Lava Cable is an authorized manufacturer for Cardas Audio for the Golden Chord Musician's Cable and the Crosslink Speaker cable. This cable is made in the USA and terminated by Lava Cable.. Cardas’ cable design incorporates patented, Golden Ratio, Constant Q, Cross-Field, pure copper Litz, conductor technology and golden section stranding.

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In Golden Section Stranding, individual strands are arranged so each strand is coupled to another, whose note or beat is irrational with its own, thus nulling interstrand resonance. This is the famous "Silent Conductor". It is the silence of Cardas conductors that allows them to be so uniquely musical and pure.

At the heart of cable oscillation is inductively stored energy. This energy results from the lowered internal "Q", or resonant point, of conventional conductors. George Cardas has a second U.S. patent, number 4,980,517, describing a unique stranding method where strands diminish in size towards the interior of the conductor. This design is called Constant Q Stranding and it allows each strand of the cable to share the load equally. It is a very effective method of reducing the internal rise in inductance seen in ordinary conductors, without compromising the symmetry of the conductor or the capacitance of the cable.

Ordinary Cables are di-pole antennas, both radiating and absorbing RFI/EMI, which sustains system resonance. George’s cable design incorporates Crossfield Construction in its manufacture, which reverses every other stranding layer to defuse the di-pole effect. Every detail in Cardas cables is at the leading edge. Pure Teflon® is used as a stabilizing wrap to firmly bind the conductors, while thin wall tubes provide an air dielectric to isolate the conductors from each other. Cardas Audio Golden Chord Data Sheet Crosslink Speaker Data Sheet

The Golden Chord Musician's Cable placed third with a score of 87.5 out of 100 in Eric Kirkland's "Cable Summit" for Vintage Guitar Magazine, May 2003 Here's what he said:

"George Cardas, devotee of the famous Litz stranding technique and the finest materials, is well known for creating some of the world’s top-performing audio cables. The Golden Chord instrument cable follows in that tradition, delivering gorgeous tone and high resolution. As well, the feel is fantastic, with notes having just the right amount of give."