoked transient, AudioQuest AC cables combine low DC resistance and ZERO (no) characteristic impedance in order to deliver uncompressed high-current transients on demand.
RF/ND-TECH
AC Ground wires may provide protection from an electrical short circuit, but they also act as an antenna. Thus, they are subject to induced radio-frequency (RF) noise. This RF noise bypasses component power supplies and is typically coupled directly into a system’s most sensitive audio/video circuits. AudioQuest’s RF/ND-Tech greatly reduces this distortion, yielding unprecedented levels of noise dissipation across the widest bandwidth (range) of radio frequencies possible. Our unique circuit topology uses a common-mode phase-cancelling array, in concert with proprietary dielectric materials which provide additional differential linear filtering. US Patent # 8,988,168.
DIRECTIONALITY
All drawn metal strands or conductors have a non-symmetrical, and therefore directional, grain structure. AudioQuest controls the resulting RF impedance variation so that noise is drained away from where it will cause distortion. The correct direction is determined by listening to every batch of metal conductors used in every AudioQuest audio cable. When applicable, arrows are clearly marked on the connectors to ensure superior sound quality. For most models of AQ cable, the arrows not only indicate the direction that optimizes metal-directionality as part of Noise-Dissipation, but also indicates non-symmetrical attachment of shield and GND in order to optimize full-system performance.
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