Ein Bischen Bonkers Von Munchen. (A Bit Of Craziness From Munich) ATLAS CABLES AT THE HIGH END SHOW
Now, we know that the Munich High End hifi show is on..and that it has the maddest and most indulgent products imaginable. Yet we do tend to marvel a little at the top end stuff with a bit of desire to know what that feels like to own.. I have had a couple of press releases about some truly absurd-end products. One is a set of mains cables, the other a new product and a service to cover your speaker cables, which are NOT to be hidden away by any means, in Nappa leather, with a choice of visible seam-stitching at £225 per meter extra! You can even copy your Ferrari seat stitching and leather as a bespoke effort if you wish. The last are speaker wires of solid silver and go up to £17,800. Anyway, read on and marvel at these things. I know they always spark some debate!
First, the pretty ones…. for speakers.
Atlas Cables introduces Luxe – Cables that look as good as they sound
May 2018 – Kilmarnock – Atlas Cables, the engineering-led cable specialist, has introduced Luxe – its new luxury finishing concept introduced with the launch of its flagship cable – the Asimi Luxe speaker cable. Referring to the luxurious Nappa leather covering that is hand-stitched the length of the cable, Luxe allows customers to choose from a range of colour and stitching options, offering them a unique feel and lavish finish for their cables. Available as standard on the new flagship Asimi Luxe speaker cable and all Asimi interconnect products the Luxe finish is also available as an upgrade on many other Atlas cables, offering Atlas owners the chance to upgrade their existing cables to this sumptuous option.
The Luxe upgrade is available in four standard Nappa leather finishes; Ebony, Brogue, Ivory and Daytona Red. Completing the finish is two stitch options – Cross stitch and Baseball stitch. A fully bespoke service is also available, so were a customer keen to match the leather in their favourite Ferrari, Atlas could manufacture a one off.
Atlas Luxe finishing is supplied as standard on the following cables;
Asimi Grun – speaker cables
Asimi Ultra – interconnect cables
Asimi XLR – interconnect cables
Atlas Luxe is offered as an option on the following cables;
Mavros Grun – speaker cable
Mavros Ultra – interconnect cables
Mavros XLR – interconnect cables
Ascent Grun – speaker cable
Ascent Ultra – interconnect cables
Ascent XLR – interconnect cables
Eos superior – power cables
Luxe standard upgrade is priced at £225per meter (UK retail)
Bespoke finishes have a fixed one off set up charge of £550, with a variable charge starting at £225 per meter depending on the cable.
Loudspeaker cable is often the unsightly connection with any High end system. Atlas has taken this problem and engineered a delightful finish to its products that could well enhance or complement the consumers interior design. High End speaker cables are difficult to hide so why not be proud of them, and even celebrate them, with the Luxe finish?
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NOW, meet the EOS Superior, a mains cable that can cost as much as a second-hand Jaguar! I do think that a better wire from the suppliers’ meter box as a special spur for the hifi alone, would be wise at this cost level, mind you…. what follows is their Munich Show release:
Atlas Cables unveil the EOS Superior, a mains cable designed to set new standards in audiophile power management.
May 2018 – Kilmarnock – Atlas Cables, the engineering-driven cable specialist, has launched its latest range of high-performance screened mains power cables – the Eos Superior utilises similar technology that was researched and implemented into the company’s range-topping Asimi Ultra and Mavros Ultra audio interconnects and carries on from the award winning EOS 4dd.
Available now, the Atlas Cables Eos Superior power cable range is available, starting at £1,050 for a 1 meter IEC/13A plug length.
The very best power cables are built around low series resistance, safe and stable dielectrics and high tech screening, the Eos superior excels in all these areas. Utilising Ultra pure OCC (Ohno Continuous Cast) copper conductors, high efficiency stable dielectrics as well as a new multi-layer screening process the new Eos superior delivers exceptional fidelity as well as superior protection against the threat of RF radiation.
The Eos Superior screen acts as a critical filter against harmful incoming RF A.C. power contamination, it dumps these airborne and electromagnetic disturbance effects rapidly to earth via the Atlas dual drain system employed in the latest generation Atlas cables.
Key Features
- High current capacity 4mm2 OCC conductors
- Highly stabilised dielectrics
- Multilayer Cu Mylar and woven screen
- Atlas dual drain Rf termination
- All mechanical terminations damped
- Airtight terminations
- Atlas Silver plated plugs
- 13A, Nema, Shuko, 10A & 16A variants available
Kevin Kelly (Managing Director) had this to say: “Power management and distribution devices are growing more in popularity principally due to the increase in RF pollution that floods our homes and daily life. We have been designing power products for many years and this latest improvement comes from continuous product development in our signal cables. We have made huge steps forward by improving the conductors with OCC copper while utilising a far more advanced dielectric alongside the inclusion of our Dual Drain technology. The EOS Superior is the culmination of years of research and development.”
