Willington, County Durham 19 Feb 2020. Kudos Audio, the UK’s Isobaric loudspeaker

design and manufacting specialist, announced today it was making KS-1 loudspeaker

cable available for retail sale. This follows many requests from Kudos retailers and

distributors.

KS-1 was developed by Kudos around a year ago for use for internally wiring its

high-quality, high-end loudspeakers. KS-1 was another element in ensuring

absolute consistency of product quality over time. As someone who has since retired

from the hi-fi industry once said: “Anyone can make a good prototype: it’s whether

the 10,000th is the same as the first that sorts the men from the boys.”

Kudos KS-1 is the result of the KISS principle of design: the right materials, wellexecuted

win over fancy marketing related engineering every time.

KS-1’s conductors are 19 strands of silver-plated Oxygen-Free Copper (OFC)

insulated with Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP) run with a slow twist and all

surrounded by a hard PVC outer for protection, physical damping and simplicity of

use.

FEP shares PTFE’s ideal low dielectric constant but is a little softer for improved

mechanical damping. The choice of 19 strands is not random: there were multiple

listening tests carried out to identify sonic differences from the number of strands

changing while keeping the overall conductor diameter the same. Nineteen proved

to be the ideal.

Kudos KS-1 will supply retailers in 100m drums to allow termination and length as

the customer requires.

Kudos anticipate that KS-1 will cost  30 per linear metre unterminated.

Specification

Conductor Size 15 AWG

Conductor Diameter 1.5 mm

Conductors 19*0.3 mm

Conductors Silver-plated OFC copper

Insulation FEP

Outer Cover PVC

Resistance 0.15 Ohm loop resistance for typical 5m run