The Science of making a component Disappear
The best type of silver is more
All of our conductors are made of 99.99% pure silver forged as densely as possible. We also use as much silver as we can fit into a connector, and when no connector on the market can house the amount of silver we want to use, we make our own. This doesn’t make a good cable in and of itself, but at a baseline making a cable disappear requires high conductor integrity, as well as a much larger total conductor diameter than is standard, since the standard was set primarily by people who were trying to save money.
Break-in is a design flaw
Break-in is an acoustic phenomenon caused by distortions that result almost entirely from strand-strand and strand-dielectric interaction. Almost every cable on the planet is made from stranded copper that is shrink wrapped, enameled, or both. This makes cables flexible and inexpensive to produce. It also makes them distort the signals that pass through them. Break-in is the reduction in this distortion over time as the passage of current through the cable carves out the most electromagnetically efficient channel possible. But break-in will never allow a cable to achieve parity with a cable that requires no break-in.
All of our cables are made of strands of silver that are placed by hand into oversized teflon sleeves, eliminating break-in entirely. In our opinion, anything short of this would be unacceptable.
Stopping silver from being a low-pass filter
If you run a sharp transient through a strand of silver, or through any conductor, and measure the other end with an oscilloscope, you will see that the output doesn’t match the input. The output fluctuates violently, steadies, and then slowly rises to meet the input. Through a proprietary treatment process, we have gotten a single 20 gauge strand of our conductor silver to reproduce the full amplitude of a 250,000hz square wave at 50 watts, so the most intense transients at audible frequencies produce no noticeable distortion. The results is full intensity and clarity of highs that, well, shimmer.