Cardas Audio
Clear Interconnect
Cardas Clear is an analog interconnect built around George Cardas's Matched Propagation Conductor design, introduced in 2010 as the successor to the long-running Golden Reference line. It uses ultra-fine-stranded, 99.9999%-pure copper Litz conductors arranged in a "Golden Ratio" / Crossfield geometry, suspended in a Teflon air-tube dielectric, and remains one of Cardas's flagship interconnects (positioned below Clear Beyond and Clear Reflection in the current catalog).
MSRP
$2,020
Used market · Good
$1,435
MSRP to used market
From $2,020 at launch to $1,435 today.
Specifications
- Award
- 2013 The Absolute Sound Editors' Choice Award
- Geometry
- Matched Propagation, Golden Ratio, Constant Q, Crossfield
- Shielding
- 100% spiral x2 with Teflon/graphite composite
- Dielectric
- Teflon and air
- Design origin
- Matched Propagation Conductor, invented by George Cardas, 2010
- Conductor gauge
- 25.5 AWG
- Outside diameter
- 0.4 in
- Conductor material
- 99.9999% pure Grade 1 copper, ultra-fine stranded Litz
- Standard terminations
- Cardas SRCA or CG XLR
- Price 1 0m RCA XLR pair
- $2,020 US retail
- Price scaling by length
- 0.5m: €1,970; 1m: €2,610; 1.5m: €3,250; 2m: €3,895; 2.5m: €4,535; 3m: €5,175
- Price scaling by length approx eur price list
- 0.5m: €1,970; 1m: €2,610; 1.5m: €3,250; 2m: €3,895; 2.5m: €4,535; 3m: €5,175
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