70. Flagship Series ~ AES/EBU Digital Cable (OCC Silver @ Duelund Copper)

Designed and handcrafted with multiple combinations of 5N OCC silver wires mixed with Duelund tinned copper wires, carefully fine-tuned to achieve the highest sound quality.

Audiolund AES/EBU Digital Cable ~ Flagship Series

• Improved version: use multiple solid cores 2*15GA + 2*7 solid cores (24GA+26GA+28GA+29GA+29GA+32GA+32A) + 2*3*0.7mm 16GA of 5N OCC silver wires, combined with 2*12GA + 2*20GA of Duelund tinned copper wires
• Use various types and multiple layers of shielding materials for shielding to reduce noise and RFI/EMI interference
• With unique damping design, use various types of anti-vibration/damping materials to suppress vibration and isolation
• 1.0m standard length with other length options

We do not use a precision measurement equipment to measure, however, the Flagship Series AES/EBU Digital Cable is tested and verified on a few different high-end systems (Transport/DAC), with no signal error, perform better and comparably with other famous branded AES/EBU 110 ohm cables and thus, it is confirmed meeting the 110 ohm specification., The Flagship series AES/EBU Digital Cable is designed to have both the sound characteristics of WE and modern pure silver sound characteristic. It is a balance sound characteristic of WE and pure silver, thus could likely match well with most of the High-end system.

Flagship Series – Ultra High-End Version

• Add extra 1*Duelund Silver Foil V1, to the 11 solid cores of 15GA to 32GA of 5N OCC silver wires combined with 1*12GA  + extra 16GA + 1*20GA of Duelund tinned copper wires
• Flagship series AES/EBU Digital cable cross sectional area per meter per channel in square millimeters is est.3.61mm2 (OCC Silver)  and 3.82mm2 (Duelund copper).
• Flagship Ultra High-End series AES/EBU Digital cable cross sectional area per meter per channel in square millimetres is est. 3.61mm² (OCC Silver), 5.14mm² (Duelund copper) and 0.82mm² (Duelund Silver Foil).

A simple term for the selection of top 5 series with different sound characteristics:

1. If you like vintage Duelund Western Electric sound, can select Xtreme series
2. If you like modern 5N pure silver sound, can select True Silver series
3. If you like Duelund Western Electric sound, but would like to add pure silver sound characteristic too, can select Xtreme Silver series
4. If you like 5N pure silver sound, but would like to add Duelund vintage WE sound characteristic too, can select Ultimate Silver series
5. If you like both the Duelund Western Electric sound and the modern pure silver sound equally, can select Flagship series

We aim to have a balance and best sounds from both the Vintage Western Electric sound reproduced by Duelund Tinned Copper wires and modern Pure Silver sound reproduced by 5N OCC Silver wires. It is designed for owners with super high-end system and for those who demand for utmost best sounds of AES digital cable. It is my utmost recommendation for audiophiles with utmost system setup using AES digital cable. 

My humble comments: If you like both the WE sounds and the Pure Silver sounds equally, Flagship series is your ultimate choice. Flagship series is my utmost recommendation if price is not a concern. Alternatively, can consider the other top 4 series because they are equally good sounds but with different sound characteristics. My personal favorites are the Xtreme Silver series, Ultimate Silver series and Flagship series with a mixture of Duelund tinned copper wires and 5N OCC silver/Duelund silver wires.

XLR Plugs Orientation

Audiolund cables are quite thick and stiff, although it could be bend easily, but could be hard to “twist” if the orientation of the plugs is not aligned properly. The standard orientation for XLR plug is as above, however, it is also depending on how you place your equipment, Top to Down, Left to Right or Right to Left ?
Please provide a picture of your equipment, looking from the back, to show the XLR connectors.

Cable Run-In: Audiolund cables are mostly multi-core design with various combinations of wires. Thus, all Audiolund cables will require a long time to run in.  OCC Silver wires are thick solid core wires, will take even longer time to run in than Duelund tinned copper multi-strands of parallel thin core wires. The general guideline for run-in time, estimated 100 – 200 hours.  For Flagship series, will need to spend even more hours for cable run-in.