Cardas Copper

At the heart of a Cardas cable is Our Ultra-Pure Cardas Copper.

Mined in the Southwest USA and processed in the Northeast, we employ proprietary drawing and annealing techniques to create the highest quality, purest copper strands. A Single Poly-Nylon coating is applied to prevent oxidation and eliminate crosstalk between strands. The basic building blocks of a Cardas cable have been constant since day one: Our own, Ultra-Pure Copper, produced using our proprietary method. Multi-stranded Litz conductors, with strand size varying in Golden Ratio steps. Top quality dielectric materials and innovative air-tube dielectric suspension techniques. Premium connectors machined from copper & brass, plated with silver, and a flash of rhodium. Terminations performed by skilled craftsmen, using Cardas Quad Eutectic Solder and Cardas Rosin Flux Soldering Paste. These design elements were present in the original Cardas cables, like Quadlink & Hexlink, and former flagships such as Golden Cross & Golden Reference.
Our Clear cable line combines all of this with Matched Propagation Technology, the subject of George’s most recent patent (US Patent 7,674,973), which matches the propagation rate of the conductor to that of the dielectric, eliminating time-smear distortion, improving musical integrity and dynamic range.

Performance

Clear High-Speed Serial Buss takes our Clear Serial Buss USB cable and adds a special high-performance data cable using silver-plated conductors. Each conductor pair in both cables is discreetly shielded, and each cable has its own double-shield. This ultra-premium USB cable adds depth & realism, and improved imaging to your digital system. A noticeable improvement over our already high performing Clear Serial Buss. Clear High-Speed Serial Buss USB is ideal for use with high resolution digital audio.

Standard Terminations: USB A to B. Some custom terminations available. Hand terminated in Bandon, Oregon

Design/Construction

Conductors: Matched Propagation Kevlar core, ultra-fine Grade 1, 99.9999% pure oxygen free copper with SPN clear coat (Litz), gauge sizes scaled to Golden Ratio proportions. Cross-field layer geometry, insulated in ultra-thin extruded PTFE jacket. Solid core copper silver plated data conductors. Geometry: Dual asymmetrical star-quad 8 conductor. Signal carrying conductors are a shielded twisted pair. Power and signal conductors are bound with PFA tape. Final shield is aluminum/mylar, tin plated copper and magnet wire. Outer jacket is TPR. Gauge: 2×25.5 AWG + 2×21.5 AWG + 23.5 AWG + 30 AWG Outside Diameter: Approximately 0.453”/11.50mm