AudioQuest Black Beauty Interconnect Cable - 3.0 Meter - RCA to RCA - Pair

AudioQuest Black Beauty Interconnect Cable - 3.0 Meter - RCA to RCA - Pair

What It Does in Your System

Flagship Technology, Packaged for a Real-World System

Black Beauty is one of AudioQuest's "Mythical Horses" — the tier that brings ZERO-Tech, the core technology behind their flagship ThunderBird, FireBird, and Dragon cables, down to a price a great many more systems can justify.

This is a matched 3-meter pair connecting a source component — streamer, DAC, CD player, phono stage — to your preamp, integrated amp, or receiver. Three meters is real reach: separated racks, a component across the room, or a run that has to go around rather than through.

ZERO-Tech Removes the Impedance Mismatch Entirely

Every conventional cable has a characteristic impedance, and it never quite matches the source and load circuits on either end. Those mismatches color the sound. AudioQuest's answer isn't to chase a better match — it's to prevent the cable from having a characteristic impedance in the first place.

ZERO-Tech achieves that by eliminating the electrostatic field between the cable's high and low signal conductors. What you get is RF noise dissipation that stays consistent octave to octave rather than varying across the band, and transients that arrive uncompressed. Dynamics keep their snap instead of being subtly flattened.

Level 6 Noise Dissipation and AudioQuest's Finest Plugs

RF from cellular, Wi-Fi, and satellite sources is everywhere, and a 3-meter run gives it plenty of opportunity. Black Beauty layers a carbon and graphene resistive mesh-network with 0.5% silver-plated RF drain wires and direction-controlled solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ conductors — AudioQuest's Level 6 Linear Noise-Dissipation.

The plugs are the ones AudioQuest reserves for its best work: Hanging-Silver, applied directly over extreme-purity Red Copper rather than tumbled on, inside copper-plated casings. A Double-Balanced construction gives the cable a separate ground-reference conductor, so the shield is never pressed into service as an inferior ground.

Is This Right for You?

A few things to confirm before ordering:

• Your system can show you the difference. Black Beauty rewards resolving electronics and speakers. In a system where the interconnect isn't the limiting factor, AudioQuest's Rivers Series — Mackenzie or Red River — delivers excellent results for considerably less.
• Three meters is a long interconnect. Right for separated components or a room-crossing run. Measure your actual path with the plugs seated, and order the shortest length that genuinely reaches.
• No battery pack needed on this one. AudioQuest's higher Mythical cables use a Dual-72V Dielectric-Bias System with an inline battery pack. Black Beauty's RCA construction delivers ZERO-Tech without one, so there's nothing to find a home for behind your rack.

Setup & Installation

Connect one cable to your source component's left output and the corresponding input on your preamp or amplifier, and the second to the right channel. Match red to red and white to white so your channels don't end up reversed. Push the plugs straight on rather than twisting.

The conductors are direction-controlled, and on AudioQuest cables the arrows indicate both metal directionality and the non-symmetrical attachment of shield and ground — so orientation genuinely matters. Run each cable from source toward amplifier as marked. Black Beauty packages its complex construction into a single round cable that stays manageable to route over 3 meters; keep it clear of AC power cords where you can and cross at right angles where you can't.

Features & Specifications

ZERO-Tech (No Characteristic Impedance)
Eliminating the electrostatic field between signal conductors removes impedance mismatch entirely, for linear noise dissipation and uncompressed transients.

Level 6 Linear Noise-Dissipation
A carbon and graphene resistive mesh-network, direction-controlled conductors, and 0.5% silver-plated drain wires substantially reduce the masking effects of ambient RF.

Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ Conductors
Solid PSC+ prevents strand interaction and minimizes grain-boundary distortion while maximizing linear RF noise dissipation.

Hanging-Silver Over Red Copper Plugs
AudioQuest's finest plugs — silver applied directly, not tumbled, over extreme-purity red copper, in copper-plated casings.

Specifications

• Type: Analog audio interconnect, RCA to RCA, matched pair
• Length: 3.0 meters
• Conductors: Direction-controlled solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+)
• Geometry: ZERO-Tech, Double-Balanced with separate ground-reference conductor
• Noise dissipation: Level 6 — carbon/graphene mesh-network, 0.5% silver-plated RF drain wires, direction-controlled conductors
• Terminations: Hanging-Silver over extreme-purity Red Copper RCA plugs, copper-plated plug casings
• Construction: Single round cable, 2-conductor RCA configuration
• Included: One matched pair of interconnect cables

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this a pair or a single cable?
This is a matched pair — two 3-meter cables, left and right. Everything you need for one stereo connection is included.

What is ZERO-Tech, in plain terms?
Every cable normally has a characteristic impedance that can't perfectly match the components on either end, and that mismatch colors the sound. ZERO-Tech sidesteps the problem by eliminating the electrostatic field between the signal conductors, so the cable effectively has no characteristic impedance to mismatch. The audible result is more even noise dissipation across the frequency range and dynamics that don't get compressed.

Does Black Beauty need a battery pack like the higher AudioQuest cables?
No. The Dual-72V Dielectric-Bias System pack is included with AudioQuest's Pegasus, ThunderBird, FireBird, and Dragon XLR cables. Black Beauty RCA delivers ZERO-Tech without a battery pack — nothing to charge, nothing to place.

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