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Recommended by The Absolute Sound's Buyers Guide to Cables, Power Products, Accessories & Music
Natural Treble, Smooth Midrange, and Quick Bass Response
Iridium Interconnect replaces Microtwin in the Cardas Audio product line. Combining a star quad arrangement with Cardas Audio's proven Golden Ratio copper conductors, the Cardas Iridium interconnect achieves the perfect balance of detail and warmth. Natural treble is blended with a smooth midrange and quick bass response for a very musical interconnect, in both singled ended and balanced configurations.
The November 2018 issue of The Absolute Sound magazine praises Cardas Iridium, noting that the cable "leaned toward being even in sonic distribution with a slightly warmer-than-neutral presentation."
"Warmth and Musicality"
"The Iridium cables continue the company’s tradition of warmth and musicality—and compared with their predecessors, the Twinlink speaker wire and Microtwin interconnect, the Iridium cables are said to offer improved imaging. Iridium wires also feature upgraded terminations, and soft rubber jackets for improved look and feel," notes The Absolute Sound's 2016 Buyers Guide to Cables, Power Products, Accessories & Music.
"Powerful, Rich Bass, Excellent Dynamics"
"Cardas Audio is a very competent, trustworthy manufacturer. The Iridium line to some extent continues the course taken by American brand a long time ago, because it delivers powerful, rich bass… and delivers an excellent dynamics. It will be a great complement to any system that thrives on timbre and dynamics," reports Woiciech Pacuta in his review for Poland's highfidelity.pl, February 1, 2017
"It will calm down systems that are slightly too 'rushed,' but will not cause those on the darker side of the spectrum to become 'muddy.' It will add some color and vigor to them. One should also note that these are particularly flexible cables and not too heavy, so they will work very well also with small/light devices."
Sophisticated Conductors and Geometry
With an outer diameter of 0.300", Iridium interconnect uses 4 x 24.5 AWG premium Cardas Copper conductors in a Star-Quad four conductor geometry with PFA and carbon-impregnated tape dielectric. Its gauge sizes are scaled to Golden Ratio proportions.
Iridium is available as an unbalanced cable terminated with Cardas GRMO RCA plugs or as a balanced cable terminated with Neutrik XLRs. It is finished in an ultra soft extruded TPR jacket
"I currently use Iridium... I have not directly compared them to anything else but have been using them for almost four years now and like them," reports GBARGEE, forums.stevehoffman.tv, October 17, 2024. "Like the previous poster said, I also read a comment on another forum where someone quoted George Cardas as saying that the Iridium cables were the best performance value in their line."
