Cardas Audio Clear Beyond Interconnect Cable - XLR to XLR - Pairs

Recommended Component 2025 – Stereophile

Editor's Choice Award 2024 – hi-fi+ Magazine

Editors' Choice Award 2019 - The Absolute Sound Magazine

"Very Highly Recommended!" - The Ultimate Flagship Interconnect

Clear Beyond Interconnect is Cardas Audio's ultimate flagship interconnect and a marvel of modern cable design. It features Cardas' most advanced Matched Propagation Conductors. Clear Beyond Interconnect brings noteworthy improvements in spatial imaging, dynamics, and low frequency impact while retaining the classic Cardas musicality.

"Recommended Component" Honors

Stereophile honored Clear Beyond by awarding it the magazine's coveted Recommend Component status for 2025.

According to Stereophile,"When [HR, Herb Reichert] replaced the budget-priced Cardas Iridium between a dCS Bartók DAC and Genelec's G Three active speakers with the flagship Clear Beyond interconnect, HR wrote that 'the apparent volume of the recording venue expanded dramatically—and with that expansion came an equally dramatic sense of separation [between orchestra and choir]. Moreover, I noticed a newfound well-sortedness and a new form of dark quiet – a silence quite unlike any I'd experienced before.' HR concluded that the Cardas Clear Beyond endowed the sound from the Genelec speakers 'with a sublime quiet, a grand spaciousness, and seemingly infinite LSD detail.'"

Award-Winning Performance

England's hi-fi+ magazine honored the Cardas Clear Beyond Interconnect with an Editor's Choice Award for 2024.

"In our test, everything about Clear Beyond was a revelation. We reviewed Clear Beyond interconnects, loudspeaker cables, and standard and XL power cords separately. However, combined in a system, their organic, lithe, and effortlessly fluid qualities worked in perfect harmony."

"The balance and poise of a system sporting Cardas Audio Clear Beyond is remarkable. Detail, dynamics, and soundstaging are excellent, but articulation and coherence are class-leading. Cardas Audio's Clear Beyond unlocks the full potential of high-end audio systems, allowing listeners to experience a more immersive and enjoyable audio experience. The name is apt… there's nothing more Clear than Cardas."

The Absolute Sound magazine honored Cardas Clear Beyond interconnect and Clear Beyond speaker cable with an Editors' Choice 2019 award in the March 2019 issue of the magazine.

"This thick blue cable takes the patented technologies in Cardas cables to new heights," reports The Absolute Sound. "Clear sounds as close as you can get to having no sound. Eclipsed only in performance by Clear Beyond. Where Clear used four conductors, Clear Beyond features eight, meticulously build up using multi-gauge strands in a 'Golden Section' symmetrical triaxial design."

Dedication to the Perfection of High Performance Cables

Clear Beyond Interconnect builds on over 30 years of Cardas Audio’s relentless dedication to the perfection of high performance cables. Superior shielding and advanced air-tube suspension geometry result in an O.D. of .511”, which necessitates the use of the Cardas XRCA 13 adaptor for single-ended termination or a redesigned CG XLR for balanced cables.

More than anything, Clear Beyond Interconnect is musical. Tonal balance is completely neutral with unsurpassed speed and transparency. Each pair is made to order and hand terminated only by Cardas Audio senior technicians.

"As with the power cord and speaker cables, Clear Beyond interconnects offer a step up on the already outstanding Clear," notes Alan Sircom in HiFi+ magazine. "Clear remains one of the best interconnects we have ever heard, but Clear Beyond confidently improves upon that performance in almost all aspects, without any sacrifices in performance. It might be the most expensive cable Cardas has ever made, but it is well worth it. Very highly recommended!"

"The Best Copper on the Planet"

Clear Beyond boasts conductors made with Cardas Grade One copper, which George Cardas calls "the best copper on the planet." This copper is mined in Arizona, then shipped to a New England factory where it is very S-L-O-W-L-Y drawn into conductors in a process that includes reduction annealing between steps to further purify and meld the copper into what George calls "the most amazing audio conductor I have ever experienced."

Clear Beyond Construction

Clear Beyond features Cardas' most advanced line-level conductors, constructed of ultra-pure Cardas copper, scaled to the Golden Ratio. Each strand is insulated from the others with a special enamel coating. Arranged in a star-quad geometry and suspended by carbon impregnated air-tubes, the conductor core is double-shielded using a proprietary combination of both plated and bare copper and includes a pair of Litz drain wires.

As with the rest of the Clear product line, Clear Beyond Interconnect uses Matched Propagation technology, in which the propagation rate of the copper strands is matched to that of the dielectric. The subject of George Cardas' 2008 patent (US Patent 7,674,973), this conductor technology keeps the signal intact and intelligible without the use of load coils or networks, solving an age old problem dating back to the first transmission lines.

Clear Beyond Interconnect takes Matched Propagation further than ever before, with meticulous attention paid to every detail of the braiding stage of construction, and a no-compromise approach to dielectric choices. No Cardas interconnect is as demanding to build, and thus Clear Beyond Interconnect is built in small quantities, to ensure consistent quality.

