QED XT5 Power Cable

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QED XT5 Power Cable

The groundbreaking XT5 Power Cable analogue audio interconnect celebrates QED's 40 years at the forefront of British designed audio cables

XT5 Power Cable is an entirely new design concept from QED laboratories. The cordage is designed primarily for low capacitance as this has been identified by QED as a significant factor leading to a high-fidelity experience and makes for a tight sound retaining the rhythm of the original piece. Add our Complementary Conductor Technology™ for high frequency detail and our Analoc2™ technology to maximise signal integrity and the result is what we feel to be the most innovative interconnect ever made by QED. Please see our 'cables matter' section below for more in-depth information on this groundbreaking design.

  • ferrite
  • tri
  • low loss dielectric air gap
  • x tube technology xt
  • ofc4 oxygen freecopper
XT5 Power Cable

X-Tube technology

he braided individual cores in the live and neutral conductors are made small enough to resist eddy currents from adjacent cores, and as a consequence do not contribute to the ‘proximity effect’. The carefully calculated twist-rate of the individual strands ensures no two conductors are parallel for more than a few millimetres, furthering promoting even current flow at any and all frequencies. The separate bundles are individually isolated using K130PVC (to stabilise current capacitance and to exceed international safety standards), and cable inductance is controlled by giving the entire arrangement a hollow LDPE core.

Complete practicality

XT5 is designed to be as thin and flexible, and thus practical, as possible. Only the live and neutral cores have been given the X-Tube treatment described above - the earth core (required only under fault conditions) is left in a conventional geometry. And because X-Tube geometry enables the whole cross-sectional area of the cable to be kept to a tidy 1.5 mm sq, XT5 is supremely flexible and usefully slim despite its audiophile potential.

Ferrite insulation

To combat the corruption of the domestic mains supply, particularly by radio frequency noise injected into the supply by computer equipment, XT5 uses a ferrite-impregnated inner jacket, effectively wrapping the X-Tube cores in an impenetrable blanket of radio silence. Absorbing high-frequency noise signals in this way has already proved wildly successful in QED’s award-winning Audio 40 range of analogue and digital interconnects (with which XT5 is, of course, completely compatible).

Just listen

XT5’s numerous technological highlights help it perform brilliantly,, and we’re convinced it represents amazing value for money. The easiest way for you to understand what we mean is to hear it in action for yourself - we’re confident you’ll prefer it to any alternative power cable at anything like the price.

Give your audio equipment clean, stable current and let it perform to its maximum.By adapting the X-TubeTM technology it developed for its award-winning ranges of speaker cables to the specific requirements of mains cables, QED effectively regulates mains current flow, with results that are obvious when you listen.

XT5 utilises the proven and acclaimed X-Tube technology of QED’s award-winning loudspeaker cable ranges, and applies it to the specific requirements of a mains power cable.

By deploying its usual combination of through research and world-class engineering, QED has created a ground-breaking power cable that delivers clean, stable current to audio equipment - so that it can perform to its maximum potential.

Having played a large part in the creation of the very first specialist speaker cables and with over 47 years of unrivalled engineering excellence and expertise in the fields of hi-fi, home cinema cables and connectivity, no other company has demonstrated such relentless dedication to research and development combined with analytical listening tests.

QED knows full well the standard of the mains power that drives hi-fi equipment can have a profound effect on its performance. So, having achieved great and Award-winning results with its most recent speaker cables and analogue interconnects, QED’s engineers have now applied their unique methodology to power cables.

This single-minded determination to liberate the performance of hi-fi electronics of all kinds has resulted in XT5 - a mains cable that spotlights QED’s mastery of cable technology and sets entirely new standards of performance at the price.

As with any QED cable, an enormous amount of attention has been paid to the materials and geometry of XT5. In a drive to minimise the degrading ‘proximity effect’ created as current density accumulates in the conductors nearest to each other, QED has applied the lauded X-Tube technology first developed for its award-winning range of loudspeaker cables. By more effectively regulating current flow to audio equipment, the equipment is free to perform as its designers intended.

XT5 Power Cable
  • Ferrite insulation resists radio frequency noise
  • X-TubeTM technology means no two conductors are parallel for more than a few millimetres
  • Designed to be thin and flexible, and consequently as practical as possible
  • Terminated with MK Tough Plug 655
Conductor type: X-TubeTM
Metallurgy: 99.999% oxygen-free copper
Cross-sectional area: 1.5 mm2
Ferrite jacket: 10% Zn/Mn
Capacitance: 98 pF/m
Inductance: 0.52 μH/m
Loop resistance: 0.026 ohm/m
Dielectric strength: 2 kV (ac for 15 mins)
Complies with: EN50525; EN60320; EN60884
Outer jacket: Black Pearl
Nominal outside diameter: 11 mm
Plugs: UK - MK Tough Plug 655 blk
Connector: MK IEC C13 794
Hi-Fi Choice, 5 Stars, Recommended Award logo

“A high quality cable that proves to be a worthwhile investment for any audio system…Well-made and flexible mains cable that delivers on its promise.”

>>Hi-Fi Choice, 5 Stars, Recommended Award
Hi-Fi World, 5 Globes, September 2022 issue logo

“An attractively priced high-tech IEC cable that can make a real difference…Outstanding – amongst the best.”

>>Hi-Fi World, 5 Globes, September 2022 issue

WHAT THIS CABLE IS USED FOR

PERFORMANCEAUDIO INTERCONNECT (Analogue)
CONNECT YOUR: Amplifier
Amplifier
AV Receiver
AV Receiver
CD player
CD player
Headphone amp
Headphone amp
DAC
DAC
TO YOUR: Power source
Power source
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