At Transparent Cable, the design process has always combined the best of laboratory technology with the most important ingredient of all: critical listening by music lovers.

The members of the Transparent listening panel are constantly recalibrating their ears by playing their own musical instruments and by attending live concerts.

Transparent Cables are precision assembled by craftspeople who have had years of specialized training. With each increase in performance level, the selection, physical placement and electrical matching of the cable components becomes more critical. 

The only cables in the world to have their networks optimized for each length of cable are the ones built by Transparent.

Strand and Conductor Technology Conductor material should be pure and consistent, and the conductor surface should be smooth and uniform for best signal transfer. In their opinion, pure silver conductors do not possess inherent qualities that make them a better conductor of music range signals than copper conductors. For audio applications, pure silver will usually require more compensation than many copper conductor configurations, and the cost of pure silver is exorbitant. The conductors in Transparent Cables consist of many strands of single gauge, precision extruded, oxygen free copper. Each strand is annealed to provide an extremely smooth and uniform surface. The strand bundles are precisely wound around a center core of dielectric. Dielectric Materials Precision extruded Teflon has superior dielectric insulation properties compared to just about any other material except air, but cables with sufficient air insulation would be very bulky and difficult to manufacture with consistent results. Teflon works very well on interconnects which require a relatively thin layer to insulate them properly, but Teflon insulation would result in a very stiff and difficult to use speaker cable. Transparent Interconnects have Teflon insulation, and Transparent Speaker Cables have polypropylene insulation. Polypropylene has nearly the same excellent insulation properties as Teflon, but it is a lot more flexible in the quantities required for proper speaker cable construction. Laser micrometers insure even dielectric extrusions on all Transparent Cables.   Every Transparent Cable regardless of length ... is tuned so that it achieves the same electrical characteristics as an IDEAL length of cable   Cable Geometry As discussed earlier, twisted pair technology results in superior audio range performance because of the nulling effect of + and - conductor proximity. Many audio cables provide twisted pair technology. The precision and consistency of the twists are very important to achieving as much nulling as possible and to insure that any two sections of cable of the same length will exhibit the same relationship of inductance to capacitance. The cable jacket must be tightly and precision extruded around the twisted pair to hold the twisted pair firmly in place. The tight jacket insures that cables will maintain their intended electrical characteristics even when the cable is flexed or bent as in home audio installations. Transparent Cables consist of twisted pairs that are precision machine wound to exact specifications. Cable jackets are pressure extruded to hold conductors firmly in place when the cable is bent or twisted. Transparent Cables have amazingly consistent electrical characteristics from sample to sample. They also exhibit rock solid electrical characteristics when they are bent or twisted. These manufacturing techniques allow us to fit every performance level and length of Transparent Cable with a precision designed network that will result in the same high standards of musical performance from application to application. Soldering Techniques Transparent Audio Cable do not use solder pots or extremely hot soldering irons to construct Transparent Cable. Transparent Audio Cable carefully temper the strands in each conductor with heat controlled soldering irons, and Transparent Audio Cable use only enough heat to flow high purity 2% silver solder. Out of the many soldering techniques Transparent Audio Cable have tested with time delay reflectometry, their heat-controlled methods seem to provide the best signal transfer results.

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