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UEF Carbon Elevators lift your cables from the floor as they uplift fundamental aspects of system performance, including low-frequency weight and control, mid-range clarity, and high-frequency extension. Perhaps most dramatic is the effect on your system’s ability to portray soundstage scale with improvements in front to back, side to side, and verticle image placement, all with a greater sense of the sound field wrapping around your listening position. Our first cable elevators were made from aluminum after extensive double-blind listening tests, where aluminum exhibited superior sound quality compared to materials like plexiglass, wood, and ceramic. The material we did not test was Carbon Fiber due to its difficulty cutting and fabricating. Fast forward two years, and we have perfected the use of carbon fiber in SR products, including our state-of-the-art SRX cable loom, Galileo Active Ground Block, Active Ethernet Switch, and MiG SX footers. So we built a set of carbon fiber elevators and compared them to our Aluminum cable risers. We found the same improvements as all SR products using carbon fiber, namely, increased resolution, inner detail, and clarity. The included HFTs (Red Dot visible in photographs) use a new UEF compound first developed for SRX speaker cables and Purple fuses, which enteracts with your cables EM fields for life like soundstage scale with enhanced dynamics and high-frequency extension. Of course, cable elevators are a controversial upgrade for many, so we make it easy to try a set in your system risk-free. Audition in your system, and if you disagree, return them to your dealer for a full refund.

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[H1] SRX XL Power Cable.

We were curious what would happen if we took our highest-performance power cord, the SRX, and scaled up the number of its internal hand-made air-dielectric pure silver high-current geometries. So we added 2 additional pure silver 14 gauge high current geometries and 2 additional pure silver AirString geometries to make our highest gauge power cord entirely over the top where high conductive pure silver conductors in an air dielectric are concerned. Not surprisingly, this took the SRX’s industry-leading dynamics to a whole new level. It also improved nearly all aspects of its performance, including soundstaging, lower noise floor, and increased high-frequency extension with added smoothness for a high-current power cord like no other. We did not, however, expect this to be a new benchmark for all AC applications in a system, from low to moderate-current-demand components like pre-amps and DACs to high-current-demand components like power amplifiers and our PowerCell line conditioners. And we accomplished a new benchmark in performance without compromising SRX XL‘s flexibility, so it’s easy to connect, even in tight spaces, like behind your rack or furniture. To discover how transformational this new power cord is, audition SRX XL your system today. And if you already have a complete loom of SRX power cords in your system, ask your dealer or distributor how you can take advantage of our Lifetime Passport Protection Plan, where you receive a 70% trade-in allowance for your existing SRX power cords toward a new loom of SRX XL power cords. Of course, you can audition risk-free to gauge the improvements these exceptional power cords can affect in your system.
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[H1] What’s Inside?

Additional SR25 technologies include a pure silver Ground Plane that can be connected to our Active Ground Block for a lower noise floor and added holographic sound staging and dynamic impact and a Swiss Made power supply developed to optimize the pure silver EM Cells. SRX XL has the exact same wall and IEC connectors developed for the SR25 made from Carbon Fiber and special Rhodium contacts selected in blind listening tests for their perfect sonic balance within the sound of the cable itself. Each SRX XL power cord comes with two carbon fiber UEF Tuning Modules specially voiced for the SRX series so you can strike the perfect balance between detail and musicality for your system. To voice SRX to your system listen to the Gold (warm) and the Silver (detail) bullet and select the option that makes music in your system. Needless to say, this is the most holographic, lowest noise floor and dynamic and musical power cord in our line-up. This power cord is exceptionally well suited for use with our PowerCell 12SE line conditioner as just one SRX can improve the performance of your PowerCell and this improves every connected component in your system.

[H2] SRX + Master Carbon Cable Tuning Modules
[H1] Redefining Refinement

Now with Master Tuning Modules ($850/pair MSRP). SRX Cables come standard with the most potent and musical UEF Tuning Bullets in our company’s 30-year history and work 100% outside the signal path. Both Gold and Silver bullets are handcrafted in our Southern California Factory from carbon fiber and aircraft aluminum with the Gold option plated in 24k Gold not only for aesthetic beauty but also to help voice the bullet to its intended role as the most musical option for specific systems. To use SRX Carbon Fiber Tuning Modules, allow your SRX cables to settle into your system for 48-72 hours, and then experiment with your two options on a cable by cable basis. Start by inserting a Gold Bullet and then compare to the Silver option and select the variant that makes music in your system. Gold Bullets have a warm and liquid balance that is also more open and transparent than our other warm-biased tuning bullets. While Silver is more extended and detailed but the option that will work best and sound neutral is totally system dependent. If you voice your SRX cables one pair at a time, you will find one color that works best in most applications, plus a few that perform better with the alternate option. This process is how you will get the best from both Gold and Silver bullets when arriving at a bespoke cable loom voiced for your unique system.

