THE COMPANY
The Madison Audio Project started as a research project to make the highest performance audio cables at a reasonable price. Unlike the common approach with experimentation as the main tool, the MAP approach required background research within the audio industry, to form a specialist team of people who had the necessary experience and had shown traits of pure genius. Within the audio industry we found those who had the background, experience and scientific knowledge.
The Madison Audio Project Mission
The mission for MAP was simple.
To form an elite group of people and find ways to produce the best audio cables,
at lower prices to benefit a greater number of audiophiles.
The design team
The MAP design team is a select group, each member having a unique background, from audiophile, to audio professional and through the ranks of musicians and electrical engineers.
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The construction design had to remain simple, but the materials would be exotic, including fine Teflon® air tubes and fine Teflon® braid to hold the cable construction together. Production
efficiency would be essential to control costs, and yet Quality Control would have to conform
with USA ‘Zero-Defect’ standards.
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MADISON AUDIO LABS INTRODUCES ITS EXCLUSIVE NEW CONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY FROM JAPAN
Making of the Silver or Copper into a conductor requires a process where the material is ‘drawn’ or pulled through a series of dies until the final conductor diameter is achieved. In the process of making the final conductor, any ‘pure silver’, ‘pure copper’ or ‘single crystal’ is compromised. The conductor is typically less pure, and has many more breaks in the crystal structure than at the start of the process. The additional handling and spooling of the final conductor means that the conductor is now ‘work-hardened’ and is not as conductive compared to the original OCC rod.
In an effort to create a better ‘finished’ conductor, the Madison ESC™ uses a series of preheated Kyocera ceramic drawing dies, along with a specially timed annealing process, applied inline just before the extrusion of the PTFE (Teflon™) insulation. The finished insulated Madison conductor has a very long, unbroken crystal structure. This is important to conductivity, and to having a truly flat and uniform frequency / phase response.
WHY DO ALL OF THIS ?
Any break in the crystal (a lattice) can result in a point of change in uniform AC frequency response. These crystal junctions are electrical discontinuities that act as frequency dependent diodes. Or to put it another way, these broken points within a conductor will inhibit the flow of AC electrical current at certain frequencies.
A more perfect conductor sounds cleaner, more transparent and more neutral than one that is less conductive. When the cable design is revealing and extended in the high frequencies, even small differences in conductivity may result in audible differences in sound quality. With the Madison Silver or Copper conductors, you will hear perfect, in-phase coherent higher order harmonics. And this is the stuff that makes music, sound live.