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The Connectors

Even in todays high end market it is rare that a cable manufacturer makes their own connectors made particularly for their cables.

Instead they choose a standard component made by a third party.

This leads to constrictions on the design of the cables and in many cases fit and finish that are several steps from being “high end” because they are covered in layers of heat shrink that compensate for poor strain relief and/or mismatch between the cable and the connector

As you have without doubt noticed in your trip through the audio world many cable manufactures have a very intense focus on the purity of the metal used for their conductors. leading to claims of 99.9999999% purity by some manufactures.

However, the connectors that are mounted on these high purity cables are surprisingly often made of metal that is a copper alloy such as brass, bronze, and in the best cases Tellurium copper.

So, all of sudden purity is not so important anymore?

In reality the difference in conductivity between a 99.99% pure copper conductor and a 99.9999% pure conductor at room temperature is less than 1% but the difference between 99.99% pure copper and brass used for many connectors are at least a factor of 4.

The reason such inferior connectors are chosen is because they are cheaper and much easier to make.

Further the situation in the market is such that companies that claim to use connectors with pure copper contacts have no real control over the manufacturing process because the connectors are often sourced from 3^rd party manufactures of little or no repute to keep their purchasing prices low.

In contrast to this the RCA, XLR and spade connectors on the Organic Audio products are made in Denmark by our long-term partner and all materials are supplied from highly reputable European manufactures.

The contacts on these connectors are made of the same type of copper used for our conductors– creating a continuous high conductivity path for the signal to run though.

Further our connector design allows use to attach the XLR connectors,the Reference spade connectors and the positive pin in the RCA without the use of solder creating a copper to copper interface without any low conductivity intermediate metal.

Damped Air Dielectric

Choosing the correct material for insulation is a very important part of making a high performance audio cable.

The importance of a choosing a material with a low dielectric constant is logical because it will lower the capacitance of the cable which is why many cables are insulated with plastic materials such as PTFE (Teflon) or PE.

The solution we choose for the Organic cables consists of a very light weight and porous layer of fibers consisting of mostly air.

This solution has a very low dielectric constant of 1,3 which is significantly lower than the both Teflon and PE or any other plastic.

Apart from the obvious advantage of having a very low dielectric constant the fiber layer also provides a solution to one of the omnipresent problems in hifi systems – the negative influence of vibrations.

The soft and porous layer of fibers acts as a vibration canceling layer around the conductor because the conductor is basically suspended instead of being in contact with a hard material that transmits the smallest vibration from the air, floor or the attached equipment.

Further the solution is a significant improvement over the normal air dielectric solutions seen in many cables because such a construction are very sensitiv to vibrations.

Our use of this type of dielectric is in fact one of the most important reasons that Organic Audio cables are always described by customers as having a very dark background.

Our name for this dual-purpose insulation material is “Damped Air Dielectric”.

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