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Best Premium Speaker Cable 2025 - What Hi-Fi? Magazine
"Recommended" Award - Hi-Fi Choice Magazine
Affordable High-End Cable with "Scale, Detail, and Authority"
A clearly audible step up from AudioQuest's Rocket 11, Rocket 22 is a high-performance, low-noise, CL3/FT4-certified speaker cable designed to quickly and easily accommodate either Full-Range or Single-BiWire applications, making it an outstanding choice for custom installers and enthusiasts alike. With no breakouts or braids to cut back and dress, preparation is as simple as can be.
Superb for hi-fi, home theater, custom installation, and more, Rocket 22 is CL3/FT4-certified for in-wall use.
Our affordable per-foot, bulk-cable pricing allows you to buy exactly the amount of unterminated cable you need for your particular application. No more. No less. Terminate it yourself and save, compared to buying cables that are already terminated. Plus, you can cut this bulk cable to exactly the lengths you need.
Award-Winning Performance
What Hi-Fi? Magazine honored Rocket 22 by naming it Best Premium Speaker Cable 2025. According to Managing Editor Becky Roberts, "The Rocket 22 continues the fine work of its multi-Award-winning sibling, the Rocket 11, and, in a suitably talented set-up, the difference in price between the two can be justified by the improvement in scale, detail, and authority."
"It carries an impressive amount of fine detail, arranging it in a stable and cohesive manner and presenting it even-handedly without emphasis, and despite its civilised nature there’s still enough in the way of dynamic punch and rhythmic drive to allow a track's sheer energy and attack to shine through."
"All of this makes for an easy-going balance that makes the Rocket 22 suitable for a wide range of systems."
"Excellent Value Cables"
Rocket 22 also won a "Recommended" award from England's Hi-Fi Choice magazine.
"First, I audition a great recording of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet played by the London Symphony Orchestra. Act 1 Scene 2 is a section with great contrasts heralding the arrival of guests at a ball. The music ranges from the loud, triumphal entry of each new visitor to the delicate detail of the guests mingling with each other. The music is stately, with great dynamics, as well as intimate in the quieter sections and the loudspeaker cables effectively convey all of the required formality of such an occasion perfectly."
"A recording of James Taylor singing You’ve Got a Friend accompanied by his guitar and drums is musical and involving and shows off the surprisingly elegant performance of these excellent value cables."
Long-Grain Copper/Perfect-Surface Copper Conductors
Rocket 22 uses a carefully finessed blend of Long-Grain Copper (LGC) and high-purity Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC). LGC has fewer impurities and fewer internal grain junctions than standard OFHC copper, while the even smoother, purer surface of PSC further eliminates harshness and improves clarity. All AudioQuest conductors are direction-controlled for optimum noise dissipation.
Ideal for Full-Range or Single-Biwire Configurations
Use Rocket 11 as a full-range cable, with red (+) and black (-) conductors grouped together, or, when the speakers provide separate bass and treble inputs, further optimize system performance by biwiring.
Semi-Solid True-Concentric Conductor Design
In a True-Concentric conductor design, each successive layer of stranded conductor spirals in the direction opposite of its underlying layer. This technique eliminates the lines of contact between adjacent conductor layers, while increasing pressure at the contact points, thereby significantly reducing electrical-contact strand interaction and its accompanying distortion.
Double Low-Inductance Twisted Pair Geometry
A typical speaker cable with parallel conductors has fairly high inductance, smearing energy across time, which results in sound that is dull and unfocused. In Rocket 11, the two conductors in each half of the cable are twisted around one another, providing lower inductance, greater clarity, and superior bass-to-treble frequency extension.
"A Significant Leap Forward"
"A significant leap forward for anyone serious about optimising their soundscapes," observes theaudiotailor.com.au, March 12, 2025. "Designed with precision and a deep understanding of acoustic purity, this cable transforms routine listening into an immersive sonic adventure."
