Vodka
Vodka
HDMI adds 10% silver-plating to its predecessors’ solid-core
conductors. Like all AudioQuest HDMI cables, Vodka uses Solid
High-Density Polyethylene Insulation, and precise geometry. Specific
attention has been paid to maximizing the performance of HDMI, and
indeed, AudioQuest’s HDMI cables push sonic performance to new levels.
SOLID 10% SILVER CONDUCTORS:
Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce
jitter. Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very
high-frequency applications, like HDMI audio and video. These signals,
being such a high frequency, travel almost exclusively on the surface of
the conductor. As the surface is made of high-purity silver, the
performance is very close to that of a solid silver cable, but priced
much closer to solid copper cable. This is an incredibly cost effective
way of manufacturing very high-quality HDMI cables.
FOAMED-POLYETHYLENE 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 released as
distortion. Vodka HDMI uses air-filled Foamed-Polyethylene Insulation
because air absorbs next to no energy and Polyethylene is low-loss and
has a benign distortion profile. Thanks to all the air in Foamed-PE, it
causes much less of the out-of-focus effect common to other materials.
CARBON-BASED 3-LAYER NOISE-DISSIPATION SYSTEM (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.
HIGH SPEED DATA CAPACITY:
All AudioQuest HDMI cables up to 10 meters meet or exceed the 10.2 Gbps
maximum data rate for HDMI and are approved High Speed with Ethernet
cables. This means that all AudioQuest cables up to 10 meters are
capable of transmitting 100% of the data required for all of HDMI’s
current audio/video features including multichannel high-resolution
audio, 1080p and 4k video, and 3D video from Blu-ray. All AQ HDMI cables
will deliver 100% of the data required for 120Hz/240Hz/600Hz displays.
ETHERNET AND AUDIO RETURN CHANNEL ENABLED:
All AudioQuest HDMI cables up to 10 meters are rated High Speed with
Ethernet. From 12 meters to 20 meters AudioQuest HDMI cables are
Standard Speed with Ethernet.
DIRECTIONALITY:
All audio cables are directional. The correct direction is determined
by listening to every batch of metal conductors used in every AudioQuest
audio cable. All signal conductors controlled for digital-audio
direction in AudioQuest HDMI cables, and care is even taken to run the
conductors used in the Audio Return Channel in the opposite direction to
ensure the best performance for that application. Arrows are clearly
marked on the connectors to ensure superior sound quality.