The Myth/Pro

The Myth/ Pro

An Audiophile-Reference Grade cable, The Myth Analog (and Analog-Pro) Interconnect compliments the performance of high-end single-ended hardware.

A coaxial design of very sophisticated construction, the signal conductor comprises of a solidcore conductor 0.33mm sq of 6N purity silver (99.9999%), perfectly circular in cross-section. There are no less than 3 screens to fully protect the signal from the deleterious effects of EMI, ESI and RFI induced distortions. Uniquely, this asymmetrical coaxial cable is also available in balanced (symmetrical) configuration. Here the centre core is positive phase, the inner screen negative and the outer screen becomes 'earth'

The signal conductor has a dielectric of ultra low loss Foamed Polyethylene. The return conductor and inner screen comprise of 100% coverage pure copper foil and a close-lapped braid of silver-plated Ultra-Hi Purity-OFC^TM. This is sheathed in a PTFE (Teflon) separator. The outer screen is a close-lapped braid of silver-plated Ultra-Hi Purity-OFC^TM and is grounded at source end only.

The clever bit is the layer of Vibrakill^TM Neoprene^TM sandwiched between the outer screen and the soft PVC jacket, virtually eliminating the effects of microphony and contributing greatly to the preservation of the accuracy and integrity of the signal.

The plugs we use to terminate this cable are the latest, ultimate development of Ecosse's MACH2 RCA -uniquely, their centre pins and conjugate bracket shields (designed to form a 'Faraday Cage'-a device designed to maximise RF screening) are both deep silver-plated Monocrystal^TMMACH3 Ultima XLR plugs. Copper. In balance configuration we use our over-designed

As an immediate upgrade option we offer the Myth Analog in a Pro-version using our most sophisticated RCA plug assembly-the awesome MACH3 frighteningly expensive constant-impedance Monocrystal^TM Ag over Cu RCA plugs. A heavy, silver-plated brass body, with twin high tensile fixing screws, clamps the double-shielded assembly uniformly and without stress. This shield, which grips the cable, does so firmly but without compressing the cable, ensuring that the crucial characteristic impedance is maintained.

When terminating, the solder joints are formed with Supersolder^TM, our new ultra high purity silver and tin alloy wire, together with our unique, passive organic flux, ensuring a joint with vanishingly low resistance, ultra low chemical contaminants and very high strength.

It is sincerely recommended that you consider matching The Myth/Myth Pro with either our SMS loudSpeaker cables or, for ultimate satisfaction, with our US2 Monocrystal^TM Silver Speaker Cable.

I could say, "Ecosse cables are among the best I've heard." And that would do it. But it is in the telling of how, and why Ecosse are so good that makes Ecosse cables fascinating and gives anyone interested in them enough information to consider actually purchasing them.

I will also say, "As audiophile grade cables go, they are not cheap." But for questers, for those seeking the holy grail of reproduced sound so lifelike it can fool the ear (trompe-l'oreille?) into hearing live musicians in the listening room, for those knights errant they seem a bargain.

The Ecosse Myth/Pro interconnects and the Ecosse SMS2.4 loudspeaker cables are among the most "neutral" I've heard. Put simply, they are the least lossy cables I can remember hearing.

So how does it sound, this wonder of metallurgy, physical chemistry, cable geometry, and vibration control? It doesn't sound at all. I mean it has no "sonic personality" and that's the highest praise I can give. It enjoys a pretty flat frequency response. It enjoys a lack of time-smearing.

I have the Myth-Pro between my Marantz 8260 CD player and my much improved JC-2 Mark Levinson preamp, and I can report they never sounded better if the goal is to create the best facsimile of live musicians in the room. The attack/sustain/decay ratios are just so spot-on that everyone in a string quartet seems as though he/she is seated in a horseshoe array, and the sounds originate and develop from very well defined points in space. Each instrument sounds as it should and it knows its place, particularly on small chamber jazz groups, like the Tierney Sutton Band album (Telarc SACD-63650).

I feel pretty certain that these two sets of cables, the Ecosse Myth/Pro interconnect cables, and the Ecosse SMS2.4 loudspeaker cables are among the best at their price points, and are a striking example of applied theory in cable technology.

Max Dubious,POSITIVE FEEDBACK ONLINE MAGAZINE USA, FEB 2007

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