Metaphysics also has great wisdom top HiFi wire parade

For the HiFi system, the three major things that people often say (sound source, amplification, speaker) must play a decisive role in the performance of the system, but there are also a lot of attention to the wire used to connect the three pieces, of course, for the wire The impact is also the benevolent thing. One of the most incomprehensible things that most ordinary enthusiasts can't understand about a wire is the price of a power cord that is hundreds of thousands or even five or six digits. Is it really useful? How big can the gap between signal lines be?

Many people believe that all the evaluations and remarks about the wire are flickering, and there are many enthusiasts in this crowd. And the author does not want to say that the wire is useful or useless, but if the influence of the wire is really flickering, it can only be said that this may be one of the biggest flicker, after all, even the world famous Wire manufacturers are already the number of two hands, and each brand has its own most obvious features, both in appearance and sound.

Putting down the dispute between true and false, what are the world-famous wire manufacturers? If you don't believe in the improvement of wire rods, look at these world's big-name wire manufacturers and their respective characteristics and technologies.

American Monster (monster)

This Monster and the current sales of magic sound headphones are indeed a brand, but Monster in the headset industry is a rising new, but in the online circle, Monster can be said to be the originator of all fever wire manufacturers, the brand also It is indeed the world's first well-known fever-grade wire manufacturer.

Monster, the most popular headset market, is also the originator of fever wire.

Monster HDMI cable

The wire rods of Monster in the United States are produced from low price to high price, from audio and video signal lines to speaker lines and digital lines. The products are versatile and full of variety. Its Z series speaker cable is made by the monster combined with its own patented technology, including the exclusive patented Time Correct wire weaving technology, which can effectively eliminate the phase error during signal transmission and allow the transmission of low, medium and high frequency signals. The speed is consistent for better audio and video performance. Another patented Magnetic Flux Tube technology minimizes electromagnetic induction of the wire to reduce negative signal interference. PEX special insulation can effectively isolate external noise and maintain the purity of the signal, thus improving the sound quality. The exclusive patented Multi Twist weave structure enhances the clarity of the sound and fully demonstrates the sound detail. Patented Duraflex speaker terminals are designed to prevent chemical changes and wear from long-term use to extend wire life. These patented technologies are exclusively developed by monsters and are the key to the recognition of their products. Monster Z series speaker cable adheres to its unique patented wire manufacturing technology, wire structure and wire weaving method, and it is a product worthy of attention of enthusiasts with its diversified product portfolio.

American Audio Quest

Line Sheng is also a brand familiar to domestic enthusiasts. It is generally used to be called AQ, but it is also familiar because the brand has a huge number of fake markets in China. It can even be said that if you do not buy at the manufacturer's designated agent, the AQ wire that is bought in China is almost impossible to be true.

Audio Quest Line Santa RCA Signal Line

Audio Quest Line Saint Active Filter USB Cable

The signal lines of American Audio Quest use Hyperlitz multi-strand Litz wire geometry to eliminate the mutual interference and skin effect between the core and the core; the outer casing is made of polypropylene or Teflon insulation material. Its low capacitance value can effectively prevent high frequency loss. Line Digital has more than 10 digital and video signal lines. Its Video One video cable uses Teflon insulation jacket, silver-plated long-grain copper (SP-LGC) wire, silver-plated coaxial plug, and is very wide. Passband. The Video Pro color video cable uses HCF hard-poll foam as an insulating jacket, which is a double-balanced combination of FPS solid silver wires. This structure is similar to the SP-LGC. The S-Video signal line in the line S series is four times thicker than the general S-Video signal line, and the length is relatively short. For example, S-1 adopts HCF insulating jacket and silver-plated long-grain copper as conductor, which is combined by symmetrical means; S-1 is composed of two 75-ohm cables, one of which is used to transmit luminance signal and the other is transmitted color. Degree signal, each cable is symmetrical design, in addition to the metal foil and braided shield mesh layer, and another SP-LGC copper wire is completely grounded with the same core wire. The line AC-12 AC power cord is the only power cord on the market that uses the Hyperlitz structure. The core is made of OFHC oxygen-free high-conductivity copper, UL PVC insulated jacket, and iron powder core RF filter. Line St. Hyperlitz series speaker cable adopts Hyperlitz line technology, which not only maintains the low skin effect of Litz wire, but also has better ability to eliminate multi-core distortion than Litz wire, so the music signal transmission is accurate, tone beautiful.

