Cotton insulation and gold wire are kind of unusual for a Hi-Fi cable aren they?
A. Yes, they are. We started experimenting with silver wire almost twenty years ago, and its sonic superiority over even the best copper was readily apparent. Then a decade ago, we began experimenting with various gold alloys, platinum, palladium etc., etc., and found pure gold to be sonically superior. The use of cotton as an electrical insulator goes back to the earliest days of electricity and cotton has been used in all sorts of electrical applications such as knob and tube home wiring and as hook-up wire in early radios. We began using cotton, with pure silver or gold wire, about 2 years ago because of its natural damping qualities, its super-low dielectric constant and because it sounds so great.
