Synergistic Research SRX XL Phono

SRX XL

Phono

The ultra-low voltage phono signal presents the ultimate challenge in cable design—demanding geometries and shielding solutions that can capture the most delicate musical information while maintaining pitch-black backgrounds. Building on our flagship SRX XL technologies, the SRX XL Phono rises to this challenge with revolutionary engineering specifically optimized for phono cartridges. Our all-new UEF compound applied to advanced matrix shielding works in harmony with refined pure silver conductor geometries engineered with strategic electromagnetic coupling and decoupling zones specifically for cartridge compatibility. We’ve scaled up the number of hand-made air-dielectric pure silver high-current conductors while optimizing their spacing and interaction to meet the electrical requirements of both high and low output cartridges. This precision geometry captures harmonic nuance, ambient detail, and holographic realism that brings your vinyl collection to life. The SRX XL Phono doesn’t just transfer your cartridge’s delicate signal—it preserves the soul of your records with unprecedented fidelity. Every cable undergoes our enhanced high voltage conditioning process, transforming your turntable and cartridge into a conduit for vinyl’s authentic voice with remarkable openness and accuracy. The result is analog reproduction that reveals subtle musical textures and spatial cues previously masked by inferior cables, unlocking new levels of clarity, dynamics, and musical authenticity that brings vinyl playback to new heights of lifelike realism while improving soundstage scale, noise floor reduction, and effortless high-frequency extension with enhanced musicality.

Discover how transformational the new SRX XL Phono is and audition it in your system today. Whether comparing your finest pressings to master tapes or digital sources, experience how these cables unlock the musical truth within your vinyl collection. And if you already have a complete loom of SRX series cables in your system, ask your dealer or distributor how you can take advantage of our Lifetime Passport Protection Plan, where you receive a 70% trade-in allowance for your existing SRX series cables toward a new loom of SRX XL series. Of course, you can audition risk-free to gauge the improvements these exceptional cables can affect in your system.

Enhanced Cable Geometries

6N Pure Silver Airstrings, Multiplied

While voicing the SRX XL, we developed more comprehensive cable geometries with additional 99.9995% Pure Silver Air Strings. In doing so, music is portrayed with more immediacy and resolution, improving upon dynamics and transient response in a completely non-fatiguing way.

UEF Matrix Shield with Graphene

SRX XL Matrix Shielding

In our journey to design our latest flagship SRX XL series, we developed an entirely new UEF compound to elevate the performance of our previous Matrix Shielding, which further lowers each cable's noise floor while lessening restraints a shield may have on signal transmission. We apply this highest level of shielding to our new SRX XL cables for a significant jump in performance over the standard SX. SRX and Master Tuning Bullets developed for the SRX series cables further refines and enhances the loom's ability to cancel noise that would otherwise cause high frequencies to sound harsh or fatiguing.

SRX + Master Carbon Cable Tuning Modules

Redefining Refinement

SRX XL cables come standard with the most potent and musical SRX Master and Gold carbon fiber UEF Tuning Bullets in our company’s 30-year history. The bullets are specially voiced for the SRX cable series so you can strike the perfect balance between detail and musicality for your system. Both Gold and Master bullets are handcrafted in our Southern California Factory from carbon fiber and aircraft aluminum, with the Gold bullet plated in 24k gold not only for aesthetic beauty but also to help voice the bullet to its intended role as the most musical option for specific systems. To use SRX Carbon Fiber Tuning Modules, allow your SRX cables to settle into your system for 48-72 hours, and then experiment with your two options on a cable by cable basis. Start by inserting a Gold Bullet and then compare to the Master option and select the variant that makes music in your system. Gold Bullets have a warm and liquid balance that is also more open and transparent than our other warm-biased tuning bullets. While Master is more extended and detailed but the option that will work best and sound neutral is totally system dependent. If you voice your SRX cables one pair at a time, you will find one color that works best in most applications, plus a few that perform better with the alternate option. This process is how you will get the best from both Gold and Master bullets when arriving at a bespoke cable loom voiced for your unique system. Note, UEF Tuning Bullets work 100% outside the signal path!

Master Tuning Module’s Sonic Characteristics:

• Greater Air and Detail
• Musicality
• Liquid Smoothness

Gold Tuning Module’s Sonic Characteristics:

• Greater Musicality
• Greater Liquid Smoothness
• Air and Detail

Connectors are Not All Created Equal

SR XLR

After years of research into connector design we chose high purity, high conductivity, low mass Silver as the base material for SR20 RCA and XLR connectors to deliver more refined detail and accurate information. Teflon is used for its dielectric properties and the special design gives the greatest area of contact both for wire and plugs insuring that all of your music will get through. These high performance connectors are standard on our flagship Interconnects and can be added to other cable series interconnects as a performance driven upgrade path.

Quantum Tunneling

SRX XL High Voltage Conditioning

The new SRX XL High Voltage Conditioning is our most advanced process for treating cables with 1,000,000 volts of electricity at specific frequencies and pulse modulations for long durations, creating a canal in the conductor material and contact points at the molecular level that allows electrons to flow more freely. This new process improves upon the SRX High Voltage Conditioning process by employing new extended duration sweeping frequency plots and advancements to our Tesla Coil, resulting in SRX XL cables to sound even more open and accurate than the cables before them.