How a TARA Labs cable is made
Watch the film The process of custom hand-crafting cables
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160 hours for a single pair
Building one pair of Omega Evolution speaker cables takes two senior technicians ten eight-hour days. Every cable is evaluated by ear in our sound room before it ships.
- Cut, form and measure Each of the pair’s 576 copper conductors.
- Polish by hand Master technicians hand-polish each conductor.
- Assemble With custom hardware, machined, polished and laser-etched before final assembly.
- Test Point-to-point continuity on Hewlett-Packard and Tektronix analyzers.
- Listen An evaluation by ear before the cable leaves Medford.
TARA Labs cables are made by hand, in the true tradition of high-end craftsmanship. Designed and created by the TARA Labs Design Team (TLDT), led by Merrill Bergs, all TARA Labs audio cables are manufactured in our factory in Southern Oregon, USA, and lifetime guaranteed.
Every TARA Labs high-end audio cable is meticulously hand-crafted by our factory lab technicians. A good example of exactly what goes into this process is the construction of just one pair of our Omega Evolution speaker cables.
The process for manufacturing these cables begins with the cutting, forming, measuring and hand-polishing of each of the 576 TARA Labs copper conductors.
All the dielectrics are prepared including customizing the multiple size air tubes, outer & inner sleeve layers, as well as other proprietary cable components. This includes our custom hardware, all of which has to be machined, polished and laser-etched before final assembly of the product. This would also include all cable terminations. As far as the actual labor to make these cables, it takes two senior technicians working eight-hour days for ten days to make that one pair. That’s a combined 160 hours to make just one pair of our reference-grade speaker cables.
Throughout the process, each cable passes through multiple stringent testing stations to ensure that every aspect of the product meets our rigid standards. TARA Labs uses a variety of specialized testing procedures and equipment, including point-to-point signal continuity testing with Hewlett-Packard and Tektronix spectrum analyzers, to ensure that every cable has the correct specifications.
In the final stage, each cable is listened to and evaluated in our sound room using a wide variety of audio components. The cables are then packaged and shipped all over the world.
