Chord Clearway Speaker Cable

Chord Clearway speaker cable borrows key ideas from our recent development projects.  Clearway refines 30 years of Chord know-how into a ground-breaking, highly affordable new speaker cable.

Chord Clearway speaker cable features two contra-wound high-density foil shields. Like many Chord speaker cables, the twin foils, combined with the twisted-pair configuration, make for a level of shielding that is effective to high frequencies.  Finally, a clear protective PVC jacket is applied, which again serves to further reduce any mechanically induced noise.

During the development of Clearway, valuable research was carried out in relation to the behaviour of conductors and different dielectrics (insulation).  For a long time, we have understood the importance of the relationship between conductor materials and insulation, and its silver-plated speaker cables make extensive use of PTFE as an insulation material.

The type of insulation doesn’t just affect a cable’s ability to carry signals accurately, it also has an effect on the tonal characteristics that the cable brings to the system. This often takes the form of an unwanted increase in bass frequencies, which directly limits a system’s ability to produce music with coherence and involvement.

Typically, cables that use oxygen-free copper as a conductor material will use either polyethylene or PVC as an insulating material.  What sets The Chord Company’s Clearway speaker cable apart is its use of FEP: a derivative of PTFE with very similar performance characteristics.  Compared to polyethylene, the FEP-insulated Clearway carries both detail and dynamic information markedly more accurately.  The tonal properties of the cable are also considerably more neutral.

The FEP-insulated conductors are built from multi-strand oxygen-free copper and are arranged in a twisted-pair configuration to reduce interference.  The two conductors are then protected with a layer of soft PVC (which was chosen over polyethylene because of its flexibility), in order to correctly space the shielding in relation to the conductors and to minimise any mechanically induced noise. 

HIGH-FREQUENCY SHIELDING

High-performance shielding is specified and just like the award-winning Carnival SilverScreen, Chord Clearway speaker cable features two contra-wound high-density foil shields. Like many Chord speaker cables, the twin foils, combined with the twisted-pair configuration, make for a level of shielding that is effective to high frequencies.  Finally, a clear protective PVC jacket is applied, which again serves to further reduce any mechanically induced noise. 

“I am particularly pleased with the new Clearway.  The cable has qualities that would normally be associated with considerably more expensive cables.  The use of high-quality oxygen-free copper FEP insulation and high-density foil shielding means that at £10, it will be pretty hard to produce a better-performing speaker cable.  Chord has tested the cable in all levels of systems and in every case, whether entry-level or high-end, the levels of clarity, detail, dynamics and critically, musical coherence, are really impressive.”

            –Nigel Finn, Technical Director of The Chord Company on Clearway

SPECIFICATIONS:

• Conductors: 2 x 14AWG, bare stranded copper with FEP insulation in a twisted pair configuration.
• White PVC inner jacket
• 2 x Foil Shield
• Transparent PVC outer jacket
• Cable outer dia: 10.5mm
• Available in unterminated lengths and in terminated sets, fitted with 4mm banana, spade or BFA plugs.

Payment

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Returns

We want you to feel happy with your purchase, so if for any reason you are not, you may send your item(s) back to us within 14 days for a full refund or exchange-free of charge.

Please note, postage costs are non refundable except in the following circumstances:

* the item you receive is different to that ordered.

* OR the item you receive is damaged or faulty.

In the above cases a full refund/exchange will be issued including any additional postage costs incurred by the buyer.*

*Please note, we can only refund up to the minimum postage amount required to send your item(s) back to us. Therefore, we always recommend that items be returned to us using royal mails 2nd class service with recorded delivery for insurance purposes.

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All refunds will be issued via your original method of payment and normally take up to 3 working days to process.