American Nordost (music ribbon)

Music ribbon can be said to be one of the top wire manufacturers currently recognized. The most famous flagship product, Odin, is also the price of more than 100,000 yuan, and many senior enthusiasts are also fond of ribbon wire, and even the whole system uses ribbon wire. However, expensive music ribbons seem technically simple, but they are notable.

Six-digit Nordost music ribbon flagship Odin speaker cable

Nordost Music Ribbon Frey Power Cord

Nordost Music Ribbon's second-generation Frey signal line with dual micro-space technology

The most famous technology of the music ribbon is that it is the founder of the Flatline (flat) line, made by extrusion, Teflon insulation jacket, with very low deviation and good electrical characteristics. And the Micro Mono-Filament micro-space technology used in high-end wire and the Dual Mono-Filament dual micro-space technology that will be used in flagship wire, and the high-end wire body using micro-space technology is the outer layer of transparent Teflon material. The coating provides wear resistance, high temperature resistance, aging resistance, and extremely low capacitance and inductance. In order to reduce the sound of the line caused by capacitance and inductance during transmission. In the new second-generation high-end series, the dual micro-space has covered almost all the high-end wires. In the audio world, Music Ribbon has produced many high-performance wires for all home entertainment systems. The patented extruded Teflon FEP process, oxygen-free copper surface extrusion silver plating process and micro-space insulation structure technology reduce the capacitance of traditional wire by 3-10 times and transmit signals at speeds exceeding 90% of the speed of light. Thereby making the sound quality clearer, more accurate, true, and no sound.

US Transparent and MIT (Wild)

Put these two brands together because their core technologies are very similar, and there are some sources between the two brands that do not clean up and mess. At the same time, the two manufacturers are now the world's top Hi-End grade wire manufacturers.

Transparent Tianxian with RCA signal line

Transparent Tianxian with speaker cable

MIT wild RCA signal line

The core technology of Transparent and MIT is a mysterious black box used in high-end wire. For example, in the flagship speaker cable of Tianxian, you can also see the special black box below it. Shock absorbers. This box is the perfect "soul" for music reproduction. It contains MIT's exclusive line, resistor, capacitor and other components, so that signals of different frequencies can be transmitted at the same time without delay in time. It also does not lose the amount of current transmitted by the signal, ensuring that the signal and dynamic energy are transmitted intact. According to MIT, there is still no wire on the market that can guarantee 100% of the transmitted signal. No matter whether it is woven, shielded or grounded, it can't achieve 100% effect. (refers to the line inside the metal box) is designed for the shortcomings of the wire itself, so it is added to the wire. Different types of MIT wires use different lines for the disadvantages of different wires.

US XLO (highest)

Xgo Corporation is a well-known manufacturer of fever wire rods, and has launched a number of different series of fever lines. The main products in the Pro Pro series are audio signal lines, speaker lines, and AC power lines.

US XLO high power cord

US XLO to high RCA signal line

US XLO to high AES digital signal line

The conductor material used in the brand's wire rod is 4NOFHC copper (Oxygen Free High Conductivity Copper, anaerobic high-conductivity copper), and the insulating material is mainly composed of polyene compounds, such as Dupont, Surlyn, Elvax compound materials. The High Reference Reference series wire has the characteristics of low capacitance and low inductance. The wire material is made of 4N high purity copper or 6NPLGC copper (PureLaboratoryGradeCopper), and the insulation material is Teflon Teflon material (Teflon) produced by DuPont, USA. And the use of the two patented line technology, the wire structure is designed according to the highest patented shielding geometry. The Supreme Standard series wire adopts special OFHC copper wire, DuPont Teflon insulation jacket, the plug adopts the "minimum self-inductance" non-magnetic design to overcome the hysteresis phenomenon, which can ensure the unimpeded transmission signal. One of the T-0.2 balanced signal lines is made by the "common mode suppression" coherent balance circuit transmission principle. It has no shielding design and is used in various noise, electromagnetic interference and radio frequency interference situations. The performance is still reliable. The highest-level Signature signature series of fever lines are all designed by the manufacturer's uniquely designed geometric arrangement winding method, which can eliminate any noise interference and sound dyeing. The cores are all made of high-purity copper, Teflon insulation jacket, high-grade gold-plated non-magnetic low. Inductor plug.

