Taralabs cables

Hi Bvdiman, I have posted many,many user comment's on this thread, if you back read what's been posted here since november 2014, a few Evolution model line user comment's, you do know their is different model Evolution cable's?, and as far as Audiocrack is concerned, he did not like being corrected when it came to what a HFX ground station or duel mono-block HFX ground station will do, and can do, I gave evidence concering this matter on this thread as well, also, all information on this entire thread is as accurate as can be period, all info is sent to me by request from Tara Lab's, and other info is pulled directly from their web-site.

@Grey9hound. Thanks for going through all that trouble! That was very interesting info!

Audiolab your answer to "What is Consonant alloy?" was
"consonant alloy is pure SA-OF8N 99.999999% copper (super-annealed, oxygen-free, eight nines pure copper, it is not an alloy at all, "
That is NOt correct .
That is why i gave him the correct info :)

Grey9hound, like I said, Tara lab's has NOT made consonant alloy since 1995, I said this a couple of post ago, what the Tara lab's cable's are now for the last 20 years is NO consonant alloy at all.

For some (perhaps) useful info about copper purity, read on.

From a 6 Moons interview with Caelin Gabriel of Shunyata Research...

http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/caelin/caelin_2.html

An excerpt from the interview is pasted below.

"The wire used in all of our products, even the least expensive, is designed and produced to our specifications. You won't find Mil-Spec or cable warehouse wire used in our products. People who claim six or eight nines purity? Let's just say that you cannot obtain certification papers for this type of purity. Anywhere. It doesn't exist - except in our audiophile world. Copper is specified by CDA numbers which are the technical grades of the raw metal. The top-quality copper with certification papers is CDA-101. It has a specification of 99.997% purity. There are lesser grades such as CDA-102, 103 or 112- but you won't get certification papers. There's ETP copper which is a standard grade. There's mil-spec copper commonly used in hookup wire. CDA-101 wire can't be bought off the shelf. You have to make it yourself from the raw copper ingots.

So, as I said previously - we do exhaustive testing of all materials including wire purity. Wire purity does make a difference - to a point. Where the copper is mined is often more important than the absolute purity, just as purveyors of semi- or precious stones will have preferences for certain mines due to the types of impurities or inclusions that occur in various geographical locations. Naturally, we guard some of the more important findings and conclusions as our intellectual property. What I can say? Take drinking water. You obviously don't want lead or other toxic heavy metals. But how about calcium, iron or certain trace elements? Impurities aren't all the same by a long shot. Some in fact may be desirable. Think of steel metallurgy where the deliberate inclusion of minute amounts of foreign substances radically alters the materials properties of the raw metal.

Purity is very important as it relates to corrosion. Since electrons travel primarily on the surface of the conductor, copper oxide molecules become a significant impediment to current flow. That makes outrageous claims of 1ppm purity (1 part-per-million) inside the conductor utterly irrelevant."

A concise and well-referenced primer on copper and copper wire in Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_wire_and_cable#cite_note-PH08-3