[H2] Master Tuning Module’s Sonic Characteristics:
Greater Air and Detail
Musicality
Liquid Smoothness
[H2] Gold Tuning Module’s Sonic Characteristics:
Greater Musicality
Greater Liquid Smoothness
Air and Detail

[H2] Active Electromagnetic Cell
[H1] A Cable…and a Power Conditioner.

[H2] UEF Ground Plane
[H1] UEF Ground Plane.

[H2] SRX Carbon fiber connectors
[H1] SR25 Rhodium Carbon connectors.

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[H2] SRX XL for PowerCell 12 UEF
[H1] Unequaled Power.

[H1] SRX XL AC Cable specifications:

[H2] MSRP
[H2] $15,500 / 6ft.
[H2] $1,700 per addl. foot

[H2] Construction:
Each SRX XL AC Power Cable is made from 14 seperate power cables – 6 each High Current Pure Solid Silver Strings, 4 Pure Silver Air Strings, 2 each Pure Silver Air Ribbons, 1 each Pure Copper Mesh Ground Plane, 1 each Pure Copper Active Shield.
[H2]  Dimensions:
Standard 6 and 8 ft. lengths
[H2] 6 each 14 awg. 99.9999% Pure Silver High Current:
Dielectric: PTFE Air (Sealed)
Shielding: Active Shielding Technology
Geometry: 2 Channel
Listened to determine signal direction before build
[H2]  4 Each Silver Air String:
Silver Air Strings: 99.9999% pure mono crystal silver conductor
Dielectric: PTFE Air (sealed)
Shielding: Active Shielding Technology
Geometry: 2 Channel
Listened to determine signal direction before build
[H2] 2 each Pure Silver Air Ribbons :
99.9999% pure silver conductor
Dielectric: PTFE Air (sealed)
Shielding: Active Shielding Technology
Geometry: 2 Channel
Listened to determine signal direction before build
[H2] 1 each Pure Copper Ground Mesh :
UEF Ground Plane Technology
36 square inches per 6 ft. length
[H2] Shielding :
UEF Active Shielding 3rd generation,
UEF Active EM Cell
Swiss Made Power Supply
SR Quantum Capacitors
Point to Point Wiring
Silver Solder 4%
[H2] Quantum Tunneling:
Custom
[H2] 5 Day burn in :
3 Step process
[H2] Voltage and current rating :
US: 20amp/125v
International (EU/AU/UK): 16amp/250v
[H2] Shielding :
UEF Active Shielding 3rd generation,
[H2] 2 each SR 25 UEF Folded Electro-Magnetic Cells:
Pure Copper Foils
UEF: Graphene treated pcb
Dielectric: PTFE
Shielding: Active Shielding Technology
Housing: Carbon Fiber Cylinder
[H2] 1 each SR 25 Active Shielding UEF Cell:
Modified Swiss-made DC bias Power Supply
UEF: Graphene treated pcb
SR Quantum Capacitors
Dielectric: PTFE
Shielding: Ground Plane Technology
Housing: Carbon Fiber Cylinder
[H2] 2 each SR 25 UEF Ground Plane:
Pure Copper Foils
UEF Graphene
Dielectric: PTFE
Conductive Carbon Fiber Ground Sleeve
[H2] 1 each Black SR25 UEF Active Module:
Completes Active bias circuit
[H2] 1 each Gold SR25 UEF Tuning Passive Module:
Optional voicing for increased warmth, liquidity
[H2] 1 each Silver SR25 UEF Tuning Passive Module:
Optional voicing for maximum information and refinement.
[H2] Connectors:
Connector Input US: 1 each Synergistic Research G08 Pure Rhodium
Connector Input Int’l: 1 each Synergistic Research G08 Pure Rhodium Schuko
Connector Output US: Synergistic Research G08 Pure Rhodium IEC 15 amp and 20 amp connectors
Connector Output Int’l: Synergistic Research G08 Pure Rhodium IEC 15 amp and 20 amp connectors
[H2]  Build Notes:
36 point-to-point hand soldered connections
Hand laminated layers of Silver Ribbon, PTFE Film and Copper mesh
Folded Hot and Neutral Electro-Magnetic Cells added before Power Supply
UEF Ground Plane Sleeve added to EM Cells
Additional UEF Ground Plane added to power supply
SR25 UEF Treatment: UEF with Graphene added to entire cable
1 Termination for SR25 Active Tuning Module (Black)
1 Termination for SR25 UEF Passive Tuning Modules (Gold and Silver)
Silver Solder: 4%
Quantum Tunneling: Before the Active power supply is incorporated all connections and cabling are treated with 1,000,000 volts of electricity at specific frequencies and pulse modulations, creating a canal in the conductor material and contact points at the molecular level that lets electrons to flow more freely. This also allows the “Active Shielding” to work more efficiently yielding the maximum amount of low level information through the conductors and provides for the highest amount of realism in your music
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100% Hand Crafted in our California factory

