For Sale - 4.5 meter pair of Audioquest King Cobra IC's

treitz3

These would be great for subwoofer cables, which is where I have had them for the past 14 or so years. The length allows you to move the subs around a bit, without being limited to placement.

From the Music Direct website:

Music Direct wrote:

Best-Selling Interconnects: Built With PSC+ Copper, AudioQuest King Cobra Provides Detail, Excellent Clarity and Explosive Dynamics

AudioQuest's King Cobra interconnects are one of the greatest values in audio cables today, an affordable cable built to a standard far greater than the very reasonable price might suggest. King Cobra's unique combination of ingredients creates a cable that easily outperforms cables that are vastly more expensive. One look at King Cobra's cross section and the differences between King Cobra and traditional audio cables becomes immediately apparent. King Cobra uses AudioQuest's best copper, PSC+, and its performance is through the roof!

King Cobra's PSC+ conductors are exceptionally pure solid-core copper conductors treated with Audioquest's proprietary Perfect Surface Plus process which eliminates high frequency artifacts and distortions for a clearer view into any recording. King Cobra's solid-core conductors improve conductivity and eliminate the distortions that plague stranded cables, giving King Cobra a big, powerful and coherent presentation. The Triple Balanced Geometry, which uses a single PSC+ conductor for the positive and two for the negative, lowering the noise floor and improving the ground plane.

Each PSC+ conductor is then inserted into its own air tube; air tubes minimize contact between the conductor and the insulation improving conductivity, which gives King Cobra bigger, airier and more transparent performance. The positive conductor is then welded –using 8,000Amps- to the RCA connector. This means that from tip to tip, King Cobra has no breaks in its signal path. The positive conductor is literally one piece of copper from tip to tip. This welding process offers a smoothness and transparency for the audio signal that no soldered connection can possibly achieve.

All this attention to detail would be for naught if King Cobra wasn't shielded, so King Cobra has a foil shield & drain wire which keeps RFI & EMI from distorting the delicate signals contained within.

AudioQuest cables are legendary in audiophile circles for their neutrality and resolution. For 28 years, AudioQuest has worked tirelessly to achieve sonic neutrality in all their cables, regardless of price. Ensuring that music flows unchanged and uncolored requires removing the myriad distortions that occur when a signal flows through a cable. To accomplish this, AudioQuest bypassed conventional cable design and focused their efforts on both the physical properties and sonic characteristics of the conductors and connectors, as well as every other material used in the creation of their cables.

Now, granted....these are older King Cobras, so there may have been some changes. One thing I noticed was that the barrels at the end do not look like the ones pictured on the website. They are not the rounded, curved ones like you see on the new ones. They are the older type, like this.



The braiding is near perfect all the way across both cables. They do need a good cleaning at the RCA connection point and I'll do that with Caig DeOxit Gold before shipping them out.

Let's put them at a starting price of $200 for the pair. You would be hard pressed to find an IC this length at this cost. I'll include shipping in with this cost.....within the continental US.

PayPal F&F, MO, certified check is required for payment and they will be sent out after funds are received....or if I know you and trust you, I'll ship them before I even get payment and we can work out payment details that would work for both of us.

Be on the lookout for more cables to come. I don't need many of the ones I have and I've got a lot of them. Better they go to another home for good use, rather than just sit in a box with all of their friends and co-workers.

Tom

pitdogg2

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EndersShadow

Consider me on guard for more cables

treitz3

Weekend bump and price drop to $175 to your door.

Tom

newbie308

Would these be an upgrade compared to the Analysis plus oval one cables that I have?

treitz3

I personally cannot answer that, as I have no direct experience. The only Analysis Plus I have had in my rig is a PC. With that said, with many IC's (unless you are coming straight from stock Wal-Mart type IC's) aren't necessarily an "upgrade". They are just a different "flavor", if you will. A different sonic signature.

It's been a while since I changed out the IC's on my subs but these won out on all of the other sets I had back in the day for the sub(s). So, what that tells me is that these cables carry a really good (and not bloated, weak or exaggerated) amount of lower frequencies very well.

Sorry, I don't have anything else to offer other than that.

Tom