Four braided Matched Propagation conductors with forged terminations, at the price point where most Cardas speaker-cable customers land. Clear and neutral, with internal bi-wire available.
Price is for a hand-terminated pair.
Build your cable
4 × 15 AWG
Cardas Litz conductors, Golden Ratio stranding
Braided
Matched Propagation conductors
17.7 mm
outside diameter
0.5–5 m
standard lengths, any length to order
Clear Cygnus Speaker uses four 15 AWG braided Matched Propagation conductors — Golden Ratio Litz around Kevlar cores, insulated in PTFE tape with an electro-dissipative layer — concentrically braided inside anti-static polypropylene fibres and a soft TPE jacket.
Cardas describes remarkable clarity and neutrality, with transparency and dynamics that punch above the price. It accepts internal bi-wiring, and like the rest of the Clear range its spades and bananas are compression forged at 10,000 psi rather than soldered.
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.
Concentrically braided four conductors surrounded by anti-static fibrillated polypropylene fibres
Dielectric
PTFE tape and electro-dissipative dielectric on each conductor
Jacket
Soft, flexible TPE rubber
Outside diameter
0.695 in (17.7 mm)
Terminations
Cardas forged spades or Cardas forged bananas, compression forged at 10,000 psi
Bi-wire
Internal bi-wire available, +$200 per pair
Lengths
0.5 m to 5 m standard (see selector); any length to order
Sold as
Pair
cardas.com · Specifications and pricing from the Cardas Spring 2025 Retail Catalog. Cable lengths are metric; Cardas builds any length to order.
Where it sits in the range
Cardas speaker cables run from Iridium to Clear Beyond; the Clear-range cables (Sky X4 and above) use Matched Propagation conductors, and Clear, Reflection, Cygnus and Beyond are terminated with compression-forged connectors.
We stock or demo select Cardas lines and can order anything in the catalog, from Iridium to Clear Beyond.
Plan your cabling with Pearl Audio
Pearl Audio is an authorized Cardas dealer in Portland, Oregon, a short drive from the Cardas factory in Bandon. We can measure your runs, recommend terminations for your components, and special-order custom lengths and connector options. Call
(503) 222-2599 or email
sales@pearlaudio.com.