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[H1] SRX Cable Series Reviews

[They are] exceedingly realistic sounding, capable (with the best sources) of fooling you into thinking you are in the presence of actual musicians. Not only do they reproduce timbre with lifelike density; they also reproduce the dynamic/harmonic envelope (from starting transient through steady-state tone to decay) with lifelike duration, without adding, for instance, “zip” or ringing to hard transients, sibilance to frictatives of higher pitch or amplitude, or smearing to decays. This is the very essence of “completeness”—and the reason why you can not just readily visualize singers like Sinatra on Sinatra at the Sands through both wires; you can also tell the way he is using his mic (like that geisha fan he compared it to) to shape, punctuate, and convey the emotional power of his delivery.
[They] are superb imagers and soundstagers; [they] reproduce the dynamic range of recordings with high accuracy; [they] are astonishingly realistic sounding with great tapes, LPs, and streams; and both lower noises and colorations to unprecedented levels.
So…where does that leave you?
Well, to begin with you’ve got to be rich to afford either one of these extraordinary looms of wire. However, for what it is worth, SRX is a good deal less expensive than Da Vinci (e.g., an eight-foot pair of SRX speaker cable costs $29,995; a two-meter pair of Da Vinci speaker cable is a staggering $46,500). If a $16.5k difference means anything to you (and if it doesn’t, my congratulations), then I’d certainly opt for the SRX.
Jonathan Valin, The Absolute Sound, Jan 2023
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Once connected to my Powercell and burned in for just over a week, I sat down and listened to my standard digital file set list for an initial evaluation. I have been using this group of tracks for well over five years and without much change.  Typically, I bounce through the first dozen or so just to get a feel for what to expect. This time, I was immediately locked into each track from beginning to end and without interruption for several hours of listening. I cannot remember this ever happening before.
Why? Well, I could talk about the deeper blacker noise floor, the expansion of the sound stage in all directions, the holographic pinpoint imaging, and the rich full bodied textures, but there was something so fundamentally different with the SRX in place that I could just not skip through the music as usual"
....The Synergistic Research SRX power cord has me rethinking my entire system configuration and performance. When only one SRX power cord was used with the Synergistic Research PowerCell 12 UEF SE power conditioner to drive my entire system there was a clear correctness of presentation that had not previously been realized. I can only imagine what might happen if I used the SRX for all my components! Caveat emptor. Never say never. If you audition the SRX, you may never go back.
Robert Youman, Positive Feedback, August 2019
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Synergistic Research’s complex and difficult-to-manufacture SR25 Limited Edition power cord so stunningly demonstrates the relationship between high-quality power and high-quality sound that it may represent the apotheosis of power-cord design. When I said that the SR25 transformed virtually every aspect of my system’s sound, I wasn’t exaggerating. It was difficult to believe that these improvements were caused by a single power cord, or that my system already contained a high-end power conditioner and cords. Once again, Ted Denney has proven that the simplest circuit is not necessarily the best sounding. Twenty large -- enough to buy a new Honda Civic -- is a very great deal to pay for a power cord, and most can’t pay it at all. The audiophile masses will take solace in the technologies that I hope will eventually trickle down from the SR25.
Can a $20,000 power cord constitute a bargain? It can, if it delivers a greater improvement in sound than you’d get from spending an extra $20,000 on, say, a six-figure power amp. However, expanding on Ted Denny’s point that a power conditioner can feed every active device in an audio system, I recommend starting with Synergistic’s PowerCell 12 UEF SE conditioner ($6495/120V), which provides the most bang for the buck. But if you choose to forgo the kids’ college educations for the silver-laden SR25, be prepared to experience what could very well be the state of the art of power delivery.
Howard Kneller, Soun

