Description
The TUBULUS Ximius Digital Interconnect is our flagship digital interconnect and is based on high quality pure silver conductors. These are solid core conductors to prevent strand interaction, which is a major source of distortion.
The many silver conductors are individually insulated by air. We use air insulation because (next to a vacuum) air is the best dielectric. This air insulation is made possible by our tube construction, which can only be made by hand. The conductors are each individually insulated with air in small tubes which are then twisted together in groups of three. These trinity groups are then positioned in a star septet configuration to maximize noise rejection. This Trinity Star construction can´t be found in any other cable and is therefore unique!
The Tubulus Ximius Digital Interconnect consists of various diameter conductors because every diameter has its own musical character. With a special thermo-process the silver conductors are restructured at a molecular level to reach a quality close to mono crystal silver.
The TUBULUS Ximius Digital Interconnect is also equipped with 4 layers of very effective shielding to prevent electrical noise entering into the cable. This shielding has a 100% coverage.
To prevent radio frequency interference (RFI) from modulating the ground reference, skin effect filtering is applied to the shield. This is a very effective way to eliminate noise and RFI before it reaches the component.
The TUBULUS Ximius Digital Interconnect cables is available with high quality RCA plugs (S/PDIF) or XLR plugs (AES/EBU), which are soldered with silver containing solder.
TUBULUS cables are hand crafted with love, expertise and devotion with no excess decoration or luxury packaging and therefore true value for your money!
For custom cables feel free to contact us. [email protected]
WHY BUY A TUBULUS DIGITAL INTERCONNECT CABLE?
A high end digital interconnect cable may sound like nonsense. After all it’s just 1’s and 0’s it has to transport. Any cable can do that. But those 1’s and 0’s have to be transported by a bunch of electrons traveling through a wire and electrons don’t know if they are ‘analog’ or ‘digital’. In fact, all electrical signals are analogue.
However, the digital signal is different; it is a pulse train, a square wave instead of a sine. But a perfect square wave doesn’t exist, because transition from one to zero requires time. So there is always a rise/fall time and the edges of the square wave will be rounded. In fact the square wave is a kind of trapezium with rounded edges.
Depending on the quality of the cable, the corners of the square wave will round off to a greater or lesser degree and the “flat” portions of the wave will become uneven as well. Small changes will make it harder for the receiver to detect the exact moment the rise or fall is happening. This will induce jitter. And if the changes become too big, the receiver will not even be able to reconstruct the logical 1’s and 0’s properly.
This is why a high quality digital interconnect cable like the TUBULUS Ximius can make great improvements in sound quality.
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