Origin Live SILVER HYBRID 2 & 2S Interconnects 
 
Origin Live Premium cables offer a supreme level of performance which embarrasses many much more expensive brands. These cables possess a fabulously natural tonal balance, great clarity and high speed dynamics. Our Unique Anti-Ringing technology is included in these designs. This feature improves performance especially in the bass which can drop low.
 
Silver Hybrid 2
Interconnect Cable
The Silver Hybrid 2 is an ultra high performance interconnect cable at a fraction of what you would normally need to invest for performance at this level. It is the lowest cable in the range to include our unique “anti-ringing” technology. To experience a highly significant upgrade in your system we simply invite you to put this claim to the test. With our 1 month money-back guarantee you can try them without risk.
 
"If ever there was a cable with an amazing cost-performance value, this is it."
Christian Punter, HI-FI ADVICE
 
 
Silver Hybrid-S2
Ultra-High Performance Interconnect Cable
Silver Hybrid S2 high performance interconnect cable builds on the breakthrough performance of the Silver Hybrid 2 by employing an improved configuration of conductors which also lowers impedance. This has the effect of increasing Dynamics, particularly in the bass. In comparison to the Silver Hybrid, music played through this higher model seems more effortless, natural and present.
 
Some Origin Live cables are unique in the way they address the problem of tonal imbalances within a cable. This is not an easy concept to understand in theory and even harder to eliminate in practice. Due to capacitance and other factors, cables can seem to exhibit a sound like mechanical “ringing” which gives prominence to certain frequencies. The effects are to cause blurring and tonal imbalance. For example, bass notes are prevented from dropping deep in the way you know they should. The reason may not be because your speakers can’t go deep but because the deep notes are masked by upper mid-range “ringing” in the cable.

A vastly oversimplified illustration to understand the principle of ringing is to consider a flash of lightning in a major storm. Lightening produces a loud roll of thunder. This is the result of air crashing into the atomised lightning gap. The echoes from the landscape then add to the effect we hear as thunder which carries on for longer than the original crashing noise which created it.

When electricity passes through your cables it causes momentary electrical changes within the material analogous to lightning in air. These changes then input a delayed release of electrical energy back into the signal.  This manifests itself audibly by introducing an effect similar to  “ringing” which accentuates certain frequency bands. The effects vary significantly in frequency, magnitude and decay time depending on the cable you use.

interconnect cable conductionWhen you hear thunder you observe two important facts:

Hearing the thunder is delayed from the time you first see the flash.
In a similar way for music, the slight delay time of signal “after effects” changes the “timing” of notes.
A roll of thunder lasts a lot longer than the flash which created it.
In a similar way for music, any ongoing electrical after effects causes blurring and reduces clarity.
Through observation and intensive research, Origin Live has found a unique way to dramatically reduce these effects. The results are astonishing with major improvements to clarity and tonal qualities in the music.

Electrical “after effects” are not to be confused with mechanical resonance which many cable manufacturers refer to. Mechanical resonance causes conductors to vibrate microscopically against one another – this also degrades signal quality because it interrupts the electromagnetic field consistency around each conducting strand. 25 years ago Hitachi promoted high-pressure binding of stranded cable to reduce this effect – nowadays some ideas (among many) include adding clamps and cable risers to slightly dampen such effects.
 
MAKING THE BEST CHOICE
With over 300 brands of cable now available it’s not easy to be sure of the right choice. At Origin Live we test and evaluate many published ideas along with our own research. Our reputation for producing outstandingly musical and high-performance products is a significant indicator that our cables are second to none. They certainly rank among the very best and offer outstanding value at a fraction of the price.

No-Risk Trial
All our cables come with a one-month money-back guarantee if ordered directly from Origin Live ( some dealers may offer the same). This means you can try them in your own system without risk. If not absolutely delighted simply return them for a full refund.

We have received highly favourable reviews on our cables dating back to the first cable product launched over 34 years ago. and pour an almost insane amount of research into this area.

History
The most significant reason for much of our research is that tonearm performance benefits immensely from exceptional cable quality. Efforts to find other brand cables to include in our top of the range arms have invariably ended up with us designing something better (not copies).

The Origin Live Silver Hybrid external cable (£535) employed in our High-End tonearms has so far outperformed the best alternatives we have tried. Dealers tell us it betters well-known brand cables at £4000.