Cardas Audio
Clear Beyond
Introduced 2011$4,250 MSRP
Clear Beyond is Cardas Audio's flagship, "zero-compromise" cable line spanning speaker cables, interconnects, phono cables, and power cords, described by Cardas as intended for "the highest performance components in acoustically perfect environments". The speaker cable is built as an eight-conductor, concentrically-wound design effectively combining two runs of Cardas' Clear speaker cable in a single jacket, engineered for systems whose speakers demand large current flow.
MSRP
$4,250
Used market · Good
$3,538
-17% vs MSRP
as of Sep 1, 2026MSRP to used market
From $4,250 at launch to $3,538 today.
Specifications
- Awards
- Editor's Choice Award 2024 – Hi-Fi+ Magazine
- Geometry
- Concentrically wound eight-conductor "Perfect Mirror Octoaxial" design with anti-static PTFE air tubes and cross-field layer geometry
- Termination
- Cardas spades or bananas, "crush forged" onto the cable using a 10,000 psi two-stage process, pure billet copper with rhodium plating; internal bi-wire/bi-amp capable
- Conductor gauge
- 8 x 10.5 AWG (gauge sizes scaled to Golden Ratio proportions, ranging from ultra-fine 41 AWG to 25 AWG strands); some listings cite 9.5 AWG x 8
- Published price
- 4250 USD
- Electrical specs
- Inductance 0.01 µH/ft/loop; Capacitance 446 pF/ft
- Outside diameter
- 0.934 in / 23.72 mm
- Conductor material
- Cardas Grade 1, 99.9999% pure oxygen-free copper with SPN clear coat (Litz construction), Matched Propagation Kevlar core
- Dielectric insulation
- FEP tape-wrapped jacket over conductors; PFA and air dielectric; flexible TPR outer jacket
- Manufacturing location
- Hand-assembled in Bandon, Oregon, USA
- Interconnect price reference
- $3,750 (1m pair, RCA); no surcharge for XLR
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