Interconnect cables upgrade hi-fi performance

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jan 8, 2007

The design and construction of the Anthem 2 cable allows it to accurately transfer the subtle microdynamic signals that give all the clues about musical performance.

The Chord Anthem 2 interconnect is now available and can be supplied fitted with RCA, DIN and XLR plugs.

The Anthem 2 cables are a complete departure from the complex cable geometry and woven configuration of the original Anthem.

Although appearing to be a far simpler design, performance is enhanced by the introduction of an advanced multilayer shielding system.

The central conductor core is a multistranded silver-plated design.

It is surrounded by low density Teflon insulation and a trilayer silver-plated flat ribbon weave shielding system, similar to that used on the Chord Indigo.

The design and construction of the cable allows it to accurately transfer the subtle microdynamic signals that give all the clues about musical performance.

The noise floor is significantly reduced and, after a relatively lengthy burn-in time, tonal bandwidth is both wide and neutral.

The shielding system ensures a remarkably consistent performance from system to system.

Chord's research and extensive listening tests make it convinced that this is not just a cable for high end systems.

Connecting a relatively inexpensive system with an Anthem 2 can produce genuinely surprising results.

The original Chord Company Anthem was the first interconnect in the Chord product range to use a high frequency shielding system.

The success of this shielding system prompted further research into high frequency shielding methods.

The result of this research enabled the design of the award winning Signature and Indigo series of interconnects and now Anthem 2.

Chord does not design its cables in isolation.

There is a synergy between Anthem 2 interconnects and Epic speaker cable.

Both cables make use of advanced shielding systems and although introducing either cable to a hi-fi system will produce outstanding results, putting the two together produces a sum that is greater than the parts.