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Level 2 Analog XLR Interconnects (starting at $200/pair): A stereo pair of balanced ANTICABLES Interconnects which will enable line level analog connections between components.

Highlights:

• Starts at only $200/pair
• 30 day risk free trial
• Fully Balanced design
• Oxygen Free Copper
• Copper impurities have been reduced down to 5 parts per million
• Signal wire is cryogenically treated by Cryogenics International
• Made in USA (one pair at a time in Lake Elmo MN)

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Design Concept:

Typical interconnect cables usually have a signal wire surrounded with a thick plastic dielectric material, which is then surrounded by the ground conductor to shield it from EMI/RFI noise, and then more plastic dielectric material. This typical approach has the usual drawbacks of accumulating a lot of dielectric effect distortion, and an accumulation of shunting capacitance. The

ANTICABLES Analog XLR Interconnects use a different approach. Since air is a near perfect dielectric, no extra insulation dielectric material (beyond the thin red coating) is used, and the wires are suspended in free air. Eliminating dielectric effect distortion is what allows these interconnects to sound like music, (not a cable).

Additional Features:

• No thick plastic jacketing, which adds dielectric effect distortion and smears the audio signal
• New XLR plugs use Gold plated 90% Copper alloy (not brass) contacts
• Double shielded option is available for use with turntables or when extra RFI/EMI protection may be needed. Click on thumbnail photo just below the "ADD TO BAG" button for more details.
• Sound less like a cable and more like real music than cables costing many times more (see Testimonials)

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Sound Improvements over Level 1 Interconnects:

• Smoother and more extended highs
• Greater dynamics
• More resolving
• Greater harmonic structure
• Greater purity of tone
• Stronger more tuneful bass
• Nearly as resolving as silver wire, but with the smoother Copper sound

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Upgrade Paths:

The Level 3.1 Analog XLR Interconnects (starting at $250/pr), utilizes our new Silver/Gold alloy signal conductors which are more resolving of textural and tactual information.

The Level 4.1 Analog XLR Interconnects (starting at $550/pr), utilizes our new Silver/Gold alloy signal conductors which are more resolving of textural and tactual information, and also adds the worlds best sounding Xhadow Precision XLR Plugs, and additional shielding.