Tara Labs

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TARA (The Absolute Reference Audio) Labs is a manufacturer of a high-end audio cables from Ashland, Oregon. It's led by president Merrill Bergs. The trademark of Tara Labs is their use of solid wire.

History

The company was born in 1984, when company founder Matthew Bond, trained in physics and electronics theory, was looking for ways to improve the performance of audio components and the wire used within an audio system.

The first cables he designed, the Phase II speaker cable, was a simple solid core design. Twenty years later, the Phase II Speaker Cable is still available through a select group of retailers in the United States. In 1990, TARA Labs introduced the world’s first and only cable ever to have a floating conductor unterminated at one end that would allow for an increased high-frequency bandwidth to be coupled to the signal carrying conductors (US patent No. 5033091). Later, a simple control device inside a box fitted to the cable (The Temporal Continuum) allowed the user to adjust the amount of high frequency energy to be heard.

TARA Labs introduced Rectangular Solid Core cables in 1992. RSC was an extension of the solid core philosophy that the industry had yet to fully embrace. The cables employed solid core conductors with a rectangular cross section. In 1999 Tara Labs introduced the "Zero" interconnect with an Vacuum Dielectric Insulation system (Source).

External links

• Tara Labs website