
The Absolute Sound's 2026 Editors' Choice Awards: Shared Spaces
Eight AudioQuest products have received The Absolute Sound's Editors' Choice Award (Shared Spaces), featured in the November issue of TAS, available now.
ZERO-Tech Speaker Cable
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.
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.
Slightly smaller than Brave Heart (11.6mm OD vs Brave Heart's 14.1mm OD per polarity) and boasting the same friendly construction that places positive and negative sides in discrete housings, Lone Ranger offers a remarkable sonic improvement over its predecessor characterized by eye-opening resolution and presence, realistic dynamic ease, and a surprisingly authoritative overall presentation.
Like its larger sibling, Lone Ranger meaningfully blurs the line between Folk Hero and Mythical-level sound quality. How is this achieved? Lone Ranger features many of the same upgrades that make Brave Heart such a thrilling success.
Permanent Molecular Optimization (PMO) does not replace the important aural benefit of playing music over extended periods of time. Music (modulated AC signal) slightly stresses the dielectric and connection interfaces, significantly benefitting cable performance.
PMO is a controlled extreme stressing of the materials — a near-death experience for them — that significantly and permanently (unlike running-in) helps the cable get out of the music's way.
All this is complemented by several important tried-and-true AudioQuest design elements. These include:
And keep eyes and ears open for BigFoot — expected to reveal itself in early 2026. BigFoot BASS cable with Radio-Frequency Noise-Dissipation (RF/ND) will be the Bass cable complement to Lone Ranger. As wonderful as Brave Heart is for Full-Range loudspeakers, when the speakers offer the capability to BiWire, Lone Ranger on Treble and BigFoot on Bass will be the definitive answer to two very important questions:
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Black on Black Nylon Braid
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Graphene+Carbon Mesh-Network
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Lone Ranger Full-RangeFrom $1,495.00 View details | Robin Hood ZEROFrom $997.50 View details | Robin Hood SILVERFrom $3,750.00 View details | Brave Heart Full-RangeFrom $2,495.00 View details | |
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Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS) Sonic-Signature Conductors & Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+)
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ZERO-Tech (No Characteristic Impedance)
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ZERO-Tech (No Characteristic Impedance)
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Black on Black Nylon Braid
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Green on Black Nylon Braid
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Gray on Black Nylon Braid
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Red on Black Nylon Braid
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Graphene+Carbon Mesh-Network
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Multi-Layer Carbon-Based Noise-Dissipation
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Multi-Layer Carbon-Based Noise-Dissipation
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Graphene+Carbon Mesh-Network
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