AudioQuest Red River Interconnect Cable - 1.0 Meter - RCA to RCA - Single

AudioQuest Red River Interconnect Cable - 1.0 Meter - RCA to RCA - Single

What It Does in Your System

Real Engineering at a Sensible Price

Red River is where AudioQuest's serious interconnect work becomes affordable — solid conductors, a dedicated ground-reference path, and genuine noise dissipation, all in a cable most systems can justify. Run it between a source and your preamp or receiver and the presentation settles: quieter background, cleaner leading edges, instruments holding their own space rather than blurring together.

This listing is a single 1.0-meter cable, useful for a mono subwoofer connection or replacing one channel of an existing run.

Solid Perfect-Surface Copper for a Cleaner Signal

Signal current concentrates at a conductor's surface, which is why Perfect-Surface Copper matters. Its exceptionally smooth, high-purity surface minimizes the grain-boundary distortion that gives ordinary copper a faintly hard, glassy character. Solid conductors rather than stranded also eliminate the strand-to-strand interaction that smears fine detail.

You'll hear it as treble that stays clean at volume and vocal texture with more of the real thing about it.

Triple-Balanced Geometry — Even in an RCA Cable

This is the part most single-ended interconnects skip. An ordinary RCA cable presses its shield into double duty as the return conductor, which compromises both jobs. Red River adds a separate ground-reference conductor, so the 100% coverage shield does nothing but shield — three conductors doing three distinct jobs.

Hard-Cell Foam insulation holds those conductors in a stable relationship along the entire run, keeping impedance consistent, while its high air content absorbs and releases very little energy.

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.
• Measure the routing path, not the gap. One meter suits components on adjacent shelves with a little dressing behind the rack. If your gear sits farther apart, step up a length rather than leaving the cable under tension.

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 good, but physical separation costs nothing.

Features & Specifications

Solid Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC) Conductors
An exceptionally smooth, high-purity copper surface minimizes grain-boundary distortion for cleaner, more natural sound.

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.

Hard-Cell Foam Insulation
A stiff, air-filled dielectric holds conductor geometry stable along the full run for consistent impedance and minimal energy storage.

Cold-Welded, Gold-Plated RCA Terminations
A solder-free, high-pressure joint keeps a lesser metal out of the signal path while the gold plating resists corrosion over years of use.

Specifications

• Length: 1.0 meter (approx. 3 ft 3 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; Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation
• Plugs: Cold-welded, gold-plated
• Conductor Direction: Direction-controlled
• Series: AudioQuest Red River

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I get one cable or two?
One. This listing is a single 1.0-meter cable. A stereo connection needs two, so order quantity two unless you're making a single mono connection such as a subwoofer feed.

Can I use it with my turntable?
Only from a phono stage onward. The output of a turntable's cartridge needs a dedicated low-capacitance phono cable; once the signal has been through a phono preamp, Red River is an excellent choice for the run to your amplifier.

What does "cold-welded" mean?
The plug is joined to the conductor under high pressure instead of being soldered, so no lesser metal enters the signal path at the termination. Gold plating on the contact surface then resists corrosion for a connection that stays clean over time.

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