DIELECTRIC CHARGING

To prevent electrical short circuits between the wires, they need to be insulated. The insulation material, also known as the dielectric, has a huge influence on the transmission quality of audio cables. Pure air is theoretically the best dielectric, but it does not insulate. However, in the case of air-insulated audio cables, for example, the individual conductors are coated with an insulating layer of lacquer, which is essential for electrical safety reasons and has much poorer dielectric properties than, for example, PTFE (Teflon). In addition, this insulating layer and other “optimised” insulators are usually applied using high-temperature processes that damage the conductive structure and have a negative impact on the quality of the conductor’s material structure through chemical reactions. This also applies, for example, to approaches that avoid the most critical high-temperature processes in the application of e.g. Teflon insulators by banding the conductors, but then still require sintering processes to install the banding in a practical manner.

Our series of tests with various insulators – from the best polyethylenes PTFE (Teflon), FEP (which has a lower epsilon value than Teflon, but becomes liquid at 180 degrees and therefore has less negative effect on the necessary high temperature processes), foamed materials such as unbleached cotton, linen or silk, to extremely expensive and exotic solution tests with elaborate inert gas fillings and specifically applied battery voltages – have demonstrated the enormous performance of the insulators, foamed materials, natural substances such as unbleached cotton, linen or silk, to extremely expensive and exotic solution tests with elaborate inert gas fillings and specifically applied battery voltages – underlined the enormous sonic importance of the often underestimated dielectric

However, the contradiction between high insulation on the one hand and low storage capacity on the other could not be solved so satisfactorily with any of these approaches that the performance potential of the SCHNERZINGER signal conductor is not limited by electron braking and carry-over effects.

The SCHNERZINGER approach: SCHNERZINGER uses a combination of a special air-filled insulation material and the DIELECTRIC CHARGING process, a time-consuming production process that goes far beyond the approach of the best known insulation materials. This makes it possible to avoid the aforementioned negative effects of conventional materials and processing methods and to directly counteract the electron braking and carry-over effect of conventional insulation materials instead of just minimizing it by using better materials. The result is transmission properties that are even better than those of pure air.