Origin Live Silver Hybrid E Phono Interconnect Cable

Silver Hybrid E Interconnect Cable

The Silver Hybrid E is a very high-performance interconnect cable at a fraction of what you would normally need to invest for performance at this level.  What matters in a cable is the results it brings, and if you know that this cable is highly likely to outperform anything you may have, even if it is over 6 times the cost, then it gives some clue as to its performance level.

Origin Live has been designing cables for over 35 years and is more than aware of the countless design issues in making a great cable. The range of Silver Hybrid cables includes many parameters which are correct, hence their great sound quality. There are many cables which have great ideas and costly techniques in their manufacture, but they only need to get a few details wrong, and all that amazing work is degraded. The Silver Hybrid range focuses on aspects that make the most difference to cable performance and is the result of many years of constant development.

The Silver Hybrid E external tonearm cable consists of a mix of Silver and Copper strands that yield the best sonic balance. Tonally, copper tends to produce more warmth and deeper bass than Silver but Silver has a wonderful transparency and sweet top end. The combination of these two high conductivity materials produce the best of both worlds. The effect is far superior to silver plated copper. This and many other factors is what sets Origin Live Silver Hybrid cables apart.

There are some, who understandably think that Silver can sound slightly harsh and edgy. However this is more to do with the way the material is annealed than the material itself and you will never observe any hint of a bright, edgy sound in our cables. Instead, they are remarkably smooth, dynamic, transparent, tonaly accurate and fast.

Features

• Highly annealed Silver and Copper cable strands
• Optimum strand configuration
• Insulated to produce correct tonal balance
• Sheathed in hard wearing Nylon B

To experience a highly significant upgrade in your system, we simply invite you to put this claim to the test. With our 1 month money-back guarantee, you can try them without risk.

Design Philosophy

Some Origin Live cables are unique in the way they address the problem of tonal imbalances within a cable. This is not an easy concept to understand in theory and even harder to eliminate in practice. Due to capacitance and other factors, cables can seem to exhibit a sound like mechanical “ringing” which gives prominence to certain frequencies. The effects are to cause blurring and tonal imbalance. For example, bass notes are prevented from dropping deep in the way you know they should. The reason may not be because your speakers can’t go deep but because the deep notes are masked by upper mid-range “ringing” in the cable.

A vastly oversimplified illustration to understand the principle of ringing is to consider a flash of lightning in a major storm. Lightening produces a loud roll of thunder. This is the result of air crashing into the atomised lightning gap. The echoes from the landscape then add to the effect we hear as thunder which carries on for longer than the original crashing noise which created it.

When electricity passes through your cables it causes momentary electrical changes within the material analogous to lightning in air. These changes then input a delayed release of electrical energy back into the signal.  This manifests itself audibly by introducing an effect similar to  “ringing” which accentuates certain frequency bands. The effects vary significantly in frequency, magnitude and decay time depending on the cable you use.

When you hear thunder you observe two important facts:

• Hearing the thunder is delayed from the time you first see the flash.
  In a similar way for music, the slight delay time of signal “after effects” changes the “timing” of notes.
• A roll of thunder lasts a lot longer than the flash which created it.
  In a similar way for music, any ongoing electrical after effects causes blurring and reduces clarity.

Through observation and intensive research, Origin Live has found a unique way to dramatically reduce these effects. The results are astonishing with major improvements to clarity and tonal qualities in the music.

Electrical “after effects” are not to be confused with mechanical resonance which many cable manufacturers refer to. Mechanical resonance causes conductors to vibrate microscopically against one another – this also degrades signal quality because it interrupts the electromagnetic field consistency around each conducting strand. 25 years ago Hitachi promoted high-pressure binding of stranded cable to reduce this effect – nowadays some ideas (among many) include adding clamps and cable risers to slightly dampen such effects.

Making the Best Choice

With over 300 brands of cable now available it’s not easy to be sure of the right choice. At Origin Live we test and evaluate many published ideas along with our own research. Our reputation for producing outstandingly musical and high-performance products is a significant indicator that our cables are second to none. They certainly rank among the very best and offer outstanding value at a fraction of the price.

No-Risk Trial

All our cables come with a one-month money-back guarantee if ordered directly from Origin Live ( some dealers may offer the same). This means you can try them in your own system without risk. If not absolutely delighted simply return them for a full refund.

We have received highly favourable reviews on our cables dating back to the first cable product launched over 34 years ago. and pour an almost insane amount of research into this area.

History

The most significant reason for much of our research is that tonearm performance benefits immensely from exceptional cable quality. Efforts to find other brand cables to include in our top of the range arms have invariably ended up with us designing something better (not copies).

The Origin Live Silver Hybrid external cable (£535) employed in our High-End tonearms has so far outperformed the best alternatives we have tried. Dealers tell us it betters well-known brand cables at £4000.

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