Friday, May 10, 2024
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Pear Cable offer mad-end wires

If you feel bell wire is just great for speakers read no further. While some will argue that a wire is a wire, there are always those who feel that they can tell the quality of sound that has gone through posh wires, be they for signals or the voltages of speaker wires. In the home audio market there are many makers of some very expensive wires. Seen at the recent SEMA show in Las Vegas, Talk Audio reports seeing some very high end cables indeed, being exhibited to the high end audio persons there. Called ‘Pear’ and with products named after varieties of the fruit (in one case an American one we have never had here) they sell some incredible home hifi cables and now offer similar levels of kit for car use.
For example, their Anjou line sells a 4ft speaker cable pair with WBT plugs on for $3,250, (£1,625) which is plenty even in Yank money. Their 1m RCA interconnect will set you back $1,600 (£800) and has a conductor of solid gold. Driven by science, boss Adam Blake told me their wires are designed according to engineering principles and listening tests.
For cars they offer Comice and Bosc varieties. A 1m solid silver Comice RCA will cost $198, (£99) a 5m $598 (£399). The Bosc copper cored wires will set you back $119 (£60) for a 1m RCA and $279 (£140) for a 5m.
They clain low capacitance and inductance too, which is a very difficult ratio to achive we gather. Could this be a cult product in the high end making? Pictured here with a fabulously complex mass of ptfe, solid silver and various other dielectrics, all of which means one 1m pair of speaker wires of deeply secret internal geometry. See www.pearcable.com