Description

The Ultimate is an absolute sonic triumph which totally redefines the contribution that power cables can make to ultimate fidelity.

A complex of soft fabric layers protect conductors avoiding vibration pick up and the whole assembly has such limpness that vibration distortion, a massive enemy of ultimate fidelity, as is normally transmitted directly to the circuit board heart of every element of your system though power cabling, is completely eliminated.

The individual power conductors on these cables feature massive 41 Amps rang 12 AWG extreme high purity copper cores insulated with specially formulated, ultra so silicone dielectric. Over this three different highly flexible nanotechnology membranes are sequentially applied:

• The first contains complex assemblies of carbon atoms formed into a variety of elaborate molecular formats, these structures intercept incoming airborne interference frequencies confusing, absorbing and neutralizing them, they further seek out unwanted frequencies being transmitted through the power conductors themselves absorbing and neutralizing these also .
• The second layer is a magnetic barrier the inclusion of which enables a significantly more comprehensive and effective overall barrier to electromagnetic interference waves than the usual copper and mylar screens of other exoc cords. This magnetic barrier when combined with the third layer our carbon resistive absorptive screen, creates an EMI barrier that is totally unsurpassed in its comprehensive efficacy.
• The ground conductor is treated along its entire length with a highly flexible and complex polycrystalline metals layer that draws out and neutralizes interference frequencies present on the ground line. The sum of all of these ground breaking design and materials features is a power cable absolutely like no other in this world and one that will elevate your systems performance to enrely new heights.

Sonically the thickness of the silicone covering the conductors and the thickness of the silicone sheath proved critical as did the degree of twist applied to the conductors over their length and these values were established over extensive listening tests.

You will note the emphasis given to the need to have a very flexible, indeed floppy cable. Vibration distortion introduced by mains connections is a massively underestimated phenomena; mains cables exist in the room that music is playing – therefore they are being rattled and shaken by the music beats. Common amongst cable builders is to use heavy gauge cable with stiff metal sheathing. The stiffer the cable the more vibration it picks up and the more efficiently it transmits, without loss, every shudder to its ends. And at each end of the cable there is a plug pin and connector clip gripping that pin to make the contact. Introduce vibration and that contact is rubbing two metal surfaces along with the music, creating micro disturbances in the connection and hence in the electron flow.

This is something that we know has to be avoided and that is exactly what we achieve with the flexible stranded formulation of our conductors, very soft insulation layers, unique proprietary highly flexible proprietary shielding and loose, soft fabric covering to provide a cable that is cushioned against picking up vibrations in the first instance and then designed to dampen and absorb those that do get through.

In contrast to the stiff metal braiding and/or metalized mylar wrappings normally used, we shield our cables with our own very unique ultra flexible carbon-polymer nanotechnology barrier which provides a resistive shield capable not only of blocking RFI but absorbing a good amount of it in resistive paths before it reaches the drain connection at ground.

Of vital importance is the quality of the pins, terminals and connector grips at each end of the cable and here we have paid every attention; in particular to the gauge, form and materials quality of the phosphor bronze grips for the contacts which is extremely paramount.

After very much evaluation we steered away from exotic platings for our plugs and connectors: Brass, Phosphor Bronze and Nickel as found on the vast majority of plug pins and contact clips are all galvanically in a very similar voltage band whereas Gold, Silver, Platinum and Rhodium occupy a band 0.35V away.

Mating galvanically dissimilar plug pins and contact clips is a recipe for degraded performance due to the introduction of galvanically induced voltages (further exacerbated by vibration). As our mains plugs are almost invariably going to be introduced to wall sockets with phosphor bronze contact grips and equipment inputs with nickel plated brass input receptacles, we utilise materials for our plugs and connectors to be galvanically neutral in actual user situations. Our extensive listening tests proved this logic to be sonically correct.

We believe, and our ears agree, that by following the real science and technical challenges for this item we have succeeded in creating a phenomenal audiophile product providing truly outstanding performance at a very realistic price.

For our Ultimate cable project we formulated a highly flexible, nanotechnology magnetic barrier, a totally unique development . No other cable looks to deals with the magnetic aspects of EMI. The clue to the importance of which is in the name “Electro Magnetic Interference”.

The complex construction of our supremely performing Ultimate cable makes them a costly but very worthwhile investment. But in order to service a wider spectrum of audiophiles we decided to make the exciting development of our Mag Shield available in a more affordably priced cable by adding a MagShield layer to the Carbon Resistive layer on the Classic cable to create the Classic Plus the Classic Plus improves on the fantastic definition and articulation provided by the Classic inching it further towards the utterly sublime performance of the Ultimate.