Matthew Bond, designer and creator of TARA Labs, the business that started in Australia and the cables that took the world by storm. Matthew Bond now designs for Matthew Bond Audio in Oregon USA and is joined by Brad Serhan and Andrew Hutchison going deep into the intricacies of design, engineering and manufacture of high quality cables.
“Wire coated with Teflon as thin as one layer of human skin…” .
“Interconnects are still hand made -a pair of Teflon tubes, then conductors get inserted into the Teflon tubes, then a mesh constrains the twisted pair of tubes, then around that is a spiral cut tube, then around that is more mesh…”
“…rectangular conductors were fine tuned from the original 1mm round conductor for greater high frequency extension… so a rectangular conductor just wins..”
What works in cable manufacture, what doesn’t and why.
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People mentioned on this episode –
Matthew Bond – Matthew Bond Audio
Brad Serhan – Orpheus & Serhan Swift
Andrew Hutchison – Dellichord Loudspeakers, Stereotech Audio furniture, HiFi and Stereo Audio Repairs
Brands mentioned on this episode –
Straight Wire Cables
Businesses mentioned on this episode –
Music by Design – Sydney
Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
Music courtesy of –
Please Listen Carefully by Jahzzar http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar
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CREDITS –
Guest management, regular co-hosting – Brad Serhan
Host, audio production – Andrew Hutchison