Tchernov Cables

The Design of TCHERNOVAUDIO CABLES are based on three basic principles:

• Using the highest quality raw materials for all elements of the cable design.
• Designed and calibrated design - Aimed at solving specific problems.
• Thorough quality control - Before the finished product will get to your hands.

A) Philosophy authentic sound

The aim of Tchernov audio cables is to transfer all the wealth and beauty of the symphony of colors and sounds, its nuances and contrasts – while excluding any form of distortion - to the listener. Tchernov has defined the following goals, called factors of authenticity.

Factors of authenticity

1) Naturalness and fullness of timbre
Each musical instrument is characterized by its own unique timbre of sound, the characteristics of materials, the craftsman tools and of course, the skills of performers. It is essential to convey the true nature of sound, whether it is a charming Stradivari violin, the magical voice of Maria Callas, the greatest jazz trumpet genius Louis Armstrong or the legendary guitarist Eric Clapton. We strive to reproduce all the elegance and drama of the composition, to convey that personality and subtle nuances of the performance of these great musicians, past and present - with utmost accuracy.

2) Correct tonal balance
The correct ratio of low, medium and high frequencies determines the balance and characteristics of a loudspeaker. This is what allows you to immerse yourself in the music without feeling that "something is missing". Rich, ripe bass, natural midrange that is well-detailed and unobtrusive sound.

3) Correct spatio-temporal experience
Tchernov invested in this concept and not just the sound field. Through numerous experiments made to commensurate with the nature of sound and instruments in the recreation of the sonic picture - the correct relative position and consistency of musical images in space. The result is incredibly realistic and wide sound stage, as if the listener was present at the live performance.

The rich experience of research and testing of cables in systems of different levels has helped Tchernov develops a specific approach to understanding the process of transferring audio/video signal and analyzing its authenticity.

B) Original material

Tchernoc Cables uses the best materials with unique technical ideas. Each material is applied only where it is technologically justified.

1) BRC - Balanced Refinement Conductor
Conductor with specially balanced treatment
Balanced-purified conductor (BRC) is made of copper with special treatment, having a strictly defined number of associated mineral elements. This copper is taken from the special deposits and monitored throughout the entire process of cleaning up the production of wire. Due to its composition, this guide provides the best transmission of audio and video signal.

2) SAF PE - Stabilized Air-Foamed PE
Stabilized air-porous polyethylene
Dielectrics of our cables are designed by Russian specialists who have been certified and approved by the Research Institute of Cable Industry for usage in the manufacture of cable products.

3) CAF PE - Combined Air-Foamed PE
Combined (laminated), air-porous polyethylene
This material is especially important when dealing with the protection of conductors from vibrations that have a major impact on the quality and authenticity of sound.

4) PELD - Low Density Polyethylene
Low Density Polyethylene (High pressure)
It has useful features such as high tensile strength and compression, water resistance and chemical resistance.

5) Teflon polytetrafluoroethylene
PTFE (Teflon)
In the upper cable model line CUPRUM, such as Classic and Reference, used tapes of porous and solid Teflon. The advantages of this material - high temperature resistance, excellent electrical insulating characteristics and mechanical strength, extremely low moisture absorption, very low polarization. Using insulation tape of porous PTFE without additional sintering and thermal impact, effect of cold stress is reduced and the tapes stick together in the process of winding.

6) 100% Cotton braids
Bundles of non-dyed 100% cotton
Cotton braids, twisted together with the isolated conductive strands, protect the wires from vibration and acoustic noise and ensure the correct cable circular shape in cross section.

7) Kevlar
A fiber material on the basis of polyamides
A braid of Kevlar fibers used as a damping layer under a shell and serves as a bandage for a screen of copper tape.

8) Tinsel thread
Tinsel thread consists of a base (variety lavsan), on which the winding is wound in the form of flattening copper wire (compressed tape). A braid of tinsel thread is used as an additional screen, creating a damping layer under screen and, simultaneously, act as a screen of copper tape.

9) SPVC - Soft Polyvinyl Chloride
Soft PVC plasticized
The use of plastic in the manufacture of the insulation provides sufficient flexibility of cable construction and the additional reduction in vibration load. In bi-layered membranes of the inner layer is made of non-dyed SPVC to minimize the impact on signal transmission.

