Locus Design Parable

We are proud to present our Parable interconnect cable.

The Parable is a culmination of everything we have learned about analog interconnect design over the last 25 years.

For those who desire, and have the means, to afford the very best.

Starting at $5450 for a 3FT pair.  Contact us for more information, and to order.

Following is a short 'cable mission statement' that I sent to a client who asked for more information, I thought I'd share it here:

Over the last 25 years, I have been striving to come up with methods of building the "quietest" cable available. By "quietest", I mean a cable that is as mmune to the environment it is placed in both electrically, and mechanically as possible. In addition to this immunity to outside influences, a "quiet" cable must exhibit high self damping characteristics, so that any excitement to the internal signal conductors (via the components to which the cable is attached) is immediately quelled, and this energy is then dissipated as low level heat. In a nutshell, this is my "philosophy" of cable design.

I look at a cable as a "whole", not just a collection of component parts. While I use the best materials available (custom drawn wire, Furutech or Bocchino connectors, Mundorf solder, etc.), I am striving for gestalt, in order to produce an end product that is remarkable. For myself as a designer, to get my cables from "good" to "great" required me to start thinking differently, and visualizing the end product as a complete entity; including visualizing how I wanted this entity to perform, and then setting goals and standards for this entity. Once I started thinking like this, I designed the Axis, Nucleus and Cynosure USB cables, the Vision interconnect, the Core digital cable, and the Keynote power cable, all of which have been universally praised, and have won many awards. All of which leads us to the Parable.

The Parable is a result of my latest thinking on analog interconnect design, and takes all of the technologies I have developed over the years to their extreme, which of course meant not designing to a price point, and using what I feel are the best materials for the job, regardless of cost. To this end, I started at the beginning, and looked at the basic building blocks of an analog interconnect cable, the wire (conductors), the shielding, the damping, the jacketing materials, the ends, etc... In short, I carefully considered each element in the cable, and picked those elements that worked together to achieve my goal of producing the "quietest" cable that I know how to make.

While I have always had custom wire drawn to my specifications, the wire used in the Parable is my best work yet. In addition to using the highest quality raw materials, and most advanced manufacturing techniques available (like all of my wire), I developed an insulator with a remarkable resistance to being excited, ie, it is very "dead", and has a very low Q ring. This wire has many upsides, but is also incredibly expensive to manufacture, so it is only suitable for cost no object products.

I then have this wire weaved into a proprietary braid, which forms the core of the Parable. The braid serves to tie the conductors together as one unit, while still allowing each conductor to be isolated from each other. Around this "core" unit, I then add various layers of damping and shielding materials; including, but not limited to, cotton, nylon, Teflon, mylar, SPC braid, carbon fiber, and others I will not disclose. All materials are chosen for their ability to work together to damp and shield the inner core from outside influence, as well as dissipate any energy that the conductor core may have picked up from the components they are tying together.

As an aside, all Parable's will be built by me personally, as I am the only one who knows exactly what goes into the cable, and I am not going to share this knowledge with anyone, anytime soon.


Trial Policy: Any custom Locus Design cable may be returned within 30 days for a refund, if for some odd reason it does not perform as expected in your system. A 20% restocking fee (of the the total price) will be charged and any shipping charges incurred will be the responsibility of the buyer. In order to be eligible for return, the cable must be in 'new' condition (this condition will be evaluated by myself, ie., I will be the judge), returned within 30 days and have a valid RMA attached to the packaging.

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