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Cardas Crosslink Interconnect

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Crosslink is Cardas’ entry-level interconnect cable and a wonderful introduction to the high quality cabling that Cardas produces. If you’re looking to improve the sound of your system and haven’t tried the Cardas advantage Crosslink might be the cable for you!

Description

Crosslink is Cardas’ entry-level interconnect cable. Crosslink is available as a finished cable, terminated by Cardas Audio, and it is also their only interconnect cable available in bulk. Crosslink is ideal for smaller systems, home theater and car audio.

Technical Specifications:

Construction:
.300″ O.D., Cardas copper, PFA dielectric, 2 x 20.5 AWG conductors, Golden section, Crossfield, litz, spiral shield, neoprene jacket.

Measurements:
RCA Capacitance: 36.9 pf/ft
XLR Capacitance: 22.8 pf/ft

Termination Options:
Crosslink is terminated with GRCM RCA plugs, or Neutrik XLRs.

The Cardas Philosophy

It is said, wire is just wire. In reality, a high-end audio cable must balance resistance, capacitance, inductance, conductance, velocity of propagation, RF radiation and absorption, mechanical resonance, strand interaction, high filtering, reflections, electrical resonance, dissipation factors, envelope delay, phase distortion, harmonic distortion, structural return loss, corrosion, cross-talk, bridge-tap and the interaction of these and a hundred other things. As a high-end cable manufacturer, Cardas Audio strives to address every detail of cable and conductor construction, no matter how small.

An elegant solution deals with quality, not quantity. Cable geometry problems are resolved in the cable’s design, not after the fact with filters. George introduced the concept of Golden Section Constant “Q” Stranding to high-end audio, but Golden Ratio, 1.6180339887… : 1 is as old as nature itself. Golden Ratio is the mathematical proportion of life itself, the heart of musical scales and chords. “Discovered” by the Greeks, but used by the Egyptians in the Great Pyramid centuries before, man has employed Golden Ratio to create his most beautiful and naturally pleasing works of art and architecture.

The signal used by your system, be it digital or analog, through tube or solid state, is always alternating current. The cyclic effect of alternating current vibrates the wire in your system like the strumming of a guitar string. The beating of the capacitive, inductive and mechanical elements in audio cable is set in motion by the transient energy of the audio signal, just as the guitar string is set into motion by the strike of a pick. This form of vibration or resonance distorts the audio signal and produces many sound anomalies, from colored bass to glare. Every interconnect, every speaker cable, every chassis and speaker wire has its own resonant signature. Like the mass, tension and hardness of the guitar string, the mass, tension and hardness of the conductor, coupled with its inductance and resistance, and the capacitance of the cable, determine what sound is made. Each strand in a cable has its own note or beat. Conductor strands interact with other same sized, near unison, and multiplistic sized strands creating beats the same way a cube listening room would, or one with multiplistic dimensions like 8’ x 16’ x 32.

Stereo systems depend on the purity of the audio signal. When the cable linking all components together imparts its own sound, the audio signal is corrupted. Cardas created a conductor that absorbs or cancels the noise released by the current fluxuation, by progressively layering strands that share no common resonant multiple. This conductor uses the same mathematical proportioning seen in the worlds greatest concert halls for essentially the same reasons. The infinite indivisibility of the Fibonacci Sequence or Golden Section is a key to controlling resonance. The ratio of ø (Phi), or 1 to 1.6180339887… to (infinity), is the Golden Mean, called Golden Ratio or Golden Proportion.

We have a wide range of Cardas products for you to demo inside the shop!

If you’re looking for additional terminations or customized lengths please call the store at (626) 793 7229

Additional information

Weight7 lbs
Dimensions13 × 12.5 × 3 in
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