Clear Beyond Speaker Cable

Cardas · Clear Beyond

Two pairs of Clear speaker cable inside one jacket: the Cardas flagship for cost-no-object systems whose speakers demand current, with internal bi-wire or bi-amp available.

Price is for a hand-terminated pair.

Clear Beyond Speaker is built on the flagship Clear speaker cable and developed to go beyond it where loudspeakers draw large amounts of current. Eight 10.5 AWG Matched Propagation conductors — Litz bundles of 41 to 25 AWG strands around Kevlar cores — are concentrically wound with anti-static PTFE air tubes under a flexible TPR jacket, giving a 24 mm cable that is effectively two runs of Clear in one.

Cardas describes it as absolutely neutral and transparent, perfectly balanced with articulate lows and delicate highs, and dynamic with zero compression. Because there are eight conductors it can be terminated as an internal bi-wire or for bi-amping. Spades and bananas are forged onto the conductors at 10,000 psi in Bandon.

Key technologies

• Matched Propagation Technology. US Patent 7,674,973: the propagation rate of the conductor is matched to that of the dielectric through the conductor's internal geometry, so the signal is not smeared in time.
• Ultra Pure Cardas Copper. Grade 1, 99.9999% pure oxygen-free copper, drawn and annealed slowly through silver dies, then given a single poly-nylon coat to prevent oxidation and crosstalk between strands.
• Golden Ratio scaled Litz conductors. Multi-stranded conductors in which each layer of strands steps up in size by 1:1.618 from the centre outward, a Cardas patent that controls strand resonance.
• Forged terminations. Clear-range speaker cables are terminated with a solder-less compression die forging at 10,000 psi, fusing the copper of the conductor and the connector into one piece.
• Made in Bandon, Oregon. Every Cardas cable is built and hand terminated at the Cardas factory on the southern Oregon coast, and carries a transferable lifetime warranty.

Choosing length and terminations

• Measure along the path the cable will actually take — down the rack, along the floor, up to the speaker terminals — and round up. Cardas charges by the half metre.
• Both cables in the pair are the same length. Keeping left and right equal is the normal practice, even if one speaker is closer.
• Spades suit binding posts you can torque down; bananas are quicker and fit most posts. You can mix: for example, spades at the amplifier and bananas at the speakers.
• Internal bi-wire puts two spades or bananas per polarity at the speaker end for speakers with separate bass and treble terminals; choose it under Speaker End for the fee shown. If you would rather keep a single run, Cardas jumpers are the alternative.
• Longer than 5 m? Cardas prices custom lengths by formula — call us for a quote.