All versions of the Atlas Eos 4 Superior are available now:
Eos 4, 1.0m, 13A/Schuko/Nema/IEC C14 female – rsp £1,050.00 inc vat
Eos 4, 1.5m, 13A/Schuko/Nema/IEC C14 female – rsp £1,130.00 inc vat
Eos 4, 2.0m, 13A/Schuko/Nema/IEC C14 female – rsp £1,210.00 inc vat
Eos 4, 3.0m, 13A/Schuko/Nema/IEC C14 female – rsp £1,370.00 inc vat
However, both those lines of product fade into the background, price wise, when we consider the several strands of solid silver inside each of these sets of wires, that can go up to nearly £18,000 a set. For speaker cables….
Atlas Cables introduces its new flagship speaker cable – Asimi Luxe with Grun
May 2018 – Kilmarnock – Atlas Cables, the engineering-led cable specialist, has introduced the latest development to its range-topping Asimi speaker cable. The Asimi Luxe has been designed by Atlas to surpass the performance of all previous products and utilises the company’s Grun grounding solution, whilst the addition of Luxe finishing delivers a finish that has the visual appeal that makes it look as good as it sounds. Asimi Luxe utilises the purest conductor available to any audio company worldwide – OCC solid silver – and is finished in hand-stitched Nappa leather.
Atlas set out to design a cable that provides the listener with musicality, accuracy and the most open natural sound quality possible. That coupled with a unique/bespoke finishing solution precisely matched to their customers’ needs, means that Atlas has produced a truly luxurious product that sits at the very apogee of what can be accomplished with today’s technology.
Conductor:
The Asimi Luxe utilises the purest conductor available to any audio company worldwide – OCC solid silver. Asimi Luxe is made up of six separate OCC (Ohno Continuous Casting) solid silver conductors, shrouded by the most complex dielectric material that Atlas has produced to date.
Dielectric:
The Asimi Luxe uses a helical cotton spiral (dielectric constant 1.3 – 1.4) to create an air (dielectric constant 1.000589) spaced void near the cable surface. The cable geometry is stabilised by a tensioned controlled layer of microporous PTFE (dielectric constant 1.7). This transition controlled graduated dielectric delivers near perfect electrical properties.
Plug quality:
The solder-free Asimi Luxe is terminated with Atlas Transpose deep silver-plated plugs, which allows easy switching between expanding 4mm connectors, spade and Z-plugs, giving the consumer total choice and flexibility in the future.
Screening – the Dual Drain and Grun Effect:
The Asimi Luxe uses a double screen (Alu-Mylar/95% woven) alongside the acclaimed Atlas dual drain system, which, when used in conjunction with Atlas Grun cables, effectively snubs out any RF (Radio Frequency) emission from the cables and reduces the overall system RF load.
The Luxe treatment
Given the specifications, the Asimi Luxe Grun is indeed a world beater in terms of technology and sonic ability. However, manufacturing a great sounding cable is one thing. Making it look every bit as glorious as it sounds is another.
Hand crafted Nappa leather is meticulously applied to each cable to the exact specification of the customer with a choice of finishes – Ebony, Brogue, Ivory and Daytona Red and two stitching options -Cross stitch and Baseball stitch. No other manufacture offers this level of customisation or quality.
The Asimi Luxe with Grun is available in three configurations;
- Asimi Luxe 2-2
- Asimi Luxe 2-4
- Asimi Luxe 4-4
UK retail prices for the Asimi Luxe 2-2, 2-4 or 4-4
1.0m – £6,600 inc vat
1.5m – £9,400 inc vat
2.0m – £12,200 inc vat
2.5m – £15,000 inc vat
3.0m – £17,800 inc vat
Notes About Atlas
Atlas Cables originated in Scotland in 2001 to bring high quality no-nonsense cabling solutions to audiophiles the world over. Their range of hand-made cables consists of interconnects, loudspeaker cables, digital cables and video cables (including HDMI) along with a new range of mains products. Recent technology and testing developments have meant that they can now show real answers to questions posed about the effects that cables have and the importance of the materials used in the design. Atlas cables are priced from £45 and are available in over thirty countries worldwide.