Editors' Choice Award 2019 - The Absolute Sound Magazine
"Very Highly Recommended!" - The Ultimate Flagship Interconnect
Clear Beyond Interconnect is Cardas Audio's ultimate flagship interconnect and a marvel of modern cable design. It features Cardas' most advanced Matched Propagation Conductors. Clear Beyond Interconnect brings noteworthy improvements in spatial imaging, dynamics, and low frequency impact while retaining the classic Cardas musicality.
The Absolute Sound magazine honored Cardas Clear Beyond interconnect and Clear Beyond speaker cable with an Editors' Choice 2019 award in the March 2019 issue of the magazine.
"This thick blue cable takes the patented technologies in Cardas cables to new heights," reports The Absolute Sound. "Clear sounds as close as you can get to having no sound. Eclipsed only in performance by Clear Beyond. Where Clear used four conductors, Clear Beyond features eight, meticulously build up using multi-gauge strands in a 'Golden Section' symmetrical triaxial design."
Clear Beyond Interconnect builds on over 30 years of Cardas Audio’s relentless dedication to the perfection of high performance cables. Superior shielding and advanced air-tube suspension geometry result in an O.D. of .511”, which necessitates the use of the Cardas XRCA 13 adaptor for single-ended termination or a redesigned CG XLR for balanced cables.
More than anything, Clear Beyond Interconnect is musical. Tonal balance is completely neutral with unsurpassed speed and transparency. Each pair is made to order and hand terminated only by Cardas Audio senior technicians.
"As with the power cord and speaker cables, Clear Beyond interconnects offer a step up on the already outstanding Clear," notes Alan Sircom in HiFi+ magazine. "Clear remains one of the best interconnects we have ever heard, but Clear Beyond confidently improves upon that performance in almost all aspects, without any sacrifices in performance. It might be the most expensive cable Cardas has ever made, but it is well worth it. Very highly recommended!"
Clear Beyond Construction
Clear Beyond features Cardas' most advanced line-level conductors, constructed of ultra-pure Cardas copper, scaled to the Golden Ratio. Each strand is insulated from the others with a special enamel coating. Arranged in a star-quad geometry and suspended by carbon impregnated air-tubes, the conductor core is double-shielded using a proprietary combination of both plated and bare copper and includes a pair of Litz drain wires.
As with the rest of the Clear product line, Clear Beyond Interconnect uses Matched Propagation technology, in which the propagation rate of the copper strands is matched to that of the dielectric. The subject of George Cardas' 2008 patent (US Patent 7,674,973), this conductor technology keeps the signal intact and intelligible without the use of load coils or networks, solving an age old problem dating back to the first transmission lines.
Clear Beyond Interconnect takes Matched Propagation further than ever before, with meticulous attention paid to every detail of the braiding stage of construction, and a no-compromise approach to dielectric choices. No Cardas interconnect is as demanding to build, and thus Clear Beyond Interconnect is built in small quantities, to ensure consistent quality.
Spectacular Performance
Matched Propagation conductors match the speed of the conductor to the propagation rate of the dielectric material. This is done by selecting dielectrics with the most advantageous electrical properties, and braiding each layer of the conductor with very specific pitch and lay length specifications.
The audible benefits of Matched Propagation technology are due to the signal remaining intact, never getting out of time with the dielectric. This is a graceful "in-cable" solution to a problem that has plagued analog audio transmission lines since the early days of the telephone.
Improving upon the spectacular performance of Clear Interconnect, Clear Beyond combines the famous Cardas musicality with a wider, taller sound stage, deeper bass, and increased dynamics. Everything just gets bigger and better, as a cable carrying the name "Beyond" should.
Custom Hand-Termination
Clear Beyond Interconnect's advanced air-tube suspension and shielding results in an outside diameter of 13mm. This necessitates the use of a special adapter to fit Cardas Audio's legendary SRCA for single-ended terminations, and a redesigned CG XLR for balanced cables.
The ultra-fine copper strands in the Clear Beyond conductors, built up around a center core of Kevlar yarn, require the expert hands and eyes of Cardas Audio's most experienced terminators. Each pair of Clear Beyond Interconnect is hand terminated at the Cardas Audio factory in Bandon, Oregon, and subject to a battery of tests and measurements.
