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All cables are available for free home demonstration allowing you to assess their suitability with  your own unique system and listening environment without obligation...!

Your only outlay for loan cables will be postage charged at cost.

Alternatively all purchases of standard cables are covered by our 14 day no quibble refund.

Interconnects

The Copper Mine

Our entry level interconnect.... This is a High Quality Interconnect with PC-OCC Single crystal Copper Conductor & noise free silicone insulator.

This interconnect is ideal for budget to mid priced audio systems - also  making it a cost effective cable for high end AV systems and can be produced in any length required.

Do not be fooled by the price . 

This is a true state of the art oxygen free copper interconnect and only 6% less conductive than pure Silver with heavy duty shield for excellent RFI rejection

It comes with a Choice of Terminations and starts from as little as £36 inclusive for a 0.5 metre stereo pair terminated with Teflon insulated Neutrik RCAs (add £6 per subsequent 0.5 metre)

Add £26 for Eichmann Bullets

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The Silver Surfer

 High Quality Interconnect with Silver Plated Oxygen Free Copper Conductor & PTFE Teflon Insulator .

This Interconnect is Ideal for long runs due to very low capacitance 

This Interlink will give an instant and noticeable improvement over cables costing many times its price . 

The Silver Surfer comes with a Choice of Terminations and starts from as little as £50 inclusive for a 0.5 metre stereo pair terminated with Teflon insulated Neutrik RCAs (add £10 per subsequent 0.5 metre)

Add £26 for Eichmann Bullets

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The Alaqeia ...Goddess of Truth 

The Alaqeia Interconnect  has  very  little Sonic Signature .

High Purity Silver Plated Oxygen Free Copper Conductor and PTFE Teflon Insulator ... using a Pseudo Balanced Construction for Superior RFI Rejection -  Also available fully balanced     

Starting at £80  terminated with the excellent Eichmann Bullet plugs ....with full refund if not completely satisfied This Interconnect is extremely competitive regardless of price.

0.5m stereo pair £80 (add £18 per subsequent  0.5 metre)

Loan Cables Available by arrangement .......We dare you to listen....!

E-mail your request to jan@the-missing-link.net.

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The Log-Rhythm MK-2 Phono Interconnect

High performance Interconnect especially designed for moving coil cartridges 

Available with Silver plated SME 5 pin arm termination and Metal bodied Silver Eichmann bullets as standard (suits most arms with removable cable)  Custom terminations by arrangement..

This cable is designed to offer the delicate signal from your phono cartridge the very least intrusive path possible using our latest cryo_ttone™ Cryogenic treatment process...

1.0 metre stereo  interconnect starts at £295 add £64 per half metre..

Need your lead attenuating...? ask for details

The Link Family

The Concept of perfection

 The Link family of audio cables are constructed from the finest materials currently available with the benefit of 5 years of research into cable technology and over 20 years involvement within the electronic and sound engineering industry. With a lifelong passion for the study of physics our specialist designer Mark  Sears  has taken the Link range of cables to the leading edge of cable design. The conductors used in each Link audio cable are extruded from specially produced hyper pure  laboratory grade Silver bullion that has been tested for purity by the Metallurgy Department of Bradford University.  The Silver is then drawn into wire on diamond precision jigs with stringent quality control to ensure there are no imperfections or variations in conductor diameter or in  the mirror surface finish - this is then heat treated and re- annealed to reduce oxygen desolations created during the wire production to  give an improved crystal structure and reduction in Oxygen boundaries.  This highly specialised process was perfected by The Missing Link with the help of electron microscope studies of our post drawn Silver wire. The Silver conductors are then retained in a vacuum sealed atmosphere to avoid any contamination until the gas tight Teflon extrusion is completed with a custom stress reducing push pull extrusion system. The coating thickness is tuned to give the correct impedance and electrical characteristics for the application for which the cable is intended to be used. The cryogenic super cooling treatment is now applied and takes in excess of 12  hours to slowly cool the material so as to avoid any thermal stress -  it is the held at a temperature of – 195 for 3 days to  relieve any stress induced in the cable during the Teflon extrusion process. Our custom produced cable is returned for quality control inspection by ourselves between each process to ensure absolute perfection in every cable….

Below is a picture of one of our  0.5 mm pure Silver conductors after extrusion has taken place. The indentation you can see is 5 microns in diameter and was created by a Vickers microhardness tester.  The formation you see on the surface in the bottom right hand side of the picture is known as annealing twins and is commonly caused by cold working of Silver and Copper  - this can be addressed by further annealing and re-crystallisation with controlled heat treatment for the formation of larger crystals and a reduction in desolations..  Pure Silver will re-crystallise at a very low temperature but to achieve the best results precise control at a specific temperature and a carefully controlled time span is required. This is just one of the many recipe secrets in producing the perfect super conductor.

