AudioQuest Red River Interconnect Cable - 4.0 Meter - RCA to RCA - Pair

AudioQuest Red River Interconnect Cable - 4.0 Meter - RCA to RCA - Pair

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 matched pair of 4.0-meter cables — one per channel — for systems where the source and the amplifier live in different parts of the room.

Noise Rejection That Earns Its Keep Over Distance

The longer an interconnect runs, the more it behaves like an antenna, and a single-ended RCA connection has no differential trick for cancelling what it picks up. That makes the construction matter more, not less. Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation absorbs and reflects most RF interference before it can reach the ground layer and modulate your equipment's ground reference.

Every internal conductor is direction-controlled as well, further draining RF noise away from where it does harm.

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.

Solid Perfect-Surface Copper handles the signal itself, and Hard-Cell Foam insulation holds the conductors in a stable relationship along the full run, keeping impedance consistent from end to end.

Is This Right for You?

A few things to confirm before you order:

• Long single-ended runs favor low-impedance sources. Most modern preamps, DACs, and streamers drive four meters without trouble. If your source has an unusually high output impedance — some tube gear does — a balanced XLR connection would serve you better over this distance. Give us a call and we'll help you check.
• This is a complete pair. Two cables, one per channel — everything a stereo connection needs. No need to double your quantity.
• Line level, not phono. This connects sources to a preamp, receiver, or integrated amplifier. It isn't a phono cable, which needs specific low-capacitance construction for a turntable's cartridge output — and phono signals are especially unhappy over long runs.

Setup & Installation

Connect each cable from your source component's outputs to the corresponding inputs on your preamp, receiver, or integrated amplifier, pushing each plug fully onto its jack and keeping left and right consistent at both ends. Directional arrows on the jacket show the intended orientation; run them from source toward destination.

At this length you're likely routing along a baseboard or under furniture, so cross power cords at right angles rather than running alongside them where you can. Measure the real path before ordering — four meters disappears quickly once the cable has to travel around a room rather than across a shelf.

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.

Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation
Absorbs and reflects most RF interference before it reaches the ground layer, which matters more with every meter of cable.

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: 4.0 meters (approx. 13 ft 1 in)
• Termination: Male RCA to male RCA, per cable
• Quantity: Matched pair (two cables)
• 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 need to order two?
No. This listing is a matched pair — two 4.0-meter cables, one for each channel — so a single order completes a stereo connection between your components.

Is four meters too long for RCA?
Not with a cable built like this one and a source component with normal output impedance, which covers the large majority of modern gear. If your system is balanced-capable at both ends, XLR is the more robust choice at this distance — but plenty of excellent systems run single-ended interconnects this long without issue.

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 a fine choice for the run to your amplifier.

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