AUDIO NOTE SILVER AUDIO CABLE

Silver technology and the desire for simpler, more elegant and natural ways
to recover the maximum amount of musical information are the primary goals
at Audio Note. The silver wire used in the original Audio Note mic preamp was
developed into a Moving-coil step-up transformer and the first high-end silver
speaker wire, the Audio Note AN-SP and the first serious interconnect the
Audio Note AN-V [1976].

All Audio Note silver wire is 99.99% pure silver coated with six coats of a special
polyurethane varnish immediately after drawing. The wire is then age annealed
to enhance the crystal boundary chemistry. Audio Note is the only audio
manufacturer to use this expensive process to make their wire. After the
aging process, it is then braided into either a 15-wire, 20-wire or 30-wire Litz
configuration - very gently! The braid is then coated with a custom extruded
polyurethane foam, This coating provides a proper impedance match with
the wire braid and the wire jacket. The wire feels soft and supple and provides
the best possible 'wove gu/de' for the music signal "shockwave".


SILVER SPEAKER CABLE: AN-SP & AN-SPx

The AN-SP speaker cable is a 15-strand Li+z and the AN-SPx speaker
wire is a 20-strand Litz. The other difference between these two silver cables is
the care and labour used to apply the extruded foam. The foam application
(a vacuum bonding process] is a slow and labour intensive process that must
be done carefully for best results - the AN-SPx takes 8 times longer to make
than the AN-SP. Audio Note has, for 20 years, paid great attention to the
issues of energy storage behaviour. Not only in their cable, but in their
capacitors, transformers, and speakers,


SILVER INTERCONNECT: AN-V & AN-Vx

AN-V and AN-Vx interconnects are made using the same high purity
silver [99.99%] as the speaker wire. The AN-V has 15-0.09mm dia, strands,
The AN-Vx has 20 strands. Common to all our interconnect cables is that
both the signal and the earth return are conducted in the same way, this is
a twin coax design, special to all Audio Note interconnects, Each twisted
set of conductors is insulated with a soft PVC jacket. The two conductors are
twisted and then sheathed in extruded poly foam, The foam supports the
twisted shield and the shield is then tightly set in an impedance matching
PVC jacket. Remember, most manufacturers design audio wire with no
consideration to preserving the energy balance of the whole "shoe/wave"
that is the music signal, nor have they looked at or addressed the problems
of wideband energy storage control. A close look at the 'evolution' of the
audio cable industry shows that over the twenty years since Audio Note
introduced the AN-SP, AN-SPx, AN-V, and AN-Vx cables all the
other big name manufacturers have created designs that look more and
more like the Audio Note's original design.


THE NEW SUPER CABLES: AN-Vz & AN-SPz

Today, twenty years after our first cables were introduced Audio Note
has ventured even further and has completed design work on two new
top-of-the-range cables, where all the complex aspects of our knowledge
and experience is taken to its full and logical completion,
AN-VZ interconnect uses THREE times the silver strands as in the earlier
AN-Vx; AN-SPz has SIX times that of AN-SPx. The new 120-strand
AN-SPz speaker wire can also be utilized in bi-wired configuration with only
a modest loss in resolution as compared to two complete sets of AN-SPz.
Construction of the "Z" Series is similar to Audio Note's earlier wires, with subtle,
significant, and expensive improvements in manufacture.

Make no mistake about it: Audio Note's "Z" Series wires completely
obliterate any notion of "reference" from our respected competition.
The difference isn't the least bit subtle!

With the SPz, vocalists no longer suffer from chronic colds. Bass has
timbre, punch, and texture such as cannot be realized with error-correcting
cables. Treble clarity is so highly resolved that it makes the case for CD
reproduction like nothing you've ever heard. Also, Audio Note cables are
essentially non-reactive with their amplifier loading, It is not necessary to
buy one cable for tube electronics and another for solid state.
Audio Note's "Z" wires are expensive. On the other hand, in terms of music
reproduction, they are also conclusive!


AUDIO NOTE COPPER WIRE

The Audio Note copper audio wires are drawn in Japan to the same
exacting specifications as the silver Audio Note wires. All the same design
principles are applied to these our more affordable wires. The highest
grades of age annealed OFHC - 4 or 6 nines (99.99% & 99.9999%]
copper are used.

AN-A is the entry level Interconnect product [yellow). AN-C is the best
of the copper interconnects (red). AN-D is the entry level speaker wire
(green & red). This very inexpensive cable works so well with all tube
amplifiers that very few, if any, cables by other manufacturers con
compete, AN-B is a high quality, general purpose speaker cable that
no only supports the Audio Note line but works extremely well with high
power (high current) solid state amplifiers (blue). AN-L is the all out version
of Audio Note's thinking on copper speaker cable, It is a 6N copper Litz
with a braided copper shield that is tied to ground at the amplifier 0-Volt
terminal. All of these cables were developed behind single-ended triode
amplification and have no peers in these applications, but also have
proven to enhance the naturalness of the best solid state systems,

In summary: Audio Note INVENTED the speciality audio cable industry
in 1976. Audio Note smelts its own metal, draws its own wire - through
their own, custom designed, diamond dies, then coats the wire with
Audio Note's own custom polyurethane, then AGE ANNEALS the wire,
before braiding the Litz and encasing the braid in extruded foam and
PVC jacket. These are very time consuming and expensive processes.
Other manufacturers are simply not willing to go this far, either for
commercial reasons or because they do not fundamentally understand
the audio signal's essential requirements.

That's all there is to it: the direct and complete transmission of the
complex musical waveform. Remember that just because a complex
signal begins and ends its trip at the same time, doesn't mean that it
has made the same journey as a signal which makes no detours,