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Benefitting from learnings upon the development of Synergistic Research's flagship SRX XL cable line, the new Foundation XL USB cables deliver notably improved performance above the Foundation SX series and continue to be offered at attractive price points. While the line as a whole can be thought of as an evolution from the Foundation SX, the cable has been rethought holistically, applying the same improvements we’ve made to the flagship SRX XL cable series.
For each cable type, Synergistic doubled the 6N pure silver Air Strings to portray music with more immediacy and resolution, improving upon dynamics and transient response in a completely non-fatiguing way. The same SRX XL UEF compound as described above is applied to improve shielding. And finally, the cables are run through the same SRX XL High Voltage Conditioning treatment that is used for Synergistic's flagship SRX XL cables.
With Foundation XL, you’ll notice an improved dynamics and a more natural timbre, all with a reduction in noise floor to keep details of the music smoother and more realistic than its predecessor.
SRX XL Matrix Shielding
In the journey to design the latest flagship SRX XL series, Synergistic developed an entirely new UEF compound to elevate the performance of the previous Matrix Shielding, which further lowers each cable's noise floor while lessening restraints a shield may have on signal transmission. The highest level of SRX XL Matrix Shielding is applied to the Foundation XL cables for a significant jump in performance over the previous generation Foundation SX. Carbon Fiber UEF Tuning Discs developed for the Foundation SX and Foundation XL series cables further refines and enhances the loom's ability to cancel noise that would otherwise cause high frequencies to sound harsh or fatiguing.
6N Pure Silver Airstrings, Multiplied
While voicing the Foundation XL, Synergistic Research found that doubling the 99.9995% Pure Silver Airstrings resulted in a cables that are faster and more resolving, adding texture and body while improving dynamics and transient response without adding fatigue.
SRX XL High Voltage Conditioning
The new SRX XL High Voltage Conditioning is Synergistic's most advanced process for treating cables with 1,000,000 volts of electricity at specific frequencies and pulse modulations for long durations, creating a canal in the conductor material and contact points at the molecular level that allows electrons to flow more freely. This new process improves upon the SRX High Voltage Conditioning process by employing new extended duration sweeping frequency plots and advancements to SR's Tesla Coil, resulting in SRX XL cables to sound even more open and accurate than the cables before them. For Foundation XL, Synergistic utilizes this exact conditioning process, which was found to contribute to the large performance improvement in this series, bringing the voicing of the Foundation XL closer to that of the SRX XL.
- 4 each Copper Matrix conductors
- 23 gauge solid copper conductors
- Dielectric: Solid Polyethylene
- Shielding: Dual Silver Mylar / Braid shield-Quantum Tunneled Ground Plane Technology
- Listened for signal direction before build
- SRX Matrix Shielding: UEF coating with Graphene is applied directly to connectors significantly reducing the noise floor and allowing a purer signal to transfer with less grain providing more warmth and detail
- SRX Quantum Tunneling: After the cable is completely assembled all connections and cabling are treated with 1,000,000 volts of electricity at specific frequencies and pulse modulations, creating a canal in the conductor material and contact points at the molecular level that allows electrons to flow more freely. This allows the maximum amount of low level information through the conductors and provides for the highest amount of realism in your music
- Secondary UEF Blue Treatment originally developed for SR Blue Fuses
- Hand build time: 1 hour
- 5 day Burn-in: 2 step process
- Hand crafted in Synergistic Research's California factory
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