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[H4] Galileo LUX
[H1] Power Cables

The Galileo LUX power cables extend the loom’s design language with the same dual-geometry foundation: a pure silver ribbon laminate for tonal richness and harmonic density, paired with strategically gauged pure 6N silver monofilament conductors suspended in an air dielectric for speed, clarity, and effortless resolution. This architecture establishes the composure and liquidity that define the LUX experience, even before the first note is played.
Where the interconnects and speaker cables achieve their balance through asymmetric internal voicing, the Galileo LUX power cables offer the listener a more personal level of refinement. Each cord is designed to be user-voiced, allowing warmth, liquidity, air, and inner detail to settle into the proportion that best suits the system and the listener’s taste. This is not tuning for effect—it is tuning for alignment, shaping the electromagnetic field at the point where the component meets the AC supply.
Because the power cable sets the field conditions for the entire signal chain, its voicing becomes the foundation upon which the rest of the system organizes itself. Interconnects—analog or digital—and speaker cables naturally follow the harmonic and spatial balance created at the power interface.
Voice the power cord, and you have voiced all the cables associated with that component.
The system locks into coherence, the presentation stabilizes, and the music takes on the effortless flow and graceful clarity that define Galileo LUX.
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[H1] Galileo Series Awards

[H2] UEF Matrix Shield with Graphene
[H1] Galileo Lux Matrix Shielding

In our journey to voice Galileo Lux, we developed a new UEF compound to bring our Matrix Shielding into alignment with the loom’s core intent: to balance resolution with musicality while lowering the noise floor and easing the subtle constraints that shielding can place on signal flow. This next-generation formulation, derived from the SRX XL series, is applied to Galileo Lux in its intended expression, ensuring that the shielding contributes not only to quiet backgrounds, but also to the effortless, unrestrained presentation that defines the Lux experience.

[H2] Enhanced Cable Geometries
[H1] 6N Pure Silver Airstrings, DC Biased Silver Ribbon Laminate

While voicing Galileo Lux, we applied the same disciplined approach used in our flagship SRX XL power cords—employing pure silver in both the ribbon laminate and the multi-gauge AirString conductors for their superior conductivity, low energy storage, and natural harmonic integrity. Within this architecture, the ribbon laminate incorporates a dedicated DC layer in which two pure silver ribbons—one positive and one neutral—work together to stabilize the AC’s electromagnetic field while directing high-frequency noise to ground where it belongs, preventing it from riding on the AC and interacting with the signal. This structure forms a flexible EM Cell based on our patented technology, creating a more coherent field environment for the signal to propagate. The result is a cable that delivers speed, texture, and tonal refinement with the quiet, assured stability that defines the Galileo Lux experience.

[H2] Quantum Tunneling
[H1] High Voltage Conditioning

Our High Voltage Conditioning refines the electromagnetic environment in which a cable operates. Rather than altering the conductor itself, the process stabilizes the dielectric-conductor interface by releasing trapped charge and settling microscopic domains. This reduces noise, lowers hysteresis, and creates a cleaner, more coherent boundary for the electromagnetic field to propagate. Galileo LUX receives the most advanced form of this process, with a conditioning curve reworked to deliver its precise combination of resolution, ease, and musical flow.

