Cardas Audio

Cardas’ cable design incorporates patented, Golden Ratio, Constant Q, Cross-Field, pure copper Litz, conductor technology. Why should I use it? What will it do for my system?

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 Cardas received U.S. Patent Number 4,628,151 for creating Golden Section Stranding Audio Cable. It is truly unique. 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.

 

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High Speed Data Transmission Cable Video/Digital

An absolutely excellent video/digital cable. "Golden Section", Crossfield design and construction.

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Lightning

20.5 awg. Digital Transmission Cable. "Golden Section", Crossfield design and construction.

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Lightning 15

15.5 awg. Digital Transmission Cable. "Golden Section", Crossfield design and construction.

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Lightning 18

18.5 awg. Digital Transmission Cable. "Golden Section", Crossfield design and construction.

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AES/EBU

The industry standard for digital transmission. 20.5 awg. "Golden Section", Crossfield, design and construction.

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• Video cable

Golden Presence Video

A component video cable developed specifically for high performance video applications.

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Neutral Reference Video

A "Top Line" video cable and an excellent digital transmission link for both AES/EBU and SPDIF applications. "Golden Section", Matched Propagation, design and construction.

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High Speed Data Transmission Cable Video/Digital

An absolutely excellent video/digital cable. "Golden Section", Crossfield design and construction.

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Precision Video

Our latest video cable combines our patented conductor geometry with a simple coax design, creating a budget priced, yet high performance cable.

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• Phono cable

Golden Reference Phono

Highly articulate, maximum detail. "Golden Section", Matched Propagation, reference design and construction.

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Golden Presence Phono

Very articulate and detailed. "Golden Section", Matched Propagation, non directional reference design and construction.

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Neutral Reference Phono

The reference cable in many systems. "Golden Section", Matched Propagation, reference design and construction.

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Golden Cross Phono

Warm and musical. Our most popular phono cable. Shown with a straight DIN plug. Available with a straight or right angle DIN plug.

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Cross Phono

Very popular. "Golden Section, Crossfield design and construction.

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iLink Cable

We have adapted our Headphone Cable, with an 1/8" mini plug and dual RCA's, to connect portable players to primary systems. It was designated the "iLink Cable" during development and the name stuck. The standard iLink cable is available in 1/2 meter, 10', 15' and 20' lengths, with additional 1/2 meter lengths available.

 

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Musician's Reference

This Golden Section Stranded, guitar and instrument cable is the industry reference standard. It has extremely low microphonics. While this Golden Section Stranded coaxial earned its name as a Pro Audio cable, it is also the perfect interconnect match to our SE line of speaker cables. It excels with all single ended electronics, especially with SET amplifiers.

As a musician's cable it is terminated with Cardas 1/4" phono plugs and custom lengths are available. As an SE Interconnect it is terminated with RCAs.

 

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Crosslink Interconnect

Crosslink is our least expensive cable. It is the only Cardas cable sold in bulk, and it can be terminated by a Cardas dealer.


It is very flexible and light weight. Multi-gauge, Golden Section, Constant Q conductors are used. Teflon® and cotton create the dielectric, with double shielding and a neoprene jacket. Crosslink is great for automotive installations and small home audio systems.

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300B Microtwin Interconnect

300-B Microtwin: entry level cable, flexible, light, easy on the budget. Very popular starter cable. Teflon®, Cotton dielectric, 23 awg, "Golden section" constant Q" enameled" Multi-gauge litz" conductors, multi-gauge quad-ax construction, doubleshielded, neoprene jacket.

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Quadlink-Five C Interconnect

Quadlink is the ever popular mid-line interconnect cable. Teflon dielectric, 16.5 awg, "Golden section: "constant Q" enameled "Multi-gauge litz" conductors, balanced quad-axial construction, double shielded, urethane jacket.

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Cross Interconnect

Cross interconnect is a new light and flexible cable. Very popular. Teflon-air dielectric, 17.5awg, air suspension, Golden section, Constant Q, Crossfield, litz, double shielding, symmetrical quad-axial cable construction, urethane jacket.

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Golden Cross Interconnect

Golden Cross interconnect is the traditional top of the line.  Multi-gauge helical hex-axial, (16.5 awg) Air-Teflon dielectric, air suspension, Golden section, Constant Q, Crossfield, Multi-gauge, litz, double shielding. Extremely popular. Indisputably the world's favorite interconnect cable.

