Need Help with Speaker Cable ID. What are they?

Zd542
"Its not Midnight. The OP's picture has 4 internal multi-strand conductors. 2 red and 2 black. The origional AQ Midnight looked similar but it wasn't the same. All of the solid core conductors, while smaller than typical, each had their own jacket. And yes, they were not configured like later versions of midnight. The strands were braided similar to how Kimber's look. Its easy enough to verify. Just call AQ and have them look at the OP's pic."

I'm not going to belabor on this any more. I owned the cable for years and re-terminated it many times. I am intimately familiar with it. Each strand on my version, and the one the OP has shown in the pic (which matches my pic BTW....did you look?) is absolutely not individually insulated. Each insulated conductor is comprised of around 12-15 fairly thick strands. And as a matter of fact,I did did email Audioquest on this cable trying to find more about it because it didn't match their later versions with the + signs or the hyperlitz. It was made so long ago the guy I got wasn't even familiar with it.

I was a dealer at the time when those cables were current. The OP's cable was not the same as the original Midnight. If you can find some old sales literature or a box, AQ always shows a cross section of their cables. The link to your pic was no good. Its very likely that you either had a fake set, or its possible you may have had a set of demo cables. During the design process, AQ makes up test cables and gives them out to dealers and people they know, so they can get some input. Even if it was labeled Midnight, It still could be a test cable. The Midnight jacket may have been the right size for whatever they were making up. That would easily explain why they are having a hard time matching one of their production cables to your pic.

Did you mean the link didn't work or that the pic doesn't help?
Here's the link and I did test it but you have to cut and paste it of course.
http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?118952-Speaker-cable&highlight=audioquest+midnight

"07-24-14: Dragon1952
Did you mean the link didn't work or that the pic doesn't help?
Here's the link and I did test it but you have to cut and paste it of course.
http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?118952-Speaker-cable&highlight=audioquest+midnight"

I just tried it and got this message:

To view this thread or threads in this forum your post count must be 100 or greater. Your post count is 0 momentarily.

It looks like the address isn't bad. I guess I don't have all the requirements you need to access where your pic is.

My be FMS blue.