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Tributaries today announced the Series 8 Power Cable designed by high-end cable designer Jay Victor. The AC cable is made with 12-gauge Linear Crystal Copper (LC-OFC) “cast in a controlled environment to deliver a lower crystal count per foot,” which is said to reduce signal loss and distortion

Victor’s design focuses on three areas of concern: low frequency signals, current carrying capacity, and noise reduction. Mindful that AC from a wall outlet operates at 60 Hz, the Series 8 cable is made with “insulated solid conductors of sufficient size to favor low frequencies.”

To address current carrying capacity, the cable uses a combination of large and medium gauge wires to form an overall 12 AWG design said to support current flow and signal dynamics. Noting that power amps tend to draw current in pulses, Tributaries said wire gauges must be sufficient to avoid starving the amplifier of required current. The press release offers this explanation:

Depending on the output of the power amplifier, too small a gauge of the power cable will result in excess resistance that may restrict the peak level of a required pulse which will then limit the transient response of the amplifier…The mistake that many power cable designers make is they either use large amounts of stranded conductors to achieve gauge and flexibility or only large gauge conductors. The use of only small gauge stranded conductors will limit the low frequency capabilities of the cable. If only large conductors are used the cable tends to lose dynamics and also will not respond quickly to transients; a combination of conductor sizes is needed.

To achieve maximum noise reduction, Victor used alternating lays in cable twisting to “cancel out magnetic fields and eliminate distortion.” Magnetic fields are created when insulated conductors are twisted in a bundle, according to Tributaries. The cable is also shielded from RF and EMI noise to lower the noise floor.

Prices for 3-, 6- and 9-foot lengths are $160, $250, and $340, respectively.

"For power cables, noise rejection is critical and our Series 8 power cables rely on propriety winding techniques and triple shielding to limit EMI egress and ingress thus ensuring the lowest noise floor for sensitive source components", said Joe Perfito, company president.

Visit tributariescable.com for more information.