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Neutral Reference Interconnect

Cardas Neutral Reference interconnect is a perfectly neutral reference cable. It sounds the same at any length, whether one or thirty feet, between any component, at any originating or terminating impedance. Neutral Reference is perfectly symmetrical and non-directional. It can be terminated either single-ended or balanced. Neutral Reference has extremely low capacitance, inductance and reactance.

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Golden Preserence Interconnect

Golden Presence Interconnect is a somewhat simplified version of Golden Reference and fits between our Golden and Neutral Reference cables in the product line. It has less shielding, but uses the same conductors and dielectrics. It is non directional like the other Reference cables. In terms of sonics, it maintains the neutrality of Neutral Reference, but has the added resolution of Golden Reference, without being as critical of a less than perfect listening room or recording.

 

 

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Golden Reference Interconnect

Golden Reference is an evolutionary interconnect design by George Cardas. It features Cardas patented “Golden Section”, multi-gauge stranding in a symmetrical, helical tri-axial design. Thin wall Teflon® air tubes are used as dielectric and provide air suspension for the conductors. Cardas patented, “Constant-Q” construction places the smallest of the Golden Ratio strands at the center of the conductor to reduce stored energy and conductor resonance.


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Clear

Clear interconnect is the continuation of my "pursuit for perfection". Clear is the geometry of our Golden Reference interconnect, but highly refined. Clear is current, state of the art dielectrics and metallurgy. Clear marries the two with an ultra fine, stranded, tubular conductor. Clear is the vision of perfect geometry.

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• Speaker cable

SE 15

SE cables are optimized for single ended amplifiers and high efficiency loud speakers. They are Golden Ratio, concentric, asymmetrical, coaxial cables. The smallest gauge size the speaker will permit should be used. SE cables do not have a high "Q" like conventional cables, because efficient speakers do not demand it. They have dramatically low energy storage for their size, which makes them ideally suited for horns and other highly efficient speakers.

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SE 11

SE cables are optimized for single ended amplifiers and high efficiency loud speakers. They are Golden Ratio, concentric, asymmetrical, coaxial cables. The smallest gauge size the speaker will permit should be used. SE cables do not have a high "Q" like conventional cables, because efficient speakers do not demand it. They have dramatically low energy storage for their size, which makes them ideally suited for horns and other highly efficient speakers.

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SE 9

SE cables are optimized for single ended amplifiers and high efficiency loud speakers. They are Golden Ratio, concentric, asymmetrical, coaxial cables. The smallest gauge size the speaker will permit should be used. SE cables do not have a high "Q" like conventional cables, because efficient speakers do not demand it. They have dramatically low energy storage for their size, which makes them ideally suited for horns and other highly efficient speakers.

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Crosslink Speaker

Crosslink is our least expensive cable. It is the only Cardas cable sold in bulk, and it can be terminated by a Cardas dealer. It is very flexible and light weight. Multi-gauge, Golden Section, Constant Q conductors are used. Crosslink has flame retardant EEA and cotton for the dielectric, with a PVC jacket, making it CL 2 rated. Crosslink is great for home theater, in-wall, automotive and small home audio systems.

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Twinlink Speaker

Twinlink is a small speaker cable for very efficient home audio speakers and automotive use. 11.5 awg twin-ax construction, Teflon/cotton dielectric "Golden Section" constant Q" enameled litz, shielded.

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Quadlink-Five C Speaker

Quadlink works best with small relatively efficient home audio speakers. 12.5 awg quad-ax construction, Teflon/air dielectric, "Golden Section" "constant Q" enameled "Multi-gauge litz" Conductors, urethane jacket.

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Cross Speaker

Cross speaker is a medium size cable that is internally bi-wireable. It may be used on virtually any speaker. It is a 10 awg, with Teflon/air dielectric, Golden Ratio Constant "Q" Crossfield litz conductors, Golden Ratio, Quad-axial construction and a vinyl jacket.

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Golden Cross Speaker

Golden Cross is our top of the line speaker cable. In its standard form it is suitable for any loudspeaker, it is internally bi and tri wireable. This is the reference standard for many speaker manufactures.

5.5 awg, Teflon/air dielectric "Golden section" constant "Q", enameled "multi-gauge" "crossfield" "litz" Conductors, Double Hex crossfield cabling urethane jacket.

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Golden Presence Speaker

Golden Presence Speaker cables are designed and constructed using two pair of concentrically wound, Golden Section Stranded conductors which are terminated symmetrically. This four conductor cable is designed to bridge the performance of Neutral Reference and Golden Reference. Golden Presence Speaker cables are non directional. They use the same high quality dielectrics and copper found in our other Reference cables. Golden Presence Speaker cables have received high marks for neutrality, transparency, and that famous Cardas midrange.