Spectacular Performance

Matched Propagation conductors match the speed of the conductor to the propagation rate of the dielectric material. This is done by selecting dielectrics with the most advantageous electrical properties, and braiding each layer of the conductor with very specific pitch and lay length specifications.

The audible benefits of Matched Propagation technology are due to the signal remaining intact, never getting out of time with the dielectric. This is a graceful "in-cable" solution to a problem that has plagued analog audio transmission lines since the early days of the telephone.

Improving upon the spectacular performance of Clear Interconnect, Clear Beyond combines the famous Cardas musicality with a wider, taller sound stage, deeper bass, and increased dynamics. Everything just gets bigger and better, as a cable carrying the name "Beyond" should.

Custom Hand-Termination

Clear Beyond Interconnect's advanced air-tube suspension and shielding results in an outside diameter of 13mm. This necessitates the use of a special adapter to fit Cardas Audio's legendary SRCA for single-ended terminations, and a redesigned CG XLR for balanced cables.

The ultra-fine copper strands in the Clear Beyond conductors, built up around a center core of Kevlar yarn, require the expert hands and eyes of Cardas Audio's most experienced terminators. Each pair of Clear Beyond Interconnect is hand terminated at the Cardas Audio factory in Bandon, Oregon, and subject to a battery of tests and measurements.

Product Features

Standard Terminations: Cardas SRCA or CG XLR
Conductors: Matched Propagation Kevlar core, ultra fine Grade 1, 99.9999% pure oxygen free copper with SPN clear coat (Litz), gauge sizes scaled to Golden Ratio proportions and range from 47 AWG to 39 AWG. Cross-field layer geometry, insulated in ultra thin extruded PTFE jacket
Geometry: Star-Quad 4 conductors with anti-static LDPE air-tubes bound with carbon impregnated PTFE tape wrap. Outer layer uses PTFE air-tubes scaled 1.618 times larger than the core tubes to suspend the composite shield of tinned copper and magnet wire away from the signal carrying conductors. Finished in an ultra soft extruded TPR jacket

Product Specs

Gauge: 4x26.5 AWG
Outside Diameter: .511”/13mm

"The Clear Beyond performed as its name implies. From the upper mid-band on up, there is an open, stratospheric extension laden with effortless detail rendition, micro transient crispness, and space. With time, the rest of the spectrum catches up to that exalted level and becomes very linear bottom to top."

"When fully burned in, the Clear Beyond is of one sonic piece. Nothing sounds out of place or varying in character from one frequency range to another. The mid-range was a perfect bridge from the treble to the bass. Open, clean as a whistle, and fast as a jackrabbit. Vocals breathe beautifully rising and falling dynamically with great ease, and loaded with delicate inflection. Of course this applies to instrumentals as well. This wire allows for a very expressive, temporal, and rhythmic presentation, with a very high swing level. As a result, the musical engagement is very high."

"So transparent is the Clear Beyond, it is the perfect interface for those who want as little between their components as possible."

"In conjunction with the Clear Beyond's neutrality and the fire hose full of information that it flushes through the system, it also manages to maintain a dose of that Cardas magic that those who are familiar with the brand, have so valued over the years. This may seem to contradict all the above talk of neutrality, implying there is a "sound" related to the Clear Beyond. On an absolute level, that would have to be true. But this is one of those times where I gladly accept the paradox of neutrality and implicit "magic" while sitting back, throwing on some beloved music, and counting my blessing."

- Gregory Petan, Positive Feedback Issue 19, June 24, 22

"The Cardas Audio Clear Beyond Interconnects bring Cardas into the rarefied world of super cables, and set the standard for depth reproduction and quiet for them all. They are a leap forward for this prestigious brand and their resident genius, George Cardas. The engineering design is inspired and their neutrality and musicality are exceptional. The extraordinary quiet enhances the imaging, adding snap and realism. Cardas Audio Clear Beyond Interconnects are set-and-forget, giving us fanatics the ability to just listen to our systems and happily conjure up new components to acquire."

"I highly recommend the Cardas Audio Clear Beyond Interconnects."

- Robert H. Levi, Positive Feedback Issue 13, May 1, 219

219 Editors' Choice Award – The Absolute Sound

"This thick blue cable takes the patented technologies in Cardas cables to new heights. The balanced and single-ended interconnects and the loudspeaker cable are functionally identical in sound. But that doesn’t mean a ‘house’ sound; instead, Clear sounds as close as you can get to having no sound. [Clear is] eclipsed in performance only by Cardas Clear Beyond. Where Clear used four conductors, Clear Beyond features eight, meticulously built up using multi-guage in a “Golden Section” symmetrical tri-axial design."

- The Absolute Sound, March 219

"As with the power cord and speaker cables, Clear Beyond interconnects offer a step up on the already outstanding Clear. Clear remains one of the best interconnects we have ever heard, but Clear Beyond confidently improves upon that performance in almost all aspects, without any sacrifices in performance. It might be the most expensive cable Cardas has ever made, but it is well worth it. Very highly recommended!"

- Alan Sircom, HiFi+ magazine, July 31, 217

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Cardas Audio Clear Beyond Interconnect Cable - XLR to XLR, Pairs, Various Lengths