AudioQuest Fire Interconnect Balanced 72v DBS

Premium Balanced Analog Audio Interconnect with Energy, Assertiveness, and Passion

AudioQuest Fire is a premium, highly advanced balanced analog audio interconnect featuring AudioQuest's Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS) Conductors, a 72-volt Dielectric-Bias System, FEP Air-Tube Insulation, Carbon-Based 8-Layer Noise-Dissipation (NDS), Triple-Balanced Geometry, and highest-quality XLR termination.

Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS) Conductors

Solid conductors prevent both strand-to-strand contacts and magnetic interaction, major sources 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. While less perfectly processed silver can have the same irritating tweeter-in-your-face sound as silver-plated strands, PSS Silver’s smooth surface, extraordinarily careful processing, and high purity, deliver sound as smooth and beautiful as our PSC+ Copper, but with significantly higher resolution.

Dielectric-Bias System

Fire uses AudioQuest's Dielectric-Bias System, which creates a strong, stable electrostatic field which saturates and polarizes (organizes) the molecules of the insulation. This dramatically reduces dielectric induced smearing of the signal, letting sound emerge from a “black” background.

All insulation slows down the signal on the conductor inside. When insulation is unbiased, it slows down parts of the signal differently, a big problem for very time-sensitive multi-octave audio. AudioQuest’s DBS creates a strong, stable electrostatic field which saturates and polarizes (organizes) the molecules of the insulation. This minimizes both energy storage in the insulation and the multiple nonlinear time-delays that occur. The DBS battery packs will last for years. A test button and LED allow for the occasional battery check.

FEP Air-Tube Insulation

Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then later released as distortion. All of Yosemite’s conductors use Air-Tube insulation because air absorbs next to no energy, and FEP (a fluoro-polymer) is the best extrudable solid insulation and absorbs less energy than other materials. The FEP Air-Tubes used in Fire have almost nothing but air around the conductors.

Carbon-Based 8-Layer Noise-Dissipation (NDS)

100% shield coverage is easy. Preventing captured RF Interference from modulating the equipment’s ground reference requires AQ’s Noise-Dissipation System. Metal and Carbon-Loaded synthetics prevent most RFI from reaching the equipment’s ground plane.

Triple-Balanced Geometry

Triple-Balanced Geometry is a hallmark of AudioQuest cables. Proper ground-reference conductor prevents using the shield as an inferior ground-reference conductor.

Highest-Quality XLR Termination

For the highest quality connection, Fire uses premium XLRs featuring double-contact cold-welded reusable plugs, hanging-silver plating directly over machined solid extreme-purity red copper.

Directionality

Because all drawn metal is directional, all audio cables are directional. AudioQuest analog and digital audio cables are all controlled for correct directionality. Please use the cable with the arrows pointing from source to receiver or component.

AudioQuest's Inspiration for Fire Interconnects

Technically speaking, fire is not an object, but an event: the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion by which heat and light are released into the surrounding environment. What we typically think of as “fire”—the often mysteriously beautiful and strangely hypnotic fireplace flicker of white, yellow, or red-orange glow—is actually just the visible part of the fire’s flame, containing the superheated byproducts of the fire’s incomplete exothermic reaction giving off visible light as excess energy is released.

Interestingly, the cherry-red flame of a smoldering campfire measures somewhere around 700˚ Celsius; the deep orange flame of a candle, lit at a bedside or suffusing a living room with gentle aroma, typically burns at around 1000˚ Celsius; and the dazzling white flame created by a meteor as it enters Earth’s atmosphere can often exceed 1500˚ Celsius!

While fire is commonly considered to be a destructive event, it can also be a very effective tool for managing and enhancing fields, forests, and wetlands: Native Americans discovered that while fire killed woody plants, it encouraged the growth of fruit-bearing shrubs and forage-producing grasslands. Of course, fire’s unique potential has been known for some time: It’s likely that humans began using fire to heat food approximately 1 million years ago. Among the classical elements, fire is commonly associated with energy, assertiveness, and passion.

In Greek Mythology, the cult hero Prometheus defied the gods by providing humanity the gift of fire, thereby enabling progress and civilization. People born under the astrological signs of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius are thought to have fire personalities: They are enthusiastic, extroverted, and, like our good friend Prometheus, they are rebellious, passionate, brave, and valiant. It’s no wonder that we have for so long been drawn to fire. A thing to be feared, respected, and loved, fire is that which drives us into the unknown, lights our way through darkness, and signals our way back home.

• Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS) Conductors
• Dielectric-Bias System
• FEP Air-Tube Insulation
• Carbon-Based 8-Layer Noise-Dissipation (NDS)
• Triple-Balanced Geometry
• Highest-Quality XLR termination