| With its ability to deliver deep,
extended lows and crystal clear highs, Ecosse's Baton Interconnect
redefines the standard for hi-tech, hi performance cables at an
affordable price. Extremely solid sound staging in a virtually
noise-free environment helps deliver a totally convincing performance.
And its design is just as revolutionary. Never before has an
interconnect of this quality and construction been available to the
consumer at this price level.
Conceived and designed as an upgrade to the world
renowned and multi-award winning Ecosse 'Conductor CA1 Interconnect, the
Baton is an all-new 'balanced' analogue interconnect cable.
Just like NASA we have taken technology designed for
one of our much more expensive products and 'trickled' it down for use
in this much more affordably cable-without compromising the integrity of
this technology. The Baton is a
'symmetrical' cable where-in the two conductors, 'going' and
'return' are electrically identical-this helps to reduce
'RFI noise'.
The Baton uses several sub-topologies synergised in
one cable resulting in a quite unique structure: It offers deep
silver-plated (for faster smoother transmission of the delicate audio
signal-since silver has a 10% gain in conductance compared to copper, a
copper wire plated with silver will have less signal loss especially at
longer lengths.) Ultra Hi Purity-OFC™ conductors, which are helically
wound around a polymer core, forming a cylinder.
Each of the two identical (send and return) signal
conductors is then sheathed in a low-density gas-foamed Polyethylene (LDFPE)
primary insulator. Each conductor is individually screened with a
continuous coverage aluminium/Mylar foil shield and tinned-copper drain
wire.
The two conductors are held in precise formation by
our unique and patented Isohelix™ jacket clamp. This clamp mechanism
ensures that the 'send' and 'return' conductors are kept in precise
relationship to each other - necessary to critically maintain the
electrical characteristics of this device - and forms the second line of
defence against the deleterious effects of microphony.
Another continuous aluminium-Mylar foil shield and
drain adds further screening before the whole 'structure' is
encapsulated in soft PVC - the first line of defence against microphony
- protecting the conductors from the elements.
The Baton is available either in 'pseudo-balanced RCA'
or 'fully balanced XLR' form. In 'pseudo-balanced' form, the screen is
connected at one end only (source) to drain unwanted
'noise' ingress (R.F.I). Here, our high-quality COPPER (others use
vastly inferior brass-yeuch!)
MACH1 non-compressing, conjugate bracket (designed to form a
'Faraday Cage'- a device for reducing RFI) hard silver-plated RCA plugs
were selected for this cable for realisation of the best performance and
screening.
In balanced form, we use high-quality XLR plugs, again
copper alloy, direct silver-plated, as this was auditioned to offer the
best performance with balanced equipment.
We recommend you try this cable with our ES range of
'speaker' cables. Heres our complete
cable synergy table for reference. |
