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"Instruments Sounded So Real, So Fleshed Out"
Clear Reflection speaker cable is designed to blend the best of bestselling Cardas Audio Golden Reference cable with the benefits of Clear speaker cable and George Cardas' Matched Propagation technology. This cable has the richness and musicality of the classic and very successful Golden Reference, but it also delivers the clarity and transparency of Clear.
"Instruments sounded so real, so fleshed out and as if there was a magical light around them giving them a little bit of glow and this is where I heard a huge improvement," raves Steve Huff, stevehuffphoto.com, August 2, 2021. "Not a hint of harshness or glare nor was there any hint of being closed in or overly warm. These were gorgeous cables and truly changed the sound of my system for the better…"
"Fluid, Organized, Detailed"
"When stacked against more expensive cables, Cardas Clear Reflection held its own and, accordingly, gets high marks for delivering good performance at a reasonable price. Clear Reflection is a fantastic cable in its own right. Cardas is on to something with its blend of the company’s previous Golden Reference design and its current Clear technology," reports Kirk Midtskog in The Absolute Sound magazine.
"I was charmed by Clear Reflection’s fluid, organized, detailed, and generally musically satisfying qualities. I would not hesitate to recommend it to others and would consider it myself for a second system. Mr. Cardas, take a bow."
Matched Propagation Conductors
Clear Reflection Interconnect boasts a Matched Propagation Kevlar core and Grade 1, 99.9999% pure oxygen free copper conductors with SPN clear coat (Litz), gauge sizes scaled to Golden Ratio proportions.
Clear Reflection uses cross-field layer geometry, insulated in an FEP taped jacket, with an anti-static fiber core Tri-Quad 12 conductor using anti-static filler to separate the three groups bound together in FEP tape. The outer jacket is ultra soft extruded TPR.
Cardas Clear Reflection Speaker Cable is terminated with quality Cardas connectors. The gauge is 12 x 11.5 AWG with an outside diameter of 0.680"/17.27mm.
"Rich, Deep Sound with Large Images"
"They produce very rich, deep sound with large images of instruments. Music comes from the depths of the huge soundstage when needed or close to the listener, although that doesn't happen too often," observes Woiciech Pacuta, highfidelity.pl.
"You can't go wrong buying Clear Reflection no matter what kind of system you have – it's a beautiful cable from beautiful people."
Cardas Clear Technology
Cardas Clear cables use newly applied technology that is George Cardas' breakthrough solution to the smeared, unfocused sound that's inherent in standard cable designs. Cardas Clear uses Matched Propagation Conductors to deliver what George calls "an unprecedented window of clarity."
Clear technology is scientifically demonstrable. It presents a 'clear' technical solution to a core problem that is intrinsic to signal-carrying cables (speaker cables, interconnects, etc.) and will quite 'clearly' improve the sound of connected hi-fi and home theater components.
The Trouble is Dielectrics
One problem with standard audio cable designs is that the cable dielectric (also known as cable insulation) produces an electrical effect that interferes with the audio signal. While there is no current flow in dielectric materials, the dielectric accumulates and releases an electrical charge in response to the current flow in the conductor, much like the charging and discharging of a capacitor. But the electrical discharge from the dielectric is out of sync with the electrical signal in the conductor.
While the electrical signal in the conductor moves at the speed of light, the charge propagation in dielectric material is limited to approximately 78 percent of the speed of light. The discharge of the dielectric lags behind the charge in the conductor, causing a smearing of low-level information in the cable.
The Lagging Charge Problem
At very high frequencies, cables can appear to propagate faster because the slower dielectric materials don't have the time to charge at very high frequencies, and the lag is diminished.
At audio frequencies, however, this lag creates a noticeable problem. That's why dielectric manufacturers may brag about what their dielectrics will do at a million cycles per second, but don't talk about what they do at a thousand cycles per second, where the negative effects are audible. Jitter is one directly observable artifact of this conductor/dielectric relationship.
Some cable manufacturers try to compensate for this differential lagging in a cable by adding an electrical network (for example, by using a load coil), but the damage has already been done. Once the low level information in the signal has been smeared, it is lost and cannot be recovered.
The Matched Propagation Solution
Since the so-called 'charge propagation velocity' of the dielectric can never equal the speed of electrical changes in the conductors, George Cardas' ingenious solution with Cardas Clear cables is to slow the conductor to match the rate of the dielectric.
In a concentrically stranded conductor with individually coated strands (such as the constant "Q" conductor used in Cardas cables) the vector velocity and decay time of the conductor can be matched to that of the dielectric by controlling the lay length progression (twists per inch or TPI) of successive strand layers.
A matched propagation velocity conductor of this type, as used in Cardas Clear cables, mitigates the effects of capacitance much as a load coils do, but it does this continuously in the cable rather than at intervals. Eliminating the time delay between storage elements in the cable itself eliminates the bandwidth and dynamic range limitation seen in periodically loaded cables.
“A Short History of Audio Cable” by George Cardas (4mb PDF) 
“Dielectric Propagation Velocity” by George Cardas (120k PDF)
