Chord Shawline X Speaker Cable

£210.00 – £346.00

Shawline X speaker cable uses the same silver-plated conductors, XLPE insulation and twisted pair configuration as Chord Rumour X, but enhanced with a PVC internal jacket to reduce mechanical noise and the same high density dual-layer shielding used on Chord Epic.

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Brand: Chord Company Category: Speaker Cables

Description

Chord Shawline X speaker cable is based around Chord Rumour (now known as Rumour X) – a favourite for 20+ years. The conductors are silver-plated, insulated with XLPE and arranged in a twisted pair configuration. To produce Shawline X, Chord took the existing conductor layout, added a specially chosen PVC internal jacket to reduce mechanical noise, before applying the same high density, dual-layer foil and braid shield that is used on Chord Epic.

Previous versions of Shawline and Rumour speaker cables used PTFE insulation (often referred to as Teflon™) and until the arrival of Taylon®, this was Chord’s “go to” dialectric material. Although expensive, PTFE offered the best performance.

Material technology is constantly developing and improving and alternatives to PTFE are now available. While the high cost of Taylon® prevents Chord from using this in all of its ranges, they found a suitable replacement among the family of insulation materials known as XLPE (Cross-linked Polyethylene). One particular version stood out and following listening tests, proved to be clearly (sonically) better than the PTFE in the original Shawline and Rumour speaker cables.

Rumour / Rumour X has been part of the Chord range for so long because of its performance. It’s neutral (ie. not biased towards one particular sound) and capable of carrying high levels of detail and dynamic information. Because of this, it will carry music in an extremely coherent manner. In other words, your music sounds more like it should.

Shawline X takes this as a starting point and refines it. The whole reason for using high frequency effective shielding is that by reducing interference, the cable is better able to carry the micro-dynamics and timing slurs that musicians use so much to define rhythm and expression. The Shawline also carries the very fine details that reveal more of the timbre of individual instruments. This allows you to look further into and get more involved in music, with the added benefit of enhancing the image and depth of the system it’s being used in.

Our ShawlineX speaker cables are terminated at Chord’s UK factory with ChordOhmic 4 mm banana plugs or ChordOhmic spade connectors.

Additional information

Brand	Chord Company
Colour	White
Cable Length	Custom, 1.5 m, 2 m, 2.0 m, 2.5 m, 3.0 m, 4.0 m, 5.0 m
Cable Termination	Banana to banana, Banana to spade, Spade to banana, Spade to spade
Warranty	Limited lifetime

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