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Recommended Component 2025 – Stereophile
Extremely Refined Design
AudioQuest's budget-friendly speaker cable, Rocket 33, doesn't compromise audio excellence. With a unique blend of LGC and PSC Copper conductors in a new geometry, it delivers a smooth, open sound and impressive dynamic range.
This 'Dual-Triple' speaker cable doesn't look normal on the outside, and it isn't normal on the inside, either. AudioQuest Rocket 33 offers amazingly clean and effortless performance, thanks to a combination of extraordinary materials and extremely refined design.
"Recommended Component" Honors
Stereophile honored Rocket 33 by awarding it the magazine's coveted Recommend Component status for 2025.
According to Stereophile, "AudioQuest's 14AWG, solid-core Rocket 33 speaker cable offered an exciting leap in performance over SM's RadioShack Flat Megacable speaker wire, infusing music with more low-level resolution, transient speed, clarity, and physicality. "
"Natural, Smooth, and Effortless"
"I have to say that I did not expect such a good performer in this price level," reports audiodrom.net.
"The Rocket 33 is a very natural, smooth, and effortless cable. Instead of keeping you alert, it cherish your senses and brings your attention to music. There is a lot of micro-detail for those detail-hunters out there, but it is very well integrated within the musical context, so it does not disturb."
Solid Conductors
All six of Rocket 33's conductors are solid. Solid conductors prevent strand interaction, a major source of cable distortion. Electrical and magnetic interaction between strands in a conventional cable is the single greatest source of distortion, often causing a somewhat harsh, dirty and confused sound.
Solid conductors are the most important ingredients enabling Rocket 33's very clear sound. Whether a conductor is solid or stranded, skin effect is a prime distortion mechanism in speaker cables. Rocket 33 very simply keeps this effect out of the audio range by using conductor sizes that are below the threshold for audible distortion.
Carbon-Based Noise Dissipation
Alternating layers of carbon-loaded synthetics "shield the shield," minimizing RF noise before it reaches the layer attached to the ground.
Long-Grain Copper & Perfect-Surface Copper
Rocket 33 uses a carefully finessed combination of Long-Grain Copper (LGC) and high purity Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC) conductors. All conductors are solid, which prevents strand interaction, a major source of distortion. Surface quality is critical because a conductor can be considered as a rail-guide for both the electric fields within a conductor, and for the magnetic fields outside the conductor.
The astonishingly smooth and pure Perfect-Surface eliminates harshness and greatly increases clarity compared to OFHC, OCC, 8N and other coppers. High-purity PSC further minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries, which exist within any metal conductor.
Spread Spectrum Technology (SST)
Any single size or shape of conductor has a characteristic distortion profile. Even though radially symmetrical conductors (solid round or tubular) have the fewest discontinuities, each size still has a sonic signature. Rocket 33 uses a precise combination of three different size conductors in order to significantly reduce the audibility of these character flaws.
Double Star-Quad Geometry
The relationship between conductors defines a cable's most basic electrical values (capacitance and inductance). However, even when those variables are kept in a reasonable balance, the relationship between conductors can be varied in ways that greatly affect the sound.
The Double Star-Quad geometry of Rocket 33 reduces time smearing while preserving dynamics and clarity. In addition, Rocket 33 is an exceptional Single-BiWire cable. When the halves are separated at the speaker end, the design design turns Rocket 33 into a true Double-BiWire set thanks to the magnetic autonomy of each star-quad. When separated, the Dual-Triple let Rocket 33 be a maximum performance Double-BiWire in a single cable.
