Audio Element is an authorized Transparent Audio dealer serving Southern California.
Transparent interconnects, speaker cables, and power cables are in daily use across our reference systems in Pasadena and Carlsbad. We can demonstrate the effect of Transparent cabling in a properly set-up system and help you choose the right level for your equipment.
Cables and power cords are the longest signal paths in audio and video systems. They act like antennas and pick up noise. Removing noise not only makes your listening and viewing experiences more involving, but it also leaves more energy for your components to perform at their best. Transparent products are the result of a relentless, decades-long pursuit to remove noise.
Audio, digital, and power signals have very different requirements to pass as accurately and as efficiently as possible from one component to another. Frequency, current, voltage, and impedance requirements apply uniquely to each, and each demands very different approaches to cable design, shielding, grounding schemes, terminations, and networks. Every Transparent design requires numerous prototypes and hours of listening and refining to get it right.
Transparent’s objective is to make sure that cabling has as little impact as possible on the performance potential of the system. This problem is more complex than it appears, particularly when it comes to transferring audio frequencies. Different lengths and different types of audio cables have different electrical characteristics. These differing electrical characteristics, no matter how small and incidental they may seem, affect the performance of the various components they link and the fundamental musical character of a system. Also, regardless of how short the cables are in a system, they are still the longest signal path.
Transparent Audio was founded in 1990 in Portland, Maine. Transparent’s defining technology is their patented network — a passive filter network housed in the cable itself, tuned to the specific characteristics of each cable model. The network eliminates cable-induced artifacts without adding the distortions that simple passive filtering can introduce.
At each level of the Transparent line — Plus, Super, Ultra, Reference, Opus, and Magnum Opus — the network becomes more sophisticated and the effect on system coherence more profound.
We don’t sell cables as an afterthought. Cable selection is part of every system we build at the higher levels. A $50,000 system with inadequate cables is leaving a significant portion of its potential unheard. Transparent Audio is our cable of choice for systems built around Wilson Audio and D’Agostino components.
Contact us at (626) 793-7229 to discuss which Transparent cables are right for your system.
