Capacitance testing on our new audiophile cables

We are always tweaking and testing our designs. Our latest Litz ultra low capacitance cables have several advantages over our SPC cables. They have even lower capacitance and inductance and eliminate skin effect from the audio spectrum. To do this we started with 84 strand litz copper, it is made up of extremely fine strands of copper which are individually insulated to keep them separate and gives them a very small cross-sectional area. This takes the skin effect way outside the audio spectrum so it keeps the sound neutral. Our original ultra low capacitance cables had around 30pF which was pretty impressive but our new cable now has such a low capacitance it is not measurable on our equipment. A lot of that is due to the litz wire being wrapped in silk rather than using a traditional dielectric coating – it makes it trickier to build but gives better results. The lower capacitance ensures all the frequencies arrive at the same time making it sound more realistic with better timing and impact. The cable also has lower inductance ensuring less crosstalk, better stereo imaging and soundstage. We also do a balanced version which further improves things when used with a balanced headphone amp
Here is a pic … As you can see a stock HD650 cable shows roughly 612pF of capacitance and our cable is below 0.01pF