Encased in a superbly flexible, tough and stunningly beautiful blue covering, the Blue Shadow line of interconnects and speaker cables actually display their true inner beauty to your ears.

Both are built with Oxygen Free Copper Litz wire encased in Teflon at their core and inserted into the hollow blue coverings which are woven from finely stranded Polypropylene. This yields an overall composite dielectric property better than solid Teflon. Both are braided with the same noise-rejecting configuration and proofed against RF pickup without the use of shielding.

The interconnect is unshielded, yet is protected along its entire length as well as within its terminations a new hi-tech RF absorptive material, plus the braiding configuration. Shields limit dynamics (as well as flexibility) while this construction yields explosively powerful macrodynamic transients with lightning speed. The RF absorber and braiding give a quiet noise floor with detailed microdynamics comparable to the best that shielding can give, only without the drawbacks. The materials chosen reject and damp vibration, largely ignored by audio technology until now as a major problem of interconnects. Vibration can no more push this configuration around than you can push a rope. Capacitance and inductance are miniscule. Clarity-damaging eddy currents in the terminations of the singleended version are eliminated with the use of Eichmann Bullet RCA’s, and minimum-metal XLR’s in the balanced version.

The speaker cable is proofed against passing RF back to the amplifier with Ferrite blocks guarding the amp end of the cable. The braiding and vibration damping qualities of the covering guards against injecting audio frequency noise though the "back door" of negative feedback circuits in amps so configured. The braiding spaces the conductors apart and is designed to eliminate inductive transient suppression during large transients.

You don’t have to work out in a gym to be able to use these cables, either. Ergonomics were considered along with WAF factor, the Blue Shadows are flexible and easy to get along with. The sum of using the same materials and construction in both the interconnect and speaker cable while varying only the scale of the wire size is a single sonic signature of incomparable clarity, speed, dynamics and "live" feel which draw one to listen long past one’s bedtime. The depth, soundstaging and tonal balance are irresistibly engaging with a "you are there" lively presence.

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