[H2] SRX + Master Carbon Cable Tuning Modules
[H1] Redefining Refinement

The Galileo LUX tuning modules shape performance by influencing the electromagnetic field surrounding the cable—not the signal path itself. In a field-propagation framework, the signal is carried in the space around the conductor, guided by the boundaries formed by the conductor, dielectric, and shield. Small changes in this surrounding field can shift how energy launches, settles, and decays within the cable, subtly altering the balance of warmth, liquidity, air, and detail.
Each tuning module introduces a different UEF-defined field condition, adjusting dielectric polarization and the boundary-layer behavior that governs EM propagation. These changes affect how the field interacts with adjacent surfaces and components, reducing microscopic turbulence and altering how harmonics develop within the system. The result is a refined way to set the tonal and spatial equilibrium without ever touching the signal itself.
One module creates a field that is slightly more open and extended, encouraging greater resolution and spaciousness; the other settles the environment into a warmer, more liquid state with enhanced harmonic density. Neither option imposes itself—they simply guide the boundaries through which the signal travels, allowing the system to express the version of Galileo LUX that feels most natural in your room, with your components, and with your listening preferences.
This is field tuning executed with precision: a calm, intentional way to bring the entire system into balance through the quiet influence of the EM environment—fully aligned with the design philosophy of Galileo LUX.
[H2] Master Tuning Module’s Sonic Characteristics:
Greater Air and Detail
Precision
Linearity
[H2] Gold Tuning Module’s Sonic Characteristics:
Musicality
Liquid Smoothness
Air and Detail Balanced With Warmth

[H4] Galileo LUX
[H1] Power Cable Specifications

[H2] MSRP
[H2] $10,495 / 5ft
[H2] $1,750 per additional ft

[H2] Construction:
Each Galileo Lux AC Power Cable is made from 8 separate power cables — 4 each High Current Pure Solid Silver Strings, 2 Pure Silver Air Strings, 2 each Pure Silver Ribbon Air Strings, 1 each Pure Copper Mesh Ground Plane, 1 each Pure Copper Active Shield.
[H2] Dimensions:
Standard 5 ft. & 8 ft. lengths
[H2] 2 each 14 awg. 99.9999% Pure Silver High Current:
Dielectric: PTFE Air (Sealed)
Shielding: Active Shielding Technology
Geometry: 2 Channel
Listened to determine signal direction before build
[H2] 2 each 18 awg. 99.9999% Pure Silver High Current:
Dielectric: PTFE Air (Sealed)
Shielding: Active Shielding Technology
Geometry: 2 Channel
Listened to determine signal direction before build
[H2] 2 Each Silver Air String:
Silver Air Strings: 99.9999% pure mono crystal silver conductor
Dielectric: PTFE Air (sealed)
Shielding: Active Shielding Technology
Geometry: 2 Channel
Listened to determine signal direction before build
[H2] 2 each Pure Silver Ribbon Air Strings:
99.9999% pure silver conductor
Dielectric: PTFE Air (sealed)
Shielding: Active Shielding Technology
Geometry: 2 Channel
Listened to determine signal direction before build
[H2] 1 each Pure Copper Ground Mesh:
UEF Ground Plane Technology
36 square inches per 6 ft. length
[H2] Shielding:
UEF Active Shielding 3rd generation
UEF Active EM Cell
Swiss Made Power Supply
SR Quantum Capacitors
Point to Point Wiring
Silver Solder 4%
Hand crafted in our California factory

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[H2] Schuko
[H2] CEE 7/7 (Type F)

[H2] United Kingdom
[H2] (Type G)

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[H2] Australian
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[H1] Galileo Series Reviews

