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Cardas · Clear Beyond
From $4,250 per pair
Not currently in our rooms. For a serious buyer we will often bring a piece in from the manufacturer for a private session — tell us about your system and what you are weighing it against, and we will advise.
Cardas · Clear Beyond
Cardas's flagship interconnect: the most advanced Matched Propagation conductors Cardas makes, in a star-quad suspended in air, built to order and terminated only by the senior technicians in Bandon.
Price is for a pair at the shortest length shown. Choose length and RCA or XLR connectors in the selector.
Authorized Cardas dealer · Delivery and installation by Pearl Audio · Trade-ins welcome
The story
Clear Beyond Interconnect uses four 26.5 AWG Matched Propagation conductors whose Litz strands run from an ultra-fine 47 AWG up to 39 AWG in Golden Ratio steps, each insulated in ultra-thin extruded PTFE. The four are arranged as a star quad around anti-static air tubes, and a second layer of larger air tubes holds the composite shield of tinned copper and magnet wire away from the signal conductors.
At 13 mm it is a substantial cable, which is why single-ended pairs use the SRCA with Cardas's 13 mm adaptor and balanced pairs use a redesigned CG XLR. Cardas describes it as completely neutral with unsurpassed speed and transparency, and as a clear step up from Clear in spatial imaging, dynamics and low-frequency impact. Each pair is made to order.
Measure component-to-component along the real path, including the drop behind the rack, and round up to the next half metre. Use XLR when both components have true balanced connections; otherwise RCA. Cardas builds XLR and RCA versions at the same price. A pair covers one stereo connection; source to preamp, or preamp to power amp.
| Type | Analog interconnect, stereo pair |
| Conductors | 4 × 26.5 AWG; Matched Propagation Kevlar-core Litz, ultra-fine strands from 47 AWG to 39 AWG, extruded PTFE insulation |
| Geometry | Star-quad, four conductors with anti-static LDPE air tubes bound in carbon-impregnated PTFE tape; outer PTFE air tubes scaled 1.618× suspend the composite shield of tinned copper and magnet wire |
| Dielectric | Ultra-thin extruded PTFE on each conductor; LDPE and PTFE air tubes |
| Jacket | Ultra-soft extruded TPR |
| Outside diameter | 0.511 in (13 mm) |
| Terminations | Cardas SRCA RCA or Cardas CG XLR |
| Lengths | 0.5 m to 5 m standard (see selector); any length to order |
| Sold as | Pair |
| Warranty | Cardas lifetime cable warranty |
| Made in | Bandon, Oregon, USA |
Cardas Clear Beyond Interconnect product page and specifications Specifications from cardas.com and the Cardas 2025 Dealer Catalog (Spring 2025 Retail). Lengths are metric; Cardas builds any length to order.
Cardas interconnects run from Iridium to Clear Beyond; from Clear Sky up they use Matched Propagation conductors.
Plan your Cardas system with Pearl Audio
Pearl Audio is an authorized Cardas dealer. We can measure your runs, recommend terminations for your amplifier and speakers, special-order lengths and connectors that are not in the selector, and let you hear Cardas cabling in our Portland showroom by appointment. Call (503) 222-2599 or email sales@pearlaudio.com.
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A system at this level should be heard, thoughtfully matched, and properly set up. From the first audition to long-term ownership, you work with the same people, in person.
The Clear Beyond Interconnect is not in our rooms at present. When it is the right piece for a client we arrange a demonstration unit from the manufacturer and set it up for a private session.
We deliver and install throughout the Portland area, taking care of placement, connections, ventilation and system configuration ourselves.
We support everything we sell for as long as you own it, whether the answer comes by phone, in your home, or through factory service.
Trade-in assistance and qualifying 100% Trade-Up options give you flexibility when your listening priorities or your system change.
