Military Nuclear Systems Cable6 Foot Set Without Terminations usedThis ad is about this wire, how it's made, why it was made, it's cost to develop and manufacture, how good it is, as well as my price options. Why The Military Developed This Cable I find ...600.00

Military Nuclear Systems Cable 6 Foot Set Without Terminations What This Cable Is

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This ad is about this wire, how it's made, why it was made, it's cost to develop and manufacture, how good it is, as well as my price options.
Why The Military Developed This Cable 
   I find that what the military wanted this cable to do to be interesting in that it is the same objectives that an audiophile cable manufacturer would specify for audio cables. 

  1. They wanted shielding that would protect from the EMP that comes with a nuclear detonation. I doubt that anything else comes close, this can knock out electronics from long distances. If this wire can protect electronics from this electrical pulse RF and magnetic or power supply degradation is not going to be a possibility.
  2. They wanted zero coloration, no field effect distortion that could possibly distort a signal that needed to be of the utmost accuracy with no interference or anomalies. The audiophile cable industry knows that shielding comes at a price of coloration. Well shielded cables are a matter of tuning and controlling the degree or flavor of coloration and the characteristic it imparts. This cable has ultimate shielding and no coloration.
  3. They wanted ultimately low cable losses, the amount of signal amplitude that is lost for every meter. Missile systems might have runs of cable that are quite possibly hundreds of feet in boosters or delivery systems like planes. This cable works well in runs that are as long as a hundred feet or more.

Unlimited Funds Used To Achieve These Goals
   It costs a lot of money to do the research and develop involved with new levels of performance. Beyond tens of millions of dollars, hundreds. I was told by two cable manufacturers that this cable would have been developed to a degree that project specific test equipment was developed at huge expense to test levels of field effect distortion and other parameters that can't even be measured without it. Word was when I tried to get the cable manufactured was that they would have no way of making sure that what they replicated is as good as the samples. I was told that it would cost at least $70 a foot and I'd have to order a minimum of 50,000 feet. They made it clear that there would be no guarantee that this wire I had them make would be as good. Pretty risky bet paying $3.5 million and it might not be as good. Not to mention I'd have to sell a bare wire set without terminations for almost $2000.
The Cable Build, What's different 
I'll go in order from the outside jacket in toward the conductors.
  • The outside jacket is a soft pliable silicone material that has a tremendously high melt point. Hold a match to it and it won't burn. It's very flexible.
  • The shield under the jacket is different than I've ever seen, and it's got to contribute to a complication factor as far as manufacturing cost, and there are further technical complications involved that have to do with even symmetry. It is comprised of almost hair fine strands of silver plated wires that are wound in a perfectly flat layer. No spaces, no overlaps, perfect coverage that is very unique. These fine wires are a pain in the butt to strip nicely, if I leave some a bit too long and clip them back I end up with tiny little pieces that end up in my skin when I try to brush them off with my hand.
  • Under that perfectly flat layer of wires is a few strands, something like 10 or 12 that are wound the opposite direction, and in the exact same twist rate that the shield wires are done. It would be a safe bet to say that this is about disrupting any field effect, neutralizing it. This twist rate is observed by everything else, at one point I measured it because it seemed impossible to maintain that matching twist rate for everything, but they obviously considered this important enough to pay big money to insist on it as a standard.
  • Under that is a flat layer of white tape, I suspect that it is a military material called Kapton that's used in wire shielding to absorb and shunt off stray frequencies that might have gotten by the shielding.
  • Then we have the two 14 gauge conductor wires that don't seem to be simple 14 gauge wires at all. They share a common theme of good neutral conductors in that they are silver plated copper, my guess is oxygen free copper. I'd also speculate that the thickness of the plating was also well explored as it seems to be a thick layer, as was the thickness of the strands.
  • The twist of the conductors is what seems noteable, it matches the twist rate of everything else, like it was intentional that the twists of all of the layers were well designed in order to negate field effect distortion. Negate field effect and it is going to make for a better cable loss factor and less coloration as applies to audiophile uses. Field effect is what creates coloration and tonal inaccuracy.
The sound, The Character?
   There is no character, it is perfectly neutral, everything in the sound range is in perfect balance. Nothing has any emphasis over anything else. Because of this neutrality it has a very smooth character. If you detect edginess or harshness it is not the cable doing that, the cable transparency is revealing something in the system that your old cable was not letting you hear. This kind of neutrality is part of getting a live natural sound. I have had multiple people put it up against Valhalla and easily prefer it in ruthlessly revealing systems. Valhalla is a cable that is quite often used by those with Wilson Audio speakers. This cable trashes Valhalla and I have represented this for almost ten years, so people with that are prone to trying this just because it's cheap enough to be worth trying.. Nobody has ever returned it to me.
Prices And Terms
   I am selling this at $25 a cable foot, four cables needed as we are combining the two conductors to double the wire gauge value. This opens up the sound and adds a degree of clarity over trying to use a single cable as an input/output from the speakers to the amp. It can be used to create a bi-wire speaker cable, or make a matching jumper to use it as a shotgun single run. My favorite thing to do that works great is to incorporate a jumper into the main set of wires so that the second set of binding posts is supplied with the same exact signal, something that makes a big difference all by itself.
  Six feet is $600. An eight foot set is $800 with no terminations, as a promotion I am selling it with excellent $400/8 Furutech bananas or spades for $750/$950, and that includes the assembly and mesh jacket I charge $150 for. This is cable I will get $1500 for. This has been cryo treated, and I can burn in terminated cables to save you breakin time, although this cable sounds good from the start.
   For those with extreme systems that can hear the difference I can make it with the $800 for 4 pairs Carbon Fiber bananas or spades.
   This is sold with a money back guarantee, always has been. I charge $12.00 for priority shipping, it costs me close to twice that insured so I'm paying part of the shipping. I'm known for sending other things where I think someone should try something. That trust is based on people being willing to trust me and try things. I'm in this for continuing sales and know that we can keep doing things that make a system better. This speaker cable is the start of hearing details in the best possible light, it's for people that would like to have $10,000 class speaker cable for a tenth of that.
   I'll either find pictures or take more to post of the build.

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