AudioQuest Mackenzie Interconnect Cable - 1.5 Meter - RCA to RCA - Single

AudioQuest Mackenzie Interconnect Cable - 1.5 Meter - RCA to RCA - Single

What It Does in Your System

A Step Up Where It Actually Shows

Mackenzie sits above Red River in AudioQuest's interconnect range, and the upgrade isn't cosmetic — it brings PSC+ conductors, a more thorough three-layer noise-dissipation system, and considerably better plugs. Run it between a source and your preamp or receiver and the background gets quieter still, with more air around instruments and a firmer sense of where each one sits.

This listing is a single 1.5-meter cable, useful for a mono subwoofer connection or replacing one channel of an existing run.

Solid PSC+ — AudioQuest's Finer Copper

Signal current concentrates at a conductor's surface, so surface quality drives what you hear. Perfect-Surface Copper+ takes AudioQuest's proprietary metal-processing further, applying it to an ultra-pure copper with less grain structure and a smoother finish than standard PSC. Less grain-boundary distortion means treble that stays clean and unforced rather than acquiring that faint glassy hardness.

All conductors are solid rather than stranded, eliminating the strand-to-strand interaction that smears fine detail.

Triple-Balanced Geometry and Purple Copper Plugs

Most single-ended interconnects make the shield do double duty as the return conductor, compromising both jobs. Mackenzie adds a separate ground-reference conductor, so the 100% coverage shield does nothing but shield, while a carbon-based three-layer noise-dissipation system stops most RF interference before it can modulate your equipment's ground reference.

The plugs are a genuine differentiator too: hanging-silver applied directly over high-purity purple copper, cold-welded to the conductor rather than soldered. Purple copper sounds cleaner than the nickel-plated or OFHC metals most manufacturers use, and the stamped ground shells let AudioQuest choose metal for low distortion rather than ease of machining.

Is This Right for You?

A few things to confirm before you order:

• This is one cable, not a pair. A stereo connection needs two. Order quantity two for a full stereo run, or a single if you're feeding a mono subwoofer input or replacing one channel.
• Line level, not phono. This connects sources to a preamp, receiver, or integrated amplifier — streamers, DACs, disc players, subwoofer outputs. It isn't a phono cable, which needs specific low-capacitance construction for a turntable's cartridge output.
• Consider where it sits in the range. Mackenzie rewards a system resolving enough to show what it's doing. If you're building out a first serious setup, Red River delivers much of the same engineering for less; if your components are genuinely revealing, this is where the money starts working harder.

Setup & Installation

Connect one end to your source component's output and the other to the corresponding input on your preamp, receiver, or integrated amplifier, pushing each plug fully onto its jack. If you're using this as part of a stereo pair, keep left and right consistent at both ends.

Directional arrows on the jacket show the intended orientation; run them from source toward destination. Leave a gentle loop of slack behind the rack so no weight hangs on the connectors, and keep the run away from power cords where practical — the noise dissipation is thorough, but physical separation costs nothing.

Features & Specifications

Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+) Conductors
An ultra-pure copper with an exceptionally smooth surface and less grain structure, minimizing the distortion that grain boundaries introduce.

Triple-Balanced Geometry
A separate ground-reference conductor frees the 100% coverage shield from signal duty — unusual in a single-ended cable, and audible as a lower noise floor.

Carbon-Based 3-Layer Noise-Dissipation
Metal and carbon-loaded synthetics stop most RF interference before it reaches the equipment's ground plane, where it would distort the reference the signal depends on.

Cold-Welded Hanging-Silver Over Purple Copper Plugs
A solder-free termination onto high-purity purple copper, plated with silver — cleaner than the nickel-plated or OFHC plugs found on most competing cables.

Specifications

• Length: 1.5 meters (approx. 4 ft 11 in)
• Termination: Male RCA to male RCA
• Quantity: Single cable (order two for a stereo pair)
• Conductors: Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+)
• Geometry: Triple-Balanced, with separate ground-reference conductor
• Insulation: Hard-Cell Foam
• Shielding: 100% coverage; Carbon-Based 3-Layer Noise-Dissipation
• Plugs: Cold-welded, hanging-silver directly over pure purple copper
• Conductor Direction: Direction-controlled
• Series: AudioQuest Mackenzie

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I get one cable or two?
One. This listing is a single 1.5-meter cable. A stereo connection needs two, so order quantity two unless you're making a single mono connection such as a subwoofer feed.

How does Mackenzie compare to Red River?
Mackenzie steps up to PSC+ conductors, a carbon-based three-layer noise-dissipation system, and hanging-silver-over-purple-copper plugs. Red River remains an excellent cable and shares the same Triple-Balanced geometry — Mackenzie is what you reach for when the rest of the system can show the difference.

What makes the plugs different?
They're cold-welded rather than soldered, joining plug to conductor under high pressure so no lesser metal enters the signal path. The contacts use hanging-silver applied directly over high-purity purple copper, which sounds cleaner than the nickel plating common elsewhere.

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