This is a proper fully balanced and grounded 4.4mm TRRRS to 2 x 3pin XLR cable designed to link a balanced player to an amplifier. May similar cables you see for sale use 4 wires or a bultiple of 4 like 8 or 16. This normally means they do not have the ground wires connected and may cause hum on some amplifiers. This is a 6 wire cable so all 3 pins of each XLR are connected with both grounds going to the sleeve on the TRRRS to ensure maximum compatibility
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1. What
material is the wire made of and why?
Our with is made from OFC Litz
copper. Each core is made up of 84 individually insulated strands of 0.071mm
diameter copper. They
are held together by natural silk fibres and covered with an over sized nylon
outer cover to give a decent air gap between cores.
1.1 Why OFC copper rather than OCC or Silver.
For the same cross-sectional area, silver is about 7% more conductive than copper
but if you double the cross sectional area you can roughly halve the impedance
so it is much cheaper to just use more copper to get the same improvements. By
using a thicker copper wire we can get better impedance figures then a thinner
silver cable. OCC has some definite advantages but being more flexible but as
our strands are so thin the wire is very flexible already.
2. What
is the advantage of Litz vs stranded copper ( Skin effect )
With a standard stranded copper wire ,as charge can move from one strand to
another, they act as one thick solid conductor.
Skin effect pushes higher frequencies out to the edges of the wire meaning they
are traveling through less of the area of the cable. The skin depth reduces as
the frequency increases so on thin cables it is not a problem for audio
frequencies.
In our Litz wire, each strand is individually insulated from each other so they
act like 84 individual thin very wires rather than one large one. This ensures
that despite the increased thickness of our wire, there is no skin effect until
the frequency gets over 700khz so even the highest rez audio will not get
rolled off at the top.
3. What
is the capacitance and impedance of your cable and how does that effect things.
Our cables have some of the lowest capacitance of any that we have tested this
was one of the main goals we had when designing it as capacitance it most
likely to give an audible effect. Typically one of our cables will have around
20pF – 40 pF for a 2m cable depending on the connectors used. As a comparison,
A standard HD600 cable has a capacitance of 600pF
The impedance of a capacitor changes with frequency which is why we try to keep
it as low as possible.
Our wire has a DC resistance of 0.05 ohms per meter which is very low and as we
keep the capacitance and skin effect incredibly low it gives a pretty much
perfectly flat impedance across all audio frequencies from 1hz right up to
100+KHz
4. How
does your cable sound?
As mentioned above, our cables are designed to keep the signal as pure as possible
with a perfectly flat response. We believe you should not use a cable as “tone
control” and the sound is as good as it is going to get as it leaves the amp –
the cable’s job is to get the signal to the headphones without adding or
removing anything from the sound.
5. What
are the ergonomics like?
Ergonomics are almost as important as the electrical performance – You could
great sounding cable but if it is stiff or heavy it can be distracting and
spoil your listening experience.
Despite our cables being “thick boys”, as they are mostly air inside to give an
air dielectric, they are actually quite light and very flexible. As the cable
has a bit of spring to it, it can also reduce the pressure on your equipment if
you accidentally yank the cable.
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