Townshend Fractal Interconnects 1 metre pair

F1 Fractal Interconnects (ex demonstration) new retail price £1018
HiFi In Touch comment: These are stunning sounding interconnects that in our opinion take some beating at any price. We can’t recommend these cables highly enough simply because they sound so neutral, detailed, smooth and most importantly very musical.

Townshend Audio Description
Fractal-Wire is Townshend Audios ultimate interconnect. It took a long time to improve the Isolda EDCT (Enhanced? Deep Cryogenic Treatment), but we finally achieved it by developing the Fractal-Wire? proprietary treatment process.

This is as big a breakthrough as was achieved and much imitated when we discovered the benefits of Enhanced Deep Cryogenic Treatment (also applied to Fractal-Wire?). But this time we are  keeping the details to ourselves! Suffice to say that you have not heard a truly transparent cable until you have heard Townshend Audio Fractal-Wire.

Each Fractal-Wire Interconnect is made by hand because this is the only way to build a cable that has the absolute minimum contact with the insulator. The signal travels through a very thin polyester coated enamelled copper wire, which is spiralled around a much thicker bare copper ground. Because signal and return conductors are so tightly spaced external electric fields cannot get in. As a result, these cables completely stop hum in valve amplifier setups, whilst blocking radio frequency interference (RFI).

As the signal conductors only come into occasional contact with the inner of the two concentric PTFE tubes degradation due dielectric mass is kept at the barest minimum. The PTFE tubes are in turn placed inside a clear PVC outer.

Fractal-Wire is terminated in the industry best Neutrik Profi RCA phono plugs which have a spring loaded ground collar. The balanced version of Fractal-Wire incorporates two strands of the ultra-fine enamelled copper conductor spiralled together with a parallel drain wire but no shielding, it is terminated with Neutrik XLR plugs.