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Neutral Reference Speaker

Cardas Neutral Reference speaker is designed as a perfectly neutral reference cable. It sounds the same at any length, whether one or thirty feet, between any component, at any originating or terminating impedance. Neutral Reference is perfectly symmetrical and non-directional. It can be terminated either single or bi-wired. Features "Golden Section", Matched Propagation, reference design and construction.

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Golden Reference Speaker

Golden Reference speaker is an evolutionary speaker cable design by George Cardas. It features Cardas patented "Golden Section", multi-gauge stranding in a symmetrical, 12 conductor, helical triad of quad-axial planetary arrays of golden ratio, constant Q conductors.


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Clear Speaker

Clear speaker cables are the outgrowth of years of intense refinements to every aspect of speaker cable design. New metallurgical drawing and refining techniques have yielded a new, extremely low eddy current copper. The geometry is a perfect mirror, matched propagation design that is as near to perfection as any ever envisioned. The connectors and the connection techniques are, without a doubt, the best ever devised. Clear Speaker cable is perfect for most amplifier speaker combinations.

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Clear Beyond

Clear Beyond is simply that, it is beyond the demands of any loud speaker or amplifier combination imaginable. No impedance dip or current flow demand is a challenge in any way. Clear Beyond is simply overkill for all but the most extreme systems. Clear was not easy. I took a year just to developed the multi-stage, pure fusion connector to conductor connection. It required engineering special dies, then endless hours of fiddling with 10,000 psi hydraulic gear, creating perfectly matched, fully machined connectors. All conductors required tedious individual strand chemical stripping of the litz wire. Because every detail of these cables is so time consuming, their production will be limited for the foreseeable future.

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• Power cable

Twinlink Power

Twinlink is a small (11 awg) power cord that is light weight and flexible. It is designed for front end components such as pre-amplifiers, CD players, turn tables, etc.

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Quadlink Power

Quadlink is a medium size power cord which is suitable for small amplifiers or large power supply preamps, etc.

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Original Cross Power

Original Cross blue. A cosmetic change was made to Cross, and it is now a new brown color. The change from blue to brown is the only difference between the original and new Cross cable.

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Cross Power

Cross is a shielded, medium diameter power cord suitable for large power supply pre-amps and amplifiers rated at less than 300 watts.

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Golden Power

A large diameter cord, the optimum for any audio component where flexibility and cable weight are not an issue. Cardas power cords provide a very low noise path from the wall plug to your components, eliminating internal noise generation/radiation and attenuating component generated noise (clock signals, etc.).

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Golden Reference Power

The Golden Reference power cord provides the ultimate current flow, excellent isolation between components and broad band power line filtration. It is shielded and relatively flexible for its size.

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• Accessories

Golden Cuboids

Made from the rarest of all woods, the legendary Myrtle tree. Denser than Oak and a very complex grain, make Golden Cuboids excellent resonance dampers.

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• Accessories

Contact Conditioner

Cardas Contact Conditioner cleans and improves all electrical contact surfaces.

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• Accessories

RCA Caps

Fit over unused female RCA connectors to eliminate EMI and RF noise absorption. They also protect from dust and corrosion.

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RCA Signature Series Caps

Signature Series RCA Caps with our Nautilus. The ultimate shield against RFI, EMI, dust and corrosion.

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XLR Signature Series Caps

Fit over unused XLR connectors to eliminate EMI and RF noise absorption. They feature the Signature Series Nautilus logo.

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BNC Signature Series Caps

Cardas BNC Protective Caps fit over unused connectors in the audio system to prevent EMI and RFI from entering the chassis.

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S-Video Signature Series Caps

Cardas S-Video Protective Caps fit over unused connectors in the audio system to prevent EMI and RFI from entering the chassis.

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• Adapters

CPTB Naim Converter Box

CPTB-Naim Converter Box allows use of RCA terminated cables.

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• Adapters

Cardas Male XLR to RCA Adapter

Cardas Male XLR to Female RCA Adapter, all new George Cardas design. These connectors have a unique end shielding technique that blocks RF and Clock signals.

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Cardas Female XLR to RCA Adapter

Cardas Female XLR to Female RCA Adapter, all new George Cardas design. These connectors have a unique end shielding technique that blocks RF and Clock signals.

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RCA to XLR Adapter

These custom made adapters mate a Cardas GRFA female or GRMO male RCA connector to either a female or male XLR. They feature Rhodium and Silver contact surfaces.

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