Chord Company Signature XL

About this product

We are offering for sale a pair of Chord Company Signature XL Previously Owned Speaker Cable (1.5m length) which was originally purchased from our showroom on 06.03.21. The product is in excellent condition and supplied with the original packaging. The reason for the sale is that the current owner is now listening to music via headphones.

Finish: Black
Serial Number: b2396
Date Received: 06/03/2021
Condition: Unmarked
Packaging: Yes
Accessories: N/A
Delivery Options: In-store collection. Delivery available (ask for details).
Warranty: 12 months
New Price: £900
Saving: £400
Sale Price: £500

The Chord Company’s Signature XL is the latest version of one of Chord’s longest running (and universally loved) products. The original Signature was Chord’s first high-frequency shielded speaker cable (2004) and marked a massive leap in speaker cable performance.

It was also the biggest, stiffest, brightest cable Chord ever made. The conductors were oxygen free copper, the insulation was gas foamed Polyethylene, Shielding was a three layer braid and foil combination, effective to high frequencies and the outer jacket a flexible polyethylene. It was just flexible enough to fit into a system. It didn’t need a press release or a review, it took off so fast by word of mouth, that for a while there was almost a permanent waiting list.

It remained unchanged for about ten years, until we could apply improved building techniques and materials such as more efficient shielding, silver-plated conductors and PTFE insulation that would produce a more neutral tonal characteristic and a cable better able to carry detail, dynamics and timbre. This became Signature Reference.

Signature Reference, like most of Chord’s cables, used PTFE insulation (often referred to as Teflon™) and until the arrival of Taylon®, was our “go to” material. Although expensive, it offered the best performance.

Material technology is constantly developing and improving and alternatives to PTFE are now available. While the high cost of Taylon® prevents us from using this in Chord’s Signature range, Chord were able to find a suitable family of insulation materials known as XLPE (Cross-linked Polyethylene). One version of this material looked particularly interesting and following listening tests, proved to be clearly better than the PTFE in Signature Reference.

Technical Specifications 

Conductor: Silver-plated, high purity OFC
Insulation: XLPE
Configuration: Twisted pair
Shielding: Individually shielded positive and minus conductors. High density foil and 95% coverage metal braid. Translucent PVC outer jacket
AWG: 10
mm2: 5.26
Diameter: 2 x 8.5mm