Pangea Audio Premier XL Coaxial Digital Cable

Premier XL Is the Top of Pangea's Coaxial Digital Line

Pangea Audio's Premier XL is the company's top coaxial digital cable. Its 18-gauge signal conductor is Cardas Grade One Copper plated with 6% silver, wrapped in four shield layers and foamed polyethylene. What sets it above the SE is the Prime 750 RCA plug, one Jay Victor calls one of the best on the market.

18-Gauge Cardas Grade One Copper With 6% Silver

Pangea winds the 18-gauge signal conductor from Cardas Grade One Copper, the metal George Cardas draws for his own cables, and plates it with 6% pure silver. Designer Jay Victor says he has found silver plating crucial to digital audio cable performance. Foamed polyethylene insulates it.

Quad-Layered Shielding Under a Nylon Braid

Pangea wraps the conductor in what it calls quad-layered shielding: a double-sided aluminum and mylar foil, a 1.25% silver-plated braided shield and a carbon-impregnated polyethylene layer. Jay Victor says any noise that enters a digital cable distorts sound. A TPR jacket and woven nylon braid finish Premier XL.

The Prime 750 RCA Plugs, Explained

Premier XL ends in a Pangea Prime 750 RCA plug at each end. RCA is the single-pin plug on the coaxial digital output of most CD players, streamers and DACs. Pangea lists an ultra-low-mass hollow center pin of direct gold-plated tellurium copper, spring-type ground contacts of gold-plated beryllium copper, and a non-magnetic aluminum cover with a baked-on chromium finish.

Who Is This Digital Cable Best For?

• You want the top Pangea coax — Jay Victor says the XL includes all the features of the SE and takes performance up a level with the Prime 750 plug, so it is the end of the Pangea line
• Your CD player or streamer has a coaxial output — the Prime 750 RCA plugs fit the orange coax socket on most sources and DACs, so no adapter is needed
• You want low mass at the contact — the hollow tellurium copper pin and spring contacts carry less metal, which Pangea says avoids eddy currents in a heavy contact
• You play high-resolution files — Pangea rates the cable to 32-bit, 384 kilohertz, so it covers anything a coaxial link carries
• Your gear has BNC or AES/EBU sockets — an RCA plug will not fit them. Call us and we will match the plug

How Does It Connect to Your System?

Plug one end into the coaxial digital output of your CD player, transport or streamer and the other into the coaxial digital input of your DAC or receiver. Then choose that input on the DAC and let it lock to the signal.

Then listen. Other and longer lengths available. Call for prices.

Pairs Well With

A digital cable is one link in a digital chain. It usually joins these categories.

• Digital-to-Analog Converters — the receiving end of the link
• CD Players and Transports — the classic coaxial source
• Music Streamers — a streamer with a digital output
• Power Cables — clean power at both ends

Frequently Asked Questions

Why plate copper with silver?

Pangea's designer Jay Victor says silver plating is crucial to digital audio cable performance and that he uses it in all his digital designs. On this cable the plating is 6% pure silver over Cardas Grade One Copper.

What does quad-layered shielding mean?

Pangea lists three shield types, one doubled: a double-sided aluminum and mylar foil, a 1.25% silver-plated braid and a carbon-impregnated polyethylene layer. Jay Victor says the combination beats any two- or three-layer shield he tried.

Why is the Prime 750 hollow?

Pangea says the ultra-low-mass design takes best advantage of exotic metals while avoiding eddy currents that heavier contacts cause. A polymer insulator replaces a metal ring to cut the metal further.

Is there a step up?

Cardas Clear Digital is the next rung we recommend. It moves to Cardas's own Matched Propagation Litz conductors in a 75-ohm coaxial geometry, hand terminated in Bandon, Oregon.

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