Darwin Cable Company...Ascension Speaker Cables...usedDarwin Cable Company... Ascension Speaker Cables... DEMO... SAVE!Here is a rare opportunity to own Darwin Ascension Speaker Cables at a discount. These 8' cables come directly from a Darwin Cable Company reference system in which all cables are voiced. Elegantly...1595.00

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Here is a rare opportunity to own Darwin Ascension Speaker Cables at a discount. These 8' cables come directly from a Darwin Cable Company reference system in which all cables are voiced. Elegantly engineered with an extraordinary silver cable floating in a teflon tube, spectacularly and effectively shielded on the outside. Great looks and great performance. The defining characteristic of these Darwin Ascension Speaker Cables is seamless connection, transparency and no exaggerated frequencies. Applying scientific principles, verified by months of listening tests, these cables eliminate timing issues and rolloff through the precise selection of our exceptional imported wire. No smear. No sonic anomalies whatsoever. These cables simply get out of the way.

Note: The cables for sale are bare wire terminations, which we prefer. We leave extra length so you can use screw on or solder spades or banana connects if you like. At Darwin Cable Company we have have purist sensibilities. By creating the most effective signal path in the industry, Darwin Cable Company employs the same philosophy of point to point wiring (silver, of course) used in the world's finest components. The best sounding components in the world are always those unencumbered by long circuitous routing. Simple, elegant. Profoundly effective.

Think of Darwin Cables as un-compromised, truthful, point-to-point wiring. By implementing our low mass, air dielectric design with the finest materials, a pure honest signal emerges. Why is that so important? First of all, it is incredibly revealing, top to bottom. You hear the un-manipulated truth. The sound is huge, dynamic. Taut bass. Extension. Decay.

Our Darwin Ascension Speaker Cable is true our core principles. Low mass, air dielectric, silver conductor and a clean, effective and honest signal path. The Ascension, as you would expect, is the most revealing speaker cable you are likely to have heard, but it doesn't stop there. The bass response is taut, low and true, and everything in between, present and accounted for—the big picture and the micro-detail and layering that transforms a great listening experience into a transcendent one.

Through laborious research and development, examination of numerous prototypes—as well as previous experience with many, many other speaker cables with prices well into the thousands—we kept coming back to silver as the key to the performance we demanded. Silver is a superior conductor to copper, and that is obvious with our interconnect design.

But with higher voltages, the theory goes, it is less of an issue with speaker cables. Wrong. Your ears cannot be fooled. The only advantage copper has is economical. That's why everyone else is selling copper cables. We built numerous prototypes with copper, too, because we are committed to delivering world class performance at prices that reflect our blue collar sensibilities and backgrounds. Thick or thin, stranded or solid core, this gauge and that gauge, those copper cables all fell short.

Stranded copper wires lacked coherence. Solid core copper was better, but veiled. The heavier the gauge, the more anomalies we heard. Big and fat copper cables looked great but almost always sounded bloated and unrefined. The top was always rolled off. The bottom muddy.

Top speaker manufacturers often use silver wire. It just sounds better. Many audiophiles over the years have soldered silver speaker wires directly to the drivers, understanding the spectacular performance of silver and the wisdom of minimizing the signal path. Our Darwin Cables operate on that same purist logic.

By capitalizing on silver's superior conductivity, we are able to use a thinner wire of superb quality. A thinner wire minimizes skin effect while delivering every frequency. The thicker the wire, the more skin effect, requiring more power to deliver the upper frequencies with the same effectiveness as low frequencies. That's why thicker cables sound rolled off. They are. The initial illusion may be of a “bigger” bottom, but invariably that is because of the loss of the high frequency extension and top end sparkle. This is a typical bottleneck in audio systems. Sound familiar? It drives audiophiles up a wall, trying to figure out where the problem lies.

Copper degrades and declines in performance with exposure to air, so with copper speaker cables you have three things working against you as compared to silver:

1. Copper has lower conductivity. Silver is 6% more conductive.

2. The necessity of applying sound killing dielectric to the wire to avoid oxidation. The dielectric veils performance and demands extended break in time. Our cables settle in much more quickly and coherently.

3. Silver gives you the option of eliminating a termination and going minimalist—bare wire. The simpler, more direct path is always more effective. That said, we have found some terminations that are extremely effective if your circumstances so dictate.

Our design ensures spectacular detail, attack decay and extension and absolutely truthful bass—big, bold and deep. If it is on the recording, you'll hear it with no frequency exaggerated.

We use a very high grade oversized Teflon conduit on our Darwin Ascension Speaker Cables to “float” the conductor through, avoiding the mush that is inherent in coated wires buried under substandard dielectric. Even shielding in close proximity to the conductor will diminish performance. We solved that by putting the shield on the outside! It's effective, rugged, elegant and sleek. Each conductor is housed in its own tube to preserve the integrity of the signal. The thick teflon and steel housing provides superb damping without compromising the air dielectric philosophy.

We tested for hundreds of hours in real world conditions, varying amplification from 250 solid state WPC to 30 WPC tube amplification into moderately-low sensitivity 4 ohm speakers. Resistance is the key. At 8 feet, resistance is less than 0.12 ohms, decibel loss is an inconsequential 0.27 dB.

Pushed hard, these Darwin Speaker Cables remain smooth, dynamic and balanced. And tubes love these cables! From low-power tube amps to those with a beefier output, there's an otherworldly synchronicity. Even old school Dynaco rebuilds perk up. The bass has better focus and the upper end extension is enhanced.

In keeping with our philosophy, the Darwin Ascension speaker cables deliver an un-compromised, pure, organic signal from amplifier to speaker. A pristine signal path translates into a palpable richness. Layers. Textures. Nuance.

Here's what one of our recent clients had to say...

• "The conventional wisdom is that the price of quality is exponential, i.e., as quality increases, price increases exponentially. The brand name manufacturers have applied this convention to produce high quality components at high or very high prices. When a product is introduced into the market with a price increase that is proportional to the quality increase, the knowledgeable buyer perceives the product to be a bargain. So what happens when a new, superior product is introduced at a price that is less than the prices of competing products? The knowledgeable buyer might consider this to be an outstanding bargain (a "steal" in the vernacular). And what happens when the quality of the new product is substantially superior to competing products but offered at a small fraction of the prices of competing products? The knowledgeable buyer might express skepticism and call this "unbelievable". Here is my personal experience with the Darwin Ascension speaker cables and Darwin Ascension Plus interconnects. (Unlike typical cable construction) the thick, heavy wraps of shielding and insulation are gone. The dinge and grunge and murkiness and sludge are gone. The brightness and metallic edge are gone. These are the cleanest, clearest, fastest, and most musical cables that it has ever been our pleasure to experience. The Darwin Ascension and Ascension Plus series of cables deliver clarity without brightness and speed without a metallic edge. Our plan is to replace all speaker and IC cables in our system with Darwin Ascension family of cables. We are about halfway to our goal and have been discreetly selling the substantially higher priced cables in our system to achieve our goal." —Paul Schaller, Arizona

Darwin Cable Company offers a wide selection of reference products at real world prices. See our other Audiogon listings today!

All Darwin Cables come with a 30-Day Peace of Mind Money Back guarantee. Darwin Cable Company offers an impressive line-up of cables with even more impressive performance to cost ratios. All you have to lose is the grunge. Call or message us to help you choose the best cable to fit your budget and expectations. Watch for occasional listings of prototype, demo and B-stock cables.

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