Dutch Siltech (silver color)

All of the above mentioned are the American wire brands. In terms of online materials, almost all of the manufacturers are concentrated in the United States. In the Netherlands, there is such a manufacturer that has to be mentioned. It is Siltech Silver. The position in the material has always represented the high-end and Hi-End levels.

Siltech Silver RCA Signal Cable

Siltech Silver XLR Balance Signal Cable

Siltech's research theory focuses on high-tech physical metallurgy technology, advanced insulation materials, and precise product structure. The Siltech Classical series of research found peculiar metallurgical theoretical phenomena, gold atoms can fill the gap between silver crystals. The company's new introduction to the classical series of wire, according to the 7th generation Siltech metallurgy, also known as G7. G7 technology can provide a very small sound distortion state. The magnetic study of the cutting edge led to the advent of Siltech's X-balanced Micro technology, which also produced true noise-free signal lines. Siltech uses micro-balanced engineering to complete noise-free signal cable production. In today's living environment, transformers, mobile phones, computers and other electronic devices that appear everywhere, other types of signal lines, in the electrical or magnetic environment, often have EMI and RF problems. Siltech's new classic signal line provides 10,000 times higher quality, no noise, than other best-in-class tests and the highest price competitors.

Dutch Crystal Cable

Crystal color wire has always been very characteristic, from the sound to the appearance, of course, the price is also very characteristic, expensive injury, the DreamLine flagship series is the dream of countless enthusiasts. And interestingly, the appearance of the crystal color wire is not as thick as the appearance of a fever line in many people's hearts, but it is very slender, there is no layer of shielding layer, no need to bend the direction of the plug and the wire. .

Crystal Cable crystal power cord

Crystal Cable's former flagship DreamLine series wire

Although the wire of the crystal color is very slender, it is not much different from the various big-name wires in the market in terms of transmission cross-section. The wire of other brands is also thick because the shielding layer is complex and the volume is large, the actual wire is The transmission cross-sectional area is not necessarily much larger than the fine-grained crystal color. And Crystal is inextricably linked to another top wire manufacturer in the Netherlands, that is Siltech. According to Siltech's owner, Gabi, the new brand Crystal Cable has a wide range of enthusiast grade wire. In this application, the production of aerospace-grade wire technology, including video cable, signal cable, power cable, speaker cable, and digital cable, uses a coaxial structure, a gold-silver conductor shield mesh that is much finer than hair, and expensive high-tech. The Kapton and Peek and Siltech plants have a prestigious 24K gold filled metallurgical production in the transfer of pure silver crystals. Crystal Cable's silver-white body has revealed its sound, fresh, pure and meticulous, which is different from the large number of conductors that Siltech has always liked.

US Purist Audio Design (PAD)

The characteristics of PAD are in line with the understanding of enthusiasts, and it is also the style of the low-end enthusiasts who like it: thick. And this kind of roughness does not exist for the sake of deafness. PAD's excellent shielding and suspension technology has proved great influence and improvement on sound, and the cost of this excellent shielding and suspension technology is thick and thick. I am.

PAD coaxial RCA digital signal line

PAD speaker cable

PAD power cord

Founded in 1986, PAD is a manufacturer specializing in the development of wire rods. Its first generation is the oil immersion line, which is shielded, shockproof and thermostatic with oil on the submarine cable, and the same effect is applied to the wire. In the sense of hearing, it is more quiet. To the second generation of the flagship digital line RLSJG Digital upgraded the oil to the company's new open material for shielding, this material is the Ferox illuminator. It makes the wire extend more fully and the sound is clearer and clearer. The Ferox is wrapped in an instrument-grade vinyl (the most advanced plastic). The core is a multi-strand multi-strand alloy for the signal conductor. In the third generation of products, in order to celebrate the company's 20th anniversary, in its new products Purist series and Aqueous series of wires used more advanced than Ferox, also the material developed by itself - Contego. Not only that, PAD Purist's limited version of the power cord uses PAD's latest AC Power Conditioning Circuitry (ACPCC) power processing system, which includes two major functions - targeted electromagnetic field control technology, and passive multiple filter lines.

