Cardas · Clear Sky
From $555 per pair
Cardas · Clear Sky
The least expensive Cardas interconnect with Matched Propagation conductors: transparent, dynamic, and the entry to the Clear range.
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 Sky uses two 23.5 AWG Matched Propagation conductors with a braided cross-field layer geometry, insulated in an ultra-thin FEP tape wrap. They form a shielded twisted pair held open by poly-e air tubes, with a tin-plated copper braid for the shield and an Alcryn rubber jacket.
Cardas describes it as transparent and dynamic with the Cardas richness, excellent in long or short lengths and suitable for any high-end system; it is, in their words, a cable that boxes above its weight. Standard connectors are the GRMO RCA or CE XLR.
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 | 2 × 23.5 AWG; Matched Propagation Kevlar-core braided Litz, ultra-thin FEP tape insulation |
| Geometry | Shielded twisted pair with non-conductive poly-e air tubes bound in ultra-thin FEP tape; compressed poly-e air tubes suspend the tin-plated copper braided shield and jacket away from the conductors |
| Dielectric | Ultra-thin FEP tape wrap on each conductor; poly-e air tubes |
| Jacket | Extruded Alcryn rubber |
| Outside diameter | 0.365 in (9.3 mm) |
| Terminations | Cardas GRMO RCA or Cardas CE 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 Sky 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.
The Pearl Audio experience
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.
Hear the Clear Sky Interconnect by appointment in one of our two purpose-designed demonstration rooms, with your own music and time to compare without pressure.
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.
