Technology
Vibration Control
Highlights
Vibration is one of the largest issues in electricity, and as a result we focus on it a lot. Scientifically speaking, energy and matter are neither lost nor gained, but only change form. When an electrical signal enters a wire, it encounters resistance. To overcome this resistance, work is required. The product of this work is heat and vibration, which are converted from the energy of the original signal. Therefore, at the other end of the wire you are left with only the amount of electrical signal that was not lost to these by-products of the work needed to overcome the resistance of the wire.
The chambers that surround the wires contain a material that not only provides a large surface area to dampen the wire’s vibrations, but also address magnetic flux lines and RFI. If only these chambers were used, it would be an incredible cable. In fact, our Copper 3 series is based on this premise and favorably competes with many more costly cables.
Magnets
As definable as vibration control is, the magnets are not! Our magnet supplier best summed them up as the closest thing to magic that science has encountered! We have many theories about the physics behind the phenomena, which can be both substantiated and repudiated, and have found that they can be very detrimental to sound quality if used improperly. So why do we use magnets? In the strenuous months of product development, we consistently heard a significant difference when they were used in different manners. The technology has been experimented with for years to come up with the exact array that most precisely mimics live performance. To confirm our findings, we brought musicians to perform in our listening room to evaluate the similarities of their sound against recordings, just to make sure that we were listening not to what we wanted to hear, but to what was REAL. After many discussions and different configurations, we discovered a breakthrough that brought ‘jump and jive’ as one customer defined it, and a sound to be truly NVS of.
A simple placement of a hand on a breaker box will illustrate how much vibration can be caused by the flow of electricity. This is an exaggeration of what can happen within a cable, but NVS Sound has still found that any means taken to reduce vibration results in a drastic increase in fidelity, especially in the clarity, size of the soundstage, and accuracy of timbres. The use of multiple varieties of vibration control has been extremely effective, and it has even been found that cables with lesser quality terminations can outperform some of the best if better vibration control is applied. NVS Sound stands for quality however, and uses the highest quality terminations for each price point. The final judge of quality is still the same, listening over cost. Our main application of vibration control utilizes special chambers that contain various types of dampening depending on the line.
Highlights
- Specially designed chambers that are filled with a unique materials that control vibration and provides RF and EMI shielding. There are a variety of materials used in different product lines, and it is these that attribute to the weight of the cable.
- The chamber itself also contracts to clamp down to the wire.
Vibration is one of the largest issues in electricity, and as a result we focus on it a lot. Scientifically speaking, energy and matter are neither lost nor gained, but only change form. When an electrical signal enters a wire, it encounters resistance. To overcome this resistance, work is required. The product of this work is heat and vibration, which are converted from the energy of the original signal. Therefore, at the other end of the wire you are left with only the amount of electrical signal that was not lost to these by-products of the work needed to overcome the resistance of the wire.
The chambers that surround the wires contain a material that not only provides a large surface area to dampen the wire’s vibrations, but also address magnetic flux lines and RFI. If only these chambers were used, it would be an incredible cable. In fact, our Copper 3 series is based on this premise and favorably competes with many more costly cables.
Magnets
As definable as vibration control is, the magnets are not! Our magnet supplier best summed them up as the closest thing to magic that science has encountered! We have many theories about the physics behind the phenomena, which can be both substantiated and repudiated, and have found that they can be very detrimental to sound quality if used improperly. So why do we use magnets? In the strenuous months of product development, we consistently heard a significant difference when they were used in different manners. The technology has been experimented with for years to come up with the exact array that most precisely mimics live performance. To confirm our findings, we brought musicians to perform in our listening room to evaluate the similarities of their sound against recordings, just to make sure that we were listening not to what we wanted to hear, but to what was REAL. After many discussions and different configurations, we discovered a breakthrough that brought ‘jump and jive’ as one customer defined it, and a sound to be truly NVS of.
Due to the weight involved in the magnets and their corresponding shielding, we can only offer them on power cables and speaker wire. Preliminary results on a box for interconnects has been promising, and may be offered in the future.
Conductors
Through extensive testing, NVS Sound found that pure silver conductors outperformed copper in every way when used in the same geometry. Given the cost of silver, the two conductive materials are rarely compared equally. NVS Sound's flagship series is the Silver 1, build around six 9's pure OCC silver braided conductors. The copper lines have a unique conductor as well, stranded with various size wires twisted and counter-twisted within each bundle.
Dielectrics
The Copper series utilizes a special litz coating, applied in an oxygen-free atmosphere to ultimately eliminate the oxidation and corrosion that destroys conductivity. The Silver series uses teflon, as a manufacturer that can provide the proper litz coating, conductor bundles and OCC process all in one conductor has yet to be sourced for silver. Despite the inequality in this regard, the silver conductors still outperform the copper by a large margin.
