Despite its “junior” status compared to models AudioQuest’s upper echelons, the new Brave Heart loudspeaker cables feature the company’s latest advanced materials and technologies.
Part of the ‘Folk Heroes’ line, Brave Heart speaker cables step up the overall gauge and materials architecture of the company’s highly acclaimed, and soon to be phased out, William Tell cables. Brave Heart increases the conductor content by upping the PSC+ gauge by one third while maintaining cable manageability/flexibility, despite the 0.6 mm diameter increase. This has partly come about by separating the positive and negative into independent runs. AudioQuest claims the diameter and conductor improvements result in better preservation of Damping Factor and a flatter frequency response.
The PSC+ (Perfect Surface Copper+) conductors are AudioQuest’s own solid core formula based on direction-drawn, long-grain, highest purity copper which is annealed in a two-step process. The conductors are in-turn heavily polypropylene insulated. Designed to reduce RF noise, Brave Heart incorporates multiple thick layers of carbon-loaded PVC and a Graphene mesh, while the drain wire features 12 times the amount of silver.
Brave Heart features AudioQuest’s patented 72V Dielectric Bias System (DBS) which is also designed to reduce RF noise. Again, with the warranted obsession of reducing RF noise, AudioQuest eschews RF-conducting metals in the plug barrels of the banana and spade lugs (the conductor interface is cold-welded and gas-tight) as well as the cable dressing trim.
As incorporated in the upmarket Folk Heroes and Mythical Creatures lines, Brave Heart features AudioQuest’s ZERO-Tech technology. ZERO-Tech is claimed to eliminate “characteristic-impedance” mismatches between the cable and the source load, resulting in what the company states is unencumbered flow while “presenting music and soundtracks as if out of nowhere”.
Advance Audio Product Manager Darren Lawrence told SoundStage! Australia, “Brave Heart features the very best of AudioQuest’s latest technology … The result? A cable that’s bigger, quieter, more flexible, and delivers better performance than ever before.”
The new AudioQuest Brave Heart loudspeaker cables will be available from the end of August 2025 via Australian distributor Advance Audio’s country wide specialist dealer network.
AudioQuest Brave Heart Loudspeaker Cables
Price: From AU$5995
Australian Distributor: Advance Audio Australia
+61 2 9561 0799
www.advanceaudio.com.au
