Following its award-winning HDMI Silver Plus and budget-priced HDMI SuperShield cables, The Chord Company has added another high-performance HDMI cable to its range. The 1.3c-certified HDMI Active is claimed to deliver ‘significant improvements’ in terms of sound quality.
It retains Chord’s established heavy gauge silver plated oxygen free signal conductors with 26AWG conductors to reduce signal attenuation and overlapped foil shielding to minimise crosstalk. There’s also double outer foil and high-density braid intended to minimise the levels of external interference and type A connectors with high purity gold plated signal contacts.
The Chord HDMI Active
But there’s also a high frequency filter on all lengths of the new cable, which reduces the intra/inter channel skew between the four pairs of TDMS signals. The company claims that in video tests using Denon, Arcam, Yamaha and Playstation 3 DVD and Blu-ray players, picture aspects too were improved by the new cable and that participants consistently chose a 15m Chord Active HDMI cable over a similarly priced 1m cable.
A spokesman said that when compared to the Chord HDMI Silver plus 1.3, the Chord Active produced a ‘more detailed, dynamic and crucially musically coherent sound’.
The Chord HDMI Active is available in a variety of lengths: 0.75m (£95), 1.5m (£115), 3m (£130), 5m (£150), 8m (£200), 10m (£230) and 15m (£300), 20m (£450).