Zavfino OCC SILVER DART 1.5 power cable

Talk about trolls.  The real ugly ones came out in the responses!

Let Jason Bourne speak his spiel every time the subject comes up. We all know what he is going to say about cables.  He’s harmless.  Let us all chip in and buy him a set of lamp cords for Christmas.

+1 @lalitk & @carlsbad’s 1st post. I’d like to suggest um ... nah, never mind. Enjoy the hunt :-)

Let me help @jasonbourne52 out.  He is correct, but he doesn't know why.

Excerpt from Novo Hifi excerpt:

An electrical anomaly known as the “skin effect” occurs when electrons move through any solid core wire. Higher frequencies travel along the outside (the skin) of the conductor faster than midrange and lower echelon frequencies. This results in hazy PRaT, muddled instrumental timbres, and an unnatural sound.

This is a power cord for goodness sake.  It just carries juice.  Power supplied to your home does not have multiple frequencies.  It has one single frequency - 50Hz here in the UK; 60Hz in the US, So the reference in the review to multiple frequencies is hogwash, (perhaps written by a crazy PRaT).  Why are so many people so naive as to believe this tosh?  As long as the wire layout is big enough to carry the required amps its construction is irrelevant to the sound of components that use that power. 

Period.

@ortodox - Zavfino is one of the better cable makers. I have studied their cable fabrication methods and to me their science is valid.

They are one of the few cables I would recommend because of the approach and ,materials they use.

The science behind cable design can get very complex and does impact perofrmance e.g.

• wire metals - i.e. copper vs. UP-OCC copper vs. silver
• wire types - stranded vs. solid and which gauge to use
• dielectric values of the various insulations
• varoius cable geometries
• connectors

Zavfino seems to have a very good grasp of all of the above and come up with some great designs that will actually work very well, incorporating

• very low noise
• fast dynamic response
• excellent seperation
• natural sounding (no colouring of the sound)
• expansive imaging

The cables you mentioned is one of theri best, so you really can’t go wrong

Are there better cables out there? - YES - but they will cost a lot more and their improvements over your cables would be marginal !

Hope that helps - Steve