According to Ted, yours truly played a part in the voicing of the Galileo UEFs, at least to this extent: After all these years Denney has a pretty good idea of the timbral and dynamic balance I prefer and he made an effort (or so he tells me) to engineer higher energy, higher resolution, and more neutral timbre into the UEFs. As you can already gather from what I’ve written he has succeeded beyond expectation. This is simply the most neutral (least darkly colored), most faithful to sources, highest resolution, most dynamic, and, given the right source material, most realistic-sounding wire he’s built. Voices and instruments aren’t just unmistakably “right” in timbre, pitch, duration, and dynamic; they also have the lifelike bloom that you hear listening to real instruments being played in a club or a concert hall—the “action” that turns (in HP’s famous paraphrase) painted ships upon a painted ocean into three-dimensional semblances of real-life instruments making real-life music.
Jonathan Valin, The Absolute Sound, Sept. 2018
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Along with the SRX power cords, Andy also sent me a Galileo SX Ethernet cable to try between my router and the Aurender N10. I was using an off the shelf inexpensive Cat 5 Ethernet cable that came with some home router hardware (I know, sacrilegious at the very least). I also experimented with the Audioquest Vodka ($339/1.0M) and Nordost Heimdall II ($699/1.0M). Both were clear upgrades from the standard Cat 5, but neither persuaded me to use either Tidal or Qobuz for serious listening.
The Galileo SX Ethernet Cable ($2995 /1.0M) was a different story. Yes, based on MSRP alone, this is not a fair apples to apples comparison, but the differences were substantial. For a more detailed description of the sound, you can check out my earlier Galileo SX review that included interconnects, speaker cable, and power cords (HERE). The difference that the Galileo SX Ethernet cable can make was relatively the same as the other cables described in the review. I am sure that most are not surprised, but the bottom line here is that cable quality can make a difference—even for streaming, and even for Ethernet cable! I am now digging deep on Tidal and Qobuz, and just for the record, I am greatly satisfied by both!
Robert Youman, Positive Feedback, August 2019
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“This was my first exposure to the new Synergistic Research Galileo SX phono cable. This $5,000 phono cable has transformed my analog playback, something I would have sworn was already exceptional. Am I finally hearing all that my VPI Scoutmaster is capable of? It feels like it, which is why I think the SX is the finest phono cable I have ever heard. I’m unapologetically a fan of Synergistic Research designs, but this may be the best thing they have ever done. It’s that good.
Now, I am addicted to this newish analog rig. I go down to my first-floor listening room every Saturday and Sunday and listen to jazz, rock, and classical music. What I am now hearing, every time I pull out an old favorite, is more musical information. I am hearing new things going on in the background. It’s mesmerizing.
It’s not a bold claim to say that this cable handily meets my four conditions, so let me go farther: the Synergistic Research Galileo SX is the clearest, most musical phono cable I have ever used in my reference system. Beyond expectation, this cable has transformed my analog playback. It is my new reference for what my record player is capable of, and as such, it earns my highest recommendation.”
Lee Scoggins, Part-time Audiophile, September 2019
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The Galileo SXes are indeed audio’s Ferrari Monzas. No other cable I know of is fully competitive with them on any of their strengths: imaging, transparency, speed, leading edges, detail, noise reduction, dynamics. But don’t let my infatuation with their technical prowess diminish what seems to be these cables’ raison d’être: the reproduction of music. They offered musicality in spades, and on several occasions got me up off my couch and dancing. In “Love Reign O’er Me,” they conveyed Bettye LaVette’s emotional intensity to the point that I wanted to cry. Listening to Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” with the lights low, I felt as if I were on a futuristic set from Blade Runner. These cables should appeal equally to your heart and mind.
Howard Kneller – Soundstage Ultra – April 2019
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The design advantages provided by the implementation of an internal Active EM Cell, the ability to directly ground the Active EM Cell, and a new developed UEF Matrix Shielding were clearly demonstrated during the review. The approach taken by SR to conduct double-blind trials and selecting the preferred UEF technology based on the emotional connection to the music as one listens proved to be highly successful and validated repeatedly in my listening room.  In similar fashion to how the SR Active Grounding Block SE performed in my system, the resulting lower noise floor and frequency uniformity delivered by the Galileo SX AC power cables have allowed me to listen to music at lower volumes without loss of detail, silence between notes, and dynamics.  With the Galileo SX cables, it’s much easier to become emotionally connected to the music on many levels.
Mike Girardi, Stereo Times, March 2019
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2017 Cable of the Year
JV has heard a lot of Synergistic Research cable over the years, but Ted Denney’s latest creation, the Galileo UEF, is quite simply the best wire Mr.D has yet designed- better even than the original Galileo, which cost four times as much.  Although it is still a bit of a pain to use – because of the various grounding connections required – Galileo UEF is far less of a pain than previous SR wires, simply because the dielectric biasing circuit is built into each cable. (No more wall-wart power supplies stuck in every outlet and power strip of your home.) More importantly, the UEF marks a dramatic shift in SR sonics, coming far far closer to neutral in balance than the darker-sounding originals, without sacrificing any of the speed, color, resolution, or power-range solidity and slam that SR is famous for.  A genuine breakthrough for Denney and Co., a relatively good deal compared to some of the six- and seven-figure competition, and a shoo-in for TAS’ 2017 Cable and Interconnect of the Year Aware.

I was guided by Andy Wiederspahn, who suggested that the most immediate changes to the system could be had by a combination of the Galileo Discovery ethernet cable a