Chord Cream Epic Head to Stack Instrument Cable 1m

One of the biggest potential upgrades you can make to a separate head and speaker cabinet set up is to change the connecting cable that joins them together. The problem with this connection is that it more often than not uses the same ¼ inch jack sockets that are used on guitars and effect pedals.

This means that it’s very easy to use a cable that is designed to carry the signal from a guitar, rather than the heavy gauge conductors that are needed to carry the amplified signal from the output of the amplifier to the speakers. This will have a big effect on sound quality. There is world of difference between a coaxial signal cable and a speaker cable. So using a guitar cable to join a head to a speaker cabinet will really spoil the tone and the dynamics, it could even damage the amplifier.

The Chord Cream Epic head-to-stack cable is built from Chord Epic, one of The Chord Company’s high-performance shielded speaker cables. The Chord Cream Epic has heavy gauge silver-plated conductors, PTFE insulation and a high frequency effective shield.

The conductors are designed to carry a high-power signal extremely accurately, so the Chord Cream Epic head-to-stack connector makes a big improvement to tone, and to playing dynamics as well. Even better, Epic has a big reputation in the world of Hi-Fi for working particularly well with valve amplifiers.

If you are using a serious head and speaker cabinet, you really need to try this. You could be surprised at just what you’ve been missing.

The Chord Company take music very seriously. They believe not just listening to, but making, music enhances all our lives. The natural progression for Chord, from designing and building high-quality home and AV cables, was to turn their attention to musical instrument cables. Chord Cream was the result.

One of the most important things a correctly designed instrument cable will do is reduce the amount of interference the cable can pick up. To this end, an instrument cable can present some interesting challenges. Not only does it have to transmit the signal as accurately as possible but it also needs to be highly flexible, resistant to both mechanical and electrical interference and of course, reliable.

Chord Cream Instrument cable features a screened twisted pair design with cotton spacers, in order to minimise both mechanical and electrical noise. Of course, Cream instrument cable is fitted with very durable and reliable Neutrik plugs. The technology used also makes the Cream cable suitable for microphone use as well.