QED Reference X-Tube XT400

QED'S MULTI-AWARD WINNING XT400 SPEAKER CABLE, UTILISING X-TUBETM TECHNOLOGY

Silver-plated oxygen-free copper tubular conductor geometry. For use in the finest hi-fi and home theatre systems. This design delivers a massive cross-sectional area using X-TubeTMtechnology to eliminate the skin effect whilst maintaining a user friendly “figure of 8” geometry. This is QED’s ultimate affordable upgrade for high end systems

X-TUBE™ TECHNOLOGY

At low frequencies both X-TubeTM and conventional stranded/solid core speaker cables convey signals in a linear way. However, at high frequencies, X-TubeTMretains a near-linear signal transfer, whereas the conventional cable fails to conduct uniformly across the entire conductor area. The result is that X-TubeTMdelivers greater detail and fidelity across the audio spectrum which would other wise be lost in ordinary cables.


In standard speaker cables at high frequencies current flow is highest at the periphery with rapidly deteriorating current density towards the centre of the conductor.
The effect of this is to reduce the actual cross sectional area of the cable at 15kHz to less than 75% of that at low frequencies. This results in higher distortion and compromises the performance of the cable.

X-TubeTM with polycore technology exhibits much lower self-inductance and is therefore less affected by this problem. The polycore technology reduces loop inductance to levels only achievable using more costly and difficult to terminate cables.
The result is more high frequency detail, less distortion and greater performance

LARGE CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA

The 4mm2 cross sectional area means XT400 exhibits very low resistance, allowing amplifiers to exert outstanding control over the speakers they are driving. In addition, its large cross sectional area makes it suitable for long cable runs.

SPECIFICATIONS
  Wire gauge - 12 AWG Jacket OD - 6.00mm Cross-sectional area - 4.00mm² Loop resistance - 0.008 Ω/m Capacitance - 43pF/m Inductance - 0.50 µH/m Dissipation factor - 0.0400 Recommended for all high end installations For best results use QED Airloc™ Forte banana plugs