10) Elastollan ®
Thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer

Along with excellent dielectric parameters, the material has unique properties that best meet the unique requirements of operation in the home and car audio systems:

• High durability and abrasion resistance
• High tensile strength
• Excellent damping capacity
• Very good frost resistance and resistance to thermal shocks
• High resistance to oils, greases, acids and ozone.

Organic Concentrates - special recipe for dyeing dielectrics
The peculiarity of organic dyes in that they, unlike inorganic, do not affect adversely the physical and mechanical and electrical characteristics of the original cable arrangement.

11)Anti-static additives
Insulation
These additives are used in all mass-produced products TCHERNOV AUDIO CABLE regardless of price range and can significantly reduce noise and running-in time ("Warm") cables.

C) Cable Architecture

Music accompanies people throughout the history of mankind. Having learned to capture the harmony, the person knowingly committed music from an inexhaustible palette of sounds of nature as objective reality. The next step was the expression of emotions and visual images in harmony with the musical instruments. Finally, man has learned to maintain and reproduce the live music.

Modern technology in the field of audio aimed at improving all levels of audio accuracy, because the sound quality, ultimately, is determined by not only accuracy of the audio components, but also the quality of the connecting cables. When selecting components (including cables) must be remembered that the quality of any of them should match the level, as a result, the system will sound as good as its weakest link, even if the rest is perfect.

1) Theory vs Practice

Until recently, existed a belief that it is impossible to detect distortion of sound emanating from cables, nor the ear, nor even the most modern appliances. Classical physics justifies this approach is rigid framework model of an ideal conductor. In this case, operate mostly formal electrical data - resistance, capacitance and inductance of cables.

However, the mechanism of perception of sounds are remarkably sensitive instruments, and audio systems using the very assumption of an ideal conductor - straight wire with gain - is very far from reality. Cable, as a single structure, is no longer simply a conductor but a complex system, which should be regarded equally as important a component as any in an audio system.

The correct approach to understanding the processes occurring in the audio, requires consideration of both physical and psychological, biological, and many other laws. To understand all the factors of the audio, you need to take into account the specific area of its application.

2) The Conductor Sound

The best natural material for the transmission of audio signals is copper. The guide on quality - the level of impurity of the conductor is the usual consideration. But our numerous experiments proved that the balance of a certain number of accompanying elements might offer a better impact on the transmission of sound than their complete absence. This phenomenon characterizes the fundamental law of diversity in nature.

Through painstaking research, Tchernov managed to find the best balance of copper and impurities - BRC (Balanced Refinement Conductor) - allows the cable designer to best meet the requirements of accurate transmission of sound.

In addition, the impact of the skin effect in a conductor must not be under estimated - for the high, low and medium frequencies the resistance of a conductor differs. As a consequence, improperly designed audio cable, the sound quality suffers, losing detail and dynamics. To combat this effect, Tchernov uses multi stranded copper conductor in a complicated twist.

By analogy with the acoustic effect of reverberation, the signal in the cable is divided into a set of components, which are distributed by the cable at different speeds. Conventional cables are not able to compensate, because the amplitude of the secondary signals by orders of magnitude below the ground, and their delay is millionths of a second. However, the human brain detects the difference in arrival time of sound through the high sensitivity of hearing to the time and phase distortions of the signal. Detection threshold is 10 microseconds! Because of this, people can easily oriented in the sound space and distinguish between the correct sound and distorted sound.

3) Physics and lyrics

Projecting the cable design, we proceed from actual conditions of its subsequent operation.

It is known that many processes in nature contribute to the effect of vibration. A striking example here is cables. Under the influence of external and internal sources of vibration of a so-called "microphone effect" causes static build-up on the physical properties of materials. Additional vibration load creates acoustic noise - random sound vibrations. The vibrations cause disturbances in the transmission signal, the deterioration of contact connections, interference from the interaction with the insulation material, changes in cable capacitance with the frequency of vibration and its multiple frequencies - harmonics.

To combat vibrations we use insulating materials with higher damping properties: Elastollan ®, SAF PE, CAF PE, SPVC, Teflon, cotton and others. In additional the reduction of microphone effect is achieved through the use of antistatic additives that prevent the accumulation of static charge in the cable insulation.

Particular attention is paid to the electromagnetic noise immunity. The design of the screens and the cable stranding with individually isolated conductors provides reliable protection from distortion from noise in electronics.

These technical solutions determines the qualitative audible difference between other cable and TCHERNOVAUDIO CABLES, you can easily hear for yourself ...

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