"I was going to buy Odyssey but my dealer let me listen to Epic and there was no going back.”
Chord Epic speaker cable is the result of a happy marriage between two of our award winning speaker cables. Epic uses the same conductors as Chord Odyssey, and the shielding, visible through its translucent jacket is taken from our Signature speaker cable. The shielding brings big improvements right across the frequency range. There is space around individual instruments and the timbre of instruments is easy to hear. Violins, cellos and violas sound more realistic, likewise pianos, bass notes have great definition and rhythms are easy to follow and get involved with.
Fitting properly effective shields to speaker cable is a pretty big deal and fitting shielded speaker cable to your system can border on astonishing. The reduction and the level of perceived noise means that very fine dynamic and tonal information is easily heard, and brings improvements not only to the high frequency performance of a system, but also the bass and mid frequencies. The space around notes and the extra harmonic content that Epic can bring to a system is really surprising. The complex harmonic information that makes up the timbre of stringed and bowed instruments is carried extremely accurately.
Epic could bring some serious improvements to the sound quality of your system, and it’s a big step toward making a real connection with your music.
Listen to the Epic with: Gary Louris "True Blue from the album "Vagabonds”.
Hear: A chorus that will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
Listen for: This is a track where it’s really easy to hear the contribution of every instrument and the space that each one is given.
Conductors: 2 x 12 AWG 19 strand silver-plated oxygen free copper.
Configuration: Twisted pair configuration.
Conductor insulation: PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene). We believe that to obtain the most neutral tonal characteristic from silver-plated conductors it is vital to use PTFE insulation. White with red stripe is positive, white with black stripe is negative.
Internal conductor surround: PVC.
Shielding: Dual layer, high density braid and overlapped foil.
External jacket: PVC.
Diameter: 11mm.
Colour: Translucent brown.
Terminations: Chord 24 karat gold-plated banana plugs, direct gold-plated copper spade connectors and BFA Camcon connectors.
Use it with
Chord Epic is a high performance shielded speaker cable with many of the performance characteristics of the more expensive Chord Signature. It will work with any system, and anyone with wide bandwidth speakers will really hear the definition and timbre that Epic brings to bass instruments, both acoustic and electric. The shielding on Epic helps with more than bass; it will bring a natural and involving coherence across the frequency range. Once run in, Epic makes listening to music easy and very enjoyable.