Most audio cables are coaxial – a wire in the middle for positive and a surrounding shield for ground. There’s not much difference between them. The Melody is different. It’s a coax cable using a center conductor and shield that are optimized for audio quality. It’s going to pass signal between any two pieces of gear without adding irritating distortions in the highest frequencies, or blurring details in the midrange. Recorded voice will more easily convince you it’s real. Percussion will be fast and articulate. If you’re playing guitar the conductive shielding will keep it quiet when you move around or drag it across the floor, and everything your fingers do on the strings will come off the speaker.

The Lyric HG is a reference-level cable that disappears from the signal path. It’s got the right amount of shielding but only to protect your signal from noise -- not to carry your audio signal. The audio is carried by TWO audio-optimized conductors: one for positive and one for negative. This uncommon approach presents your music with much better dynamics. Notes come out of a blacker background for the sense if a higher signal to noise ratio. Dynamics come alive and as many people simply put it, “there’s more there". This semi-balanced design also creates a three-dimensional quality to the music that helps with imaging and a sense of space between on a micro level between individual notes of a chord and a macro level between individual instruments in an ensemble. The Lyric can be run balanced to benefit applications which require it in recording and playback. While a bit on the stiff side, many people who use it with guitar are amazed to hear what their fingers, pick-ups, and amplifiers truly sound like.

The Reveal is much like the Melody but solves the problems associated with strand interaction a different way. Where the Melody uses a single solid-core
conductor to eliminate strand interaction, the Reveal uses a stranded conductor of ultra-high purity copper with an insulative coating on each individual strand. This design approach gives you a cable that’s a serious upgrade over traditional coaxial designs but retains the flexibility and physical handling properties of a typical stranded cable. Great for any single-ended applications for recording, playback or with instruments that will be moved around a bit more. Where the Melody would be great for a lap-steel guitar or upright bass, the Reveal would make better sense for an electric guitar on stage or bass player who wants to crowd surf.

The Forte is quite like the Lyric in that it’s using two audio-optimized conductors for the audio signal and the shield to block noise from entering them. What you hear is more an indication of what other cables take away from the signal path than anything Forte adds to it. Compared with typical cables one could be led to believe that the Forte adds a very slight gain stage to the signal path; in reality other cables are muting information across a range of requencies. The Forte is transparent and neutrally balanced to work why any associated equipment. There is no trying to “match” the right cable for what you’re connecting it to. With the Forte you simply hear your associated equipment and music as it is. A key difference between the Lyric and the Forte is the similar difference between the Melody and Reveal. The negative effects of strand interaction are solved by insulating the individual strands of the conductor instead of using single solid core conductors. What does this mean? Reference-level playback and recording in a flexible and rugged package suitable for any environment.

Evidence Audio was founded by Tony Farinella, who focused on design methodologies in his research lab more than 25 years ago.

His goal was to create cables that would preserve the quality of sound as it passes through electronics. Every cable is designed to “disappear” without imparting its signature on the signal path.

His innovation and next-level thinking continues to deliver precisely engineered products for the best Musicians, Producers, Engineers, Guitar Techs, and Rig Builders Worldwide.

Thank you for listening and keep the music first.