Clairvoyant Cables Design Philosophy

First and foremost, to have good cables you need good ingredients.We design our cables with the highest quality materials available and we follow the "Less is More" motto. We have designed and tested hundreds of cable designs,and the more complex the design the worse it sounded. We use only the highest grade of 6N 99.9999% pure OCC copper available,then we have it gold plated. OCC is the highest quality method of drawing copper. OCC copper only has one grain in about 700 feet which is far less than the previous industry leader LC copper.With OCC wire the signal travels through one continuous conductor instead of traversing grain boundaries.The purpose of the gold plating was not solely to add richness,texture and body,but it was chosen to insure that the cables would never oxidize over time like traditional silver or copper cables.The only benefit of pure silver or pure copper over gold is the higher conductivity,but silver and copper looses some of it's conductivity as it ages because they both suffer from Oxidation. Copper is only slightly lower in conductivity than silver,but when copper is gold plated there is no chance for oxidation so in the long run gold plated copper will be more conductive than both pure silver and pure copper. Oxidation is the main reason why cables tend to sound less detailed and dull after several years of use. We chose to use solid core conductors over stranded conductors because in a stranded cable the signal has a tendency to jump from strand to strand causing distortion. Each strand interface acts like a small circuit,with capacitance and a diode effect,much like the grain structure of copper. We use smaller gauge conductors which we call "Optimum Diameter" conductors. The use of our Optimum Diameter conductors offer lower Eddy Currents and they are below the threshold of Skin Effect.  For the geometry of our speaker cables, we designed a special Helical array with the conductors counter spiraled and interwoven through an anti-vibration core for lower microphonics and optimum inductance. For the geometry of our interconnects,  we use a paralleled conductor array,  interwoven through an ant-vibration core for lower microphonics and capacitance . We adhere to tight tolerances in regards to the number of twists per cable. We chose to use Enamel as the Dielectric because we could use a very thin coating while maintaining durability and low Dielectric absorbtion. Dielectric materials absorb energy,a phenomenon called "Dielectric absorption". A capacitor works in the same way: a dielectric material between two charged plates stores energy. But in a cable, dielectric absorption can degrade the signal.The energy that is absorbed into the dielectric is released back into the cable slightly delayed in time which is a very undesirable condition that causes loss of focus, transient smearing and un-defined images and sound-stages. Thats why we chose to use Enamel insulation over the more common Teflon or Polyethylene insulations because we could use a much thinner coating to minimize dielectric absorption. Our cables are simply designed to offer the most musical reproduction possible, while offering the end user a tremendous value and pride of ownership.