Research is the key

The picture below  shows  2   prepared samples of pure Silver - one Cryogenically treated and one control sample. This is part of  the research used into the improvement of conductor technology during the development of the Link family of cables. 

The Silver produced for each conductor starts life at a purity of 99.999 -  in samples  taken from cables after production   the Silver  retained a purity of between 99.94 / 99.95 as analysed by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and is accurate to parts per billion. 

When all materials have passed our stringent quality control tests they are very carefully wound into twisted pairs on a custom hand-winding machine ( without the use of electrical motors ) so no stress is induced into the carefully preserved and prepared materials which are  then set in an anti resonant polymer to reduce electromotive forces ready for hand assembly into finished cables.

Attention to the finest detail

The jointing method is another  area of particular importance and to which we pay great attention during the production of Link audio cables - using the most conductive materials on earth the last thing we want to introduce to the perfect signal path is intrusive Lead or Tin based solder which increases the resistance substantially at every joint . In the Missing Link family of cables each joint is carefully crimped to eliminate solder contamination and then a Tin based solder is applied in a very special manner to  add physical strength to the joint without contaminating the connection. Each finished cable is electrically tested on a highly accurate and regularly calibrated  resistance meter that is accurate to 1/10,000 of an Ohm to ensure the assembly is perfect. Finally  each cable receives its unique registration number & signed certificate with is your guarantee of unprecedented British quality and meticulous craftsmanship.

A British company born of passion

We believe the Link family of audio reproduction cables to be of the very highest quality available regardless of cost. They are the result of many years of passion & continuing research by our designer Mark, who's goal it is to create  the very best cables for audio reproduction available today. Mark has a very understated approach and believes that quality speaks for itself. He also has a simple motto on which he has based his company The Missing Link. “Cables based on science not Mythology “ !

Mark has funded numerous joint research programs into the chemical, electrical and physical analysis and evaluation of materials for use in audio cables with Nottingham University BAE systems and also Bradford University's excellent metallurgy department ....his research continues.

Every one of the Missing Link family of cables is individually created at the time of order placement... such high Quality Cables as these that are  built with the greatest attention to the finest detail simply cannot be mass produced.

The Link ..... 

£165 per 0.5 metre stereo pair terminated with Eichmann bullets (add £70 per subsequent 0.5m)

The Link Cryo .... 

£195per 0.5 metre stereo pair terminated with Eichmann bullets (add £80 per subsequent 0.5m) for balaced add £50 add£45 for optional Silver bullets

The Link Cryo Reference ... 

£305 per 0.5 metre stereo pair terminated with Silver Eichmann bullets  ( add £100 per subsequent 0.5m)

Loan Cables are Available in all popular terminations.. Including Naim locking 5 pin... By arrangement ...We believe Quality speaks for Itself....! E-mail your request to jan@the-missing-link.net.

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Balanced LCR with black braid finish

Hi Fi World Reveiw cilck to read.

Digital Interconnects

The Digit  Our entry level  S/PDIF Coaxial true 75 ohm Electrical Digital Interconnect is constructed from PTFE Teflon and Silver plated Oxygen Free  Copper. This cable is well suited to long runs and conforms to RG-179 terminated with minimalist hollow pin Gold plated RCA connectors.. No fuss hand built quality a genuine improvement over many mainstream mid priced digital cables. also suitable for high quality composite AV signals. 

0.5 metre Terminated with minimalist RCA connectors... £45 (add £10 per extra 0.5m) 

The Dark Art S/PDIF Coaxial true 75 ohm Digital Interconnect is constructed from Ptfe Teflon and Silver plated Oxygen Free  Copper with Eichmann Bullets or Silver Plated BNC as standard ….other termination options available on request .

This is a superb digital transmission system that uses a specialized internal construction 

The Dark Art S/PDIF 75 Ohm Digital Interconnect

0.5 metre Terminated with Eichmann Bullets or Neutrik BNC.. £75..00 (add £20 per extra 0.5m)

The Dark Art AES/EBU 110 ohm Balanced Digital Interconnect uses the same Super Fine Silver Plated Oxygen Free Copper Conductor with special attention paid to conductor spacing to ensure a perfect impedance of 110 ohms - this is then finished with true 110 ohm Silver-Plated Neutrik XLR’s making the Perfect Digital Transmission system....  

The Dark Art AES/EBU 110ohm Balanced Digital  Interconnect

 0.5 metre Terminated with True 110 Ohm XLR .. £95..00 (add £35 per extra 0.5m)

Link Cryo Reference Dark Art ( Binary Star) This is our statement Digital cable offering our super  Cryogenically treated Conductors - PTFE Teflon Insulation - Silver Eichmann bullets as standard termination for the RCA version .. True 75 Ohm Reference BNC connectors and genuine 110 Ohm Neutrik XLR for the balanced version. this cable also takes advantage of RFI reducing ferrite technology with the added benefit of the reduction electromagnetic contamination between cables a simple audition will tell you all you need to know.