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Wireworld Debuts Revolutionary Insta-Wire Instant Termination Speaker Cables for Custom Installers (31/10/2005)

Wireworld introduced their two-conductor Stream 52 and four-conductor Luna 52 loudspeaker cables to custom installers at the CEDIA Expo here today. Both cables feature round, easy-to-pull jackets, and are compatible with the company's proprietary Insta-Wire(tm)connectors, the world's fastest system for creating custom, audiophile-quality speaker cables. The cables can also be stripped easily and used with conventional connectors.

"The Stream and Luna cable lines are adaptations of our Insta-Wire(tm) system specifically made with custom installers in mind," said David Salz, Wireworld's president and chief designer. "They let installers provide their customers with a very-high-quality cable in a fraction of the time it takes to terminate conventional twisted-pair speaker wire or zip cord. Terminating with our Insta-Wire spade and banana plug terminators is as simple as cut and squeeze - 'snip, snap.' It's so easy you can do it blindfolded, and with nothing more than a pair of scissors or a pocket knife."

The outer sheath of the Stream 52 and Luna 52 cables are round to facilitate pulling in-wall cable runs, but the conductors are a unique flat design made of oxygen-free-copper with a cross-sectional area equivalent to a conventional 16-gauge round conductor. Each conductor is insulated in polyethylene to reduce capacitance and dielectric absorption for cleaner high frequencies, while maintaining fidelity. The proprietary conductor design provides uniform series impedance for superior fidelity, even over long runs. Developed through objective perceptual testing, this design minimizes inductive losses to produce dramatic improvements in clarity, dynamics and spatial effects.

The highly intuitive Insta-Wire terminations are premium-grade connectors made from oxygen-free copper, clad in a thick layer of highly conductive silver, and then gold plated to prevent oxidation. They use a proprietary design that makes it easy to create very-high-quality banana-plug or spade-lug terminations. Once the wire is inserted into the openings, the connector is squeezed, driving silver-clad and gold-plated oxygen-free copper blades through the insulation to create a high-pressure crimp connection on each of the conductors.

The Luna 52 cable consists of two pairs of conductors, and can be used to drive a pair of loudspeakers, or for bi-wiring applications. For use with a single speaker channel, the positive and negative conductor pairs can be terminated together to create a low inductance loudspeaker cable with a 13-gauge effective diameter.

The Stream 52 and Luna 52 speaker cables each carry Underwriter's UL-CL3 rating and Canada's CSA-FT4 rating for in-wall use. They will be available in October at suggested retail prices of $0.90 per foot, and $1.50 per foot, respectively.

The Wireworld Insta-Wire connectors are available in with either banana plugs or spade-lug connections. They will also be available in October at a suggested retail price of $3.95 each.

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