Lone Ranger Full-Range

Lone Ranger is the remarkable entry into AudioQuest's streamlined Folk Hero Series of high-performance speaker cables. Featuring tried-and-true AudioQuest design elements along with ZERO-Tech for no characteristic impedance, Lone Ranger has significantly more conductor metal than previous models while being more physically manageable thanks to its positive and negative sides being housed in separate round constructions. The result is a quieter cable that delivers a more muscular overall presentation. 

Perfect for full-range applications, Lone Ranger can also be partnered with AudioQuest BigFoot Bass-Only cable for BiWiring configurations. When an audio system's speakers provide two pairs of binding posts, Lone Ranger on Treble and BigFoot on Bass offer a compelling reason to BiWire. 

The Benefits of BiWiring
When a speaker has separate Bass and Treble inputs, running separate cables to the Bass and Treble inputs significantly reduces distortion. BiWiring prevents the strong bass signal from modulating the delicate treble signal, like taking the waves out of the water when you swim.

The important reduction in current-modulation in the treble cable makes the treble (and for 3-way speakers, the midrange) clearer with better focus on a bigger soundstage. The bass frequencies are not improved at all, but the improved definition of bass harmonics in the treble cable allows the bass to seem significantly better — so there is in fact significantly better “bass.”

With RF/ND-Tech, the advantage of BiWiring is much more dramatic. Patented RF-Canceling Ground-Noise Dissipation attracts RF energy away from the amplifier’s output. The RF/ND-facilitated improvement is not about signal integrity in the cable, but about how much better the amplifier can sound with less RF interference compromising its circuits. Because RF/ND-Tech is so effective, Bass-Only models are for 10kHz and below only. Do not use a Bass-Only cables full-range or on treble.

Note: A BiWire Combo with Bass-Only and ZERO cables joined together at the amplifier is usually most convenient, though joining the cables is optional. When TriWiring, use Bass-Only cables on the Midrange and Bass inputs. Do not Double-BiWire with two ZERO-Tech cables. Your amp will distort.

• ZERO-Tech (No Characteristic Impedance): The only way to prevent characteristic-impedance mismatch-effects between a cable and its attached source and load circuits is for the cable not to have a characteristic-impedance. ZERO-Tech accomplishes this by eliminating any electrostatic field between the cable’s high and low signal conductors — enabling uncompressed current transfer. All-important transient current is unrestricted and RF Noise-Dissipation is more effective and linear.
• Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+) Conductors: Solid conductors prevent strand-interaction, a major source of dynamic distortion. Extreme-purity PSC+ copper minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries and maximizes RF-Noise Dissipation.
• Linear Noise-Dissipation: The Earth is permeated with RF-Noise from satellites, cellular, WiFi, etc. Lone Ranger’s Graphene+Carbon Mesh-Network, ZERO-Tech, direction-controlled metal, 72v DBS, and silver-plated shield drains effectively minimize damaging RF-Noise.
• 72v Dielectric-Bias System (DBS) with RF Noise-Trap: Insulation is also a dielectric that acts like a shunt-filter. Biasing the dielectric both minimizes dielectric-noise and linearizes the filter, significantly improving wide-bandwidth dissipation of induced noise.
• Silver-Plated Shield Drains: Significantly aid in the efficient dissipation of RF-Noise.
• Permanent Molecular Optimization (PMO): By optimally and efficiently applying a high-frequency AC signal many times greater than any audio system could possibly provide over any length of time, transient intermodulation distortion and the cable burn-in process are significantly reduced.
• Cold-Welded Red-Copper Spades or Bananas: Cold-Welding avoids the introduction of heat and distortion-causing materials like solder. The bare parts are submerged (hung) in silver instead of tumbled in a lower-grade solution. Speaker breakouts and plug casings are synthetic, not metal, to avoid inducing RF Noise into the conductors.
• 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. A fundamental aspect of AudioQuest’s multifaceted Noise-Dissipation technology, Direction-Controlled Conductors ensure induced noise is dissipated and drained properly.