Pangea Audio Premier SE Interconnect Cable - RCA to RCA

The Premier SE Puts Air Around the Copper

Pangea Audio's Premier SE keeps Cardas Grade One copper and changes what surrounds it. Jay Victor designed it with PE air-tube insulation. Both the signal and the return conductors get it. Pangea says that construction had been limited to far costlier cables until manufacturing improved.

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Why Air Tubes Are Hard to Make

An air tube is PE extruded as a hollow sleeve, so the conductor sits mostly in air rather than plastic. The tube has to be processed slowly or it collapses during manufacture. Air stores very little charge. That is why cable designers chase it, and why Pangea took on the slower process.

Three Shields, Then a Plug with Almost No Metal

Three layers of shielding wrap the conductors. They are a silver-plated copper braid, an aluminum and Mylar foil, and a carbon-filled PE layer. Pangea added the carbon-filled layer as one more barrier to noise. It does not stiffen the cable. A thermoplastic rubber jacket covers everything.

Spring Contacts and a Hollow Pin

The Prime 750 RCA plug carries as little metal as possible. The center pin is hollow tellurium copper, gold plated straight onto the metal. The ground contacts are beryllium copper springs, also gold plated. A polymer insulator, not a metal ring, holds the plug together. The shell is non-magnetic brass in black chrome.

Who Is This Interconnect Best For?

• You want air-tube insulation in a working system — both conductors sit in PE air tubes, once found only on far costlier cables, so the insulation is no longer the compromise
• Your components share a shelf with power supplies — braid, foil and a carbon-filled layer are three barriers to noise, so what the rack radiates stays off the signal
• You connect and reconnect gear often — the Prime 750's spring contacts grip the jack's outer ring, so the plug holds without being forced
• You want the cable to bend, not fight — the third shield does not stiffen the cable and the rubber jacket stays supple, so routing through a cabinet does not strain the jacks
• Your RCA jacks sit close together — the Prime 750 barrel is 14.65 mm at its widest point. Tightly packed jacks may not take two side by side. Measure the gap first, or call us with your component and we will check the fit, or browse our Interconnect Cables

How Does It Connect to Your System?

Run the Premier SE from a line-level output, a DAC, streamer, CD player or phono stage, to a line-level input on your amplifier or preamp. Keep left to left and right to right. Push each plug straight on until the spring contacts take hold. The black chrome shell gives you a firm grip.

Seat it, and it stays.

Measure the Path, Then Add a Little Slack

Measure the route the cable will really take between your components, around shelves and behind the rack. Then add a little slack. As audio legend George Cardas puts it, "A cable that's just long enough usually turns out to be just not long enough." Keep the left and right cables the same length. We recommend a matched pair.

RCA or XLR? Check Both Ends

If both components offer balanced XLR jacks, we recommend using XLRs. If one has only RCA jacks, use RCA, and skip the adapter. You only get the possible benefits of a balanced output with a pure XLR-to-XLR connection.

A Long Run Between Components?

If your amplifier and speakers sit far from your source, we recommend a long interconnect over a long speaker cable. A really long interconnect affects system performance less than a really long speaker cable.

When Is It Time to Upgrade?

An interconnect often stays in a system for years, so it is easy to overlook. Look again when something else changes: a new DAC, streamer or phono stage, a better amplifier, or a move to components with balanced XLR jacks.

Pairs Well With

An interconnect is one link in the chain. It usually joins these categories.

• Integrated Amplifiers — the usual input end
• Digital-to-Analog Converters — DAC output to amplifier
• Music Streamers — streamer output to amplifier
• Speaker Cables — the last link to the speakers

Frequently Asked Questions

What is different about the Prime 750 plug?

It carries very little metal: a hollow tellurium copper pin and beryllium copper spring contacts, both gold plated. Pangea's reason is eddy currents, small stray currents that heavier contacts allow.

What is air-tube insulation?

PE extruded as a hollow tube, so the conductor rests mostly in air rather than plastic. The Premier SE uses it on both the signal and return conductors.

Which components does it connect?

Any line-level source with RCA outputs, a DAC, streamer, CD player, tuner or phono stage, to an amplifier or preamp with RCA inputs.

Is there a step up from the Premier SE?

Cardas Clear Sky is the next step we recommend. It is the entry to Cardas's Clear series. It is built on what Cardas calls Matched Propagation conductors in a quadaxial layout.

Need a Different Length or Connector?

The most popular configurations are shown on this page. If your system requires a different length or termination, call our audio experts. We’ll help you choose the right configuration and arrange a custom cable for your system.

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