FLUID oil immersion: Early PAD developed a special oily liquid material potted in the line body (Fluid), which not only has excellent shielding effect on the electric field, but also has excellent damping effect on the damping characteristics. At that time, many audio fans even heard PAD. The wire is referred to as the "oil immersion line", which shows the topicality of its shielding material.

FEROX: After the popular "oil immersion line", the new shielded vibration isolating material was named "Ferox", and the material changed from oleaginous material to metal material, but still maintains the semi-liquid fluid with approximate damping characteristics. Radio frequency interference or electromagnetic interference such as EMI/EMF has better shielding effect. The comparative audio fans all say that the music background is more quiet, and it is definitely a better "improvement" of sound characteristics.

CONTEGO: After more than 20 years of hard work, PAD has finally launched a new generation of isolated shock absorber technology "CONTEGO". The 20th anniversary of the Aqueous and Purist series "CONTEGO" technology improvement focuses on the new shielded vibration isolating material. It is made by adding a semi-liquid substance of Silicone material and mixing it with an appropriate proportion of liquid. The production process requires extremely precise proportions, which creates a packing density that cannot be surpassed by "Ferox" materials. It improves vibration and shielding effects in an all-round way. Its sound improvement is large, and it is regarded as an epoch-making ultimate by PAD. The full potential of the advanced sound system.

American Cardas (Cadas)

Cardas may be the most well-known brand among enthusiasts except for monsters. In fact, Cardas's wire is basically at the mid-level of the entire HiFi wire industry, although it is very famous and may have a very high shipment volume. Big, but for the price and the actual level, it is not a very high-end brand, but it is indeed a very good manufacturer.

Cardas Cards Clear Series Wire Construction

Cardas Cardas flagship Clear balance signal line

Cardas Cardas flagship Clear series HD800 upgrade line

The cable of Qadas is simple and mysterious in terms of technology. All we know is that Qadas never uses single crystal copper. It is an oxygen-free copper or copper alloy as a transmission medium. In terms of shielding, Cardas is mainly There is not much difference in Teflon materials, but it has always been the strength of Kadas for the suspension and weaving of wire. In the new flagship Clear series, Kadas uses multiple hollow tubes as shock absorbers. The wire and outer screens use a twist-twisting method, the lifting of the metal and the higher-end method of weaving and suspension, which gave the brand a higher level of achievement. There was only a thick sound before I got rid of Cardas.

American WireWorld (Line World)

Wire World, a professional audio wire company based in Florida, is a medium-sized company among online material manufacturers. It currently has more than 100 employees and is a private company. The founder (and now the boss) David Salz is a wire designer himself.

WireWorld Line World

WireWorld Line World Platinum Star Flagship HDMI Cable

WireWorld Line World Power Cord

At WireWorld, one of the key principles of design principles is "no design." As we all know, oxygen-free copper (OFC) itself has a good conductivity. If you want to improve the performance, the silver effect is better, but at the cost, silver is three times the price of copper, but only 6% in terms of conductivity. Improvement. Wire World's pricing strategy, if high-end products have to set a higher price, first of all must have real scientific data and accurate material costs to finalize the case. Wire World's positioning is simple, that is, Wire World not only uses the price of sound, but also the value of real value. The core technology of the line world is its multi-parallel flat-core twisting technology called “DNA”. This technology ensures that the distance between the cores will not change due to bending, and the capacitance of the wire can be better maintained. And inductance. And the flagship platinum series Platinum is made of single crystal silver + DNA + carbon fiber shielding layer, which better guarantees the quality of the wire.

In fact, there are so many big-name and excellent wire manufacturers. It’s really no less than the number of big three big manufacturers. The author mentioned today is just the tip of the iceberg, but it is also a well-known representative manufacturer. A good line, although the biggest decision may be in the transmission of metal media, but the choice of weaving, shielding, shock absorbers and even plugs and solders will affect the final sound orientation of a wire, and each brand has its own sound characteristics, But it's just that the flagship can represent a brand's style, and the style gap between the low end and the high end may be huge.