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| Cable Design: Conductor |
| Technology behind Studio Connections Cable |
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We use a mix of pure copper and silver plated copper to make our conductors with. Silver is the best conductor material
known, and copper is very close at only 3% less. Gold is a poor conductor, some 40% less than copper, and is generally
only used to plate connectors to prevent corrosion. Our method of using a combination of both copper and silver enhances
the response to be better than that of even pure silver. Lets explain:
At high frequencies, electrons flow on the surface of a conductor. By plating strands, we create a very thin coat of
silver. The junction of the silver and copper creates a miniscule voltage between the two metals (junction voltage). As
far as ultra high frequencies this effectively creates an ultra thin, low resistance silver 'tunnel' on the copper surface
that only high frequencies can access. This provides an enhanced 'high-pass' conductor for subtle high frequency content
that would normally be lost.
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The junction voltage between the copper and silver would be a problem if all the strands were plated; there would always be a
transition 'blip'. However, we plate only 3 out of 7 strands. This means that whilst the silver plated strands provide an easy
path for ultra high frequencies, the unplated, pure copper strands are there in parallel to simultaneously carry all lower frequencies
without any transition effect that would occur in the plated strands.
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To summarise: Our selective silver plated technique compensates for phase delay and losses that normally occur in cables at high
frequencies. The silver plated and plain copper strands work in parallel; conduction starts in the silver and then migrates to
the copper seamlessly, copper conduction taking over from the silver below very high lower frequencies. Pure silver alone would
not create this special high pass channel. The fact copper is only 3% less conductive than silver means we just simply using more
copper! The overall effect is a conductor system that actually combats high frequency phase distortion in a creative way that our
performs pure silver.
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