Atlas Zeno Headphone Cable

High performance cables for ‘high-end’ headphones.

‘High-end’ headphones are growing in popularity at an extraordinary rate, but many users quickly come to realise that the original cables supplied with many models tend to be of average quality, not very durable and are supplied in typically quite short lengths.

Our Zeno cables are a high performance OCC copper replacement cable for dynamic headphones (not electrostatics) from most audiophile brands. If you don’t see your brand listed, please contact us, we may be able to help. Because Atlas design & manufacture in-house, we can accept most custom build requests.

To achieve our design and performance goals for Zeno, we employed our proven cold-weld solder-free construction methods, the objective being to produce a signal path with the minimum of the breaks in continuity which degrade fidelity. Staying true to our design principles meant designing a new family of low-mass, wide bandwidth connectors. These Metik connectors are available in 2.5, 3.5mm & 6.3mm jack plugs plus a 4 pin XLR version in our ‘dark chrome’ finish.

Standard lengths available are from 1.5–4m in 0.5m increments, with custom lengths available on request.

Features

Metik Jack Plug/XLR

The Metik is a low-mass, non-compression, constant impedance, solder-free construction jack plug, available in 2.5, 3.5 & 6mm sizes. Zeno cables can also be configured with 3 or 4 pin XLR connectors.

OCC Copper

OCC (Ohno Continuous Casting) process was developed by Professor Ohno, from the Chiba Institute of Technology, to manufacture a very high purity single grain copper or silver. There are only a handful of companies in the world manufacturing via this method.

PTFE

Microporous PTFE (Teflon™) is a unique, low density dielectric material, phase stable at room temperature, which offers significant performance improvements over solid PTFE (Teflon™) dielectric designs.

Co-ax

Central conductor (signal path) surrounded by dielectric material encased within a circular conducting screen which acts as the signal return path.

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