RESEARCH

Our Approach

When we set out to develop an exceptional range of cables, we started at the beginning; what affects the transfer of signals and music so much and what can we put in place to make sure that it is simply not changed?

To get to the bottom of the problem, we used straight forward science and of course listening to the results gave us the answers. Also we considered each stage of connectivity and what is important to that part of a system and what simply does not have any effect at all.

Below you will find each section of a typical system and our findings on what is important at each stage, this understanding is essential if you are producing a top range of cables.

Silver/Gold Power Series

A lot is said about Power these days and it is one of the most important parts to look at in the first instance.

Low Impedance

Impedance in a Power cable particularly affects the results of a system, a high impedance would simply throttle a power from giving your system the full potential when it needs it. This is especially important when driving bass notes, these notes mean that your system needs to drive that larger bass cones of your speaker and therefore they are going to need more power at those times, but they are going to need 'exactly' when they ask for it. this gives the effect of 'Grip' that is talked about in many reviews.

So what gives a Low Impedance? Materials are crucial here; the core material with the lowest impedance is Silver, this performs far better than any typical Copper and Gold

Also affecting the impedance was the construction of the cable, we found that some common constructions such as winding small core wires around each other increased the impedance tremendously. Also there is an increase in capacitance that is described below. To counter this, the construction of evenly spaced, heavy gauge individual solid cores gave the best results, with very low impedance, capacitance and inductance all in one place.

Low Capacitance

If you have high capacitance in a cable you create a lag in the cable that needs to be addressed before it provides your system what it requires, this is especially apparent in Audio as the requirements of an Amp are not consistant as music is clearly not all at the same frequencies.

Capacitance is created in wound conductors, so any cables produced by small cores wound around each other to give enough material to provide low impedance will have a high capacitance that will effect the end result.

To counter this problem we use of unwound solid cores, this is a more expensive route than small cores as the material cost is much higher, but we believe that this is the best route and therefore the only solution.

Inductance

Our designs happen to have a low inductance, but in a Power cable it is not important on such short runs when the overall impedance is negligible.

Shielding/Interference

Interference from Radio or Electrical sources at this point of the system can cause distortion in the end results; this is because the frequencies introduced in this stage of your system, would then be amplified to audible frequencies by your system.

To solve this we devised a unique design in the dielectric sheathes that shields the cable; with literally thousands of strands of silk in opposing directions, fine enough to translate and break the signal, we do not allow a signal to penetrate and interfere with the cores.
In addition to this, we also take out any particularly strong signals with large bore ferrites as a further precaution.