厳選・吟味の素材

It all starts with materials. Audio is all about “purity and power.” The purity of the material takes precedence over everything else. Even before the Zonotone brand was born, we were focused on the importance of wire materials. We insisted all along on using only carefully selected materials, whether premium copper, like ultra-pure 7NCu (copper with purity of 99.99999%) and ultra-pure 6NCu (99.9999% pure copper), 4N oxygen-free copper wire and silver-plated OFC.

The unrivaled superiority of the DMHC structure = purity + energy + realistic presence.

This is the philosophy behind our original DMHC (Discrete Multi-conductor Helical-parallel Construction). Stereo cable conductors tend to have two cores, hot and cold; but Zonotone DMHC is a multicore conductor. The minimum number of cores is 4, but there are also 5-core × 2 (10 cores total) and 10-core × 2 (20 cores total) products.

As a result, we were able to achieve a brand new hybrid multicore conductor using complex combinations of various wire diameters, materials, and diameter variations. The basic DMHC structure consists of independent multicore conductors arranged cylindrically around a central core, with the plus and minus conductors isolated from each other by means of an insulative dummy material. For speaker cable use, this structure was further advanced to DMHC-Duo/DMHC-Quadri.

We believe this structure to be the best possible structure for reduced inductance and capacitance, for reducing phase distortion, high-frequency or intermodulation distortion, and crosstalk, for improving bandwidth balance and other properties, for suppressing resonance, electromagnetic induction, and vibration, and for preventing energy loss, among the numerous other extremely large benefits.

The secret is its original golden ratio. Based on data gathered over a long time from huge numbers of prototypes and repeated listening, Zonotone conductors are created with an original golden ratio unrivalled in the industry. Far from relying solely on quantitative and coefficient findings from physical and scientific analyses, priority is given to musicality as judged by the ear.

All Zonotone cables are made in Japan. This is also part of the secret to reliability.

A new sound experience made possible by unadulterated transmission. Zonotone cables are “purity and power” with no signal loss. That is why they provide purely transmitted sound.

独自の黄金比・つくり

ゾノトーンの導体は、長い時間をかけ、膨大な試作と試聴の繰り返しによるデータを基に、多の追随を許さぬ独自の黄金比を創出しています。しかし、物理的、科学的分析から得られる定量的、係数学的な解釈だけに頼ることはしません。「耳による音楽性」を何よりも重視しています。