SRX XL
Ethernet
Network audio streaming introduces challenges beyond traditional digital transmission—managing packet-based data flow while isolating your audio signal from the electromagnetic contamination inherent in routers, modems, and network switches. Building on our flagship SRX XL technologies, the SRX XL Ethernet cable conquers these network complexities with revolutionary engineering specifically designed for high-performance audio streaming applications. Our all-new UEF compound applied to advanced matrix shielding provides exceptional isolation from network infrastructure noise while refined pure silver conductor geometries ensure pristine packet integrity across longer cable runs and multiple connection points. We’ve optimized the hand-made air-dielectric pure silver conductors with strategic spacing that maintains signal clarity through the bidirectional communication demands of modern streaming, preserving timing accuracy and eliminating the data errors that compromise musical reproduction. The SRX XL Ethernet doesn’t just connect your streamer to your network—it creates a dedicated pathway for musical information to flow uncontaminated from source to destination. Every cable undergoes our enhanced high voltage conditioning process, delivering network audio with unprecedented clarity and freedom from the noise artifacts that plague standard Ethernet connections. As the perfect companion to our Network Switch UEF and Ethernet Switch UEF Mk II, the SRX XL Ethernet completes a holistic approach to network audio optimization. The result is streaming audio that reveals the full potential of high-resolution services and your digital library while eliminating network-induced jitter, noise, and timing errors, unlocking new levels of dynamics, soundstaging, and musical authenticity that brings network audio streaming to new heights of analog-like realism.
Discover how transformational the new SRX XL Ethernet is and audition it in your system today. Whether streaming from Tidal, Qobuz, or your personal server, experience how this cable unlocks the musical truth within your network audio sources. And if you already have a complete loom of SRX series cables 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 series cables toward a new loom of SRX XL series. Of course, you can audition risk-free to gauge the improvements these exceptional cables can affect in your system.
SRX Cable Series Awards
Enhanced Cable Geometries
6N Pure Silver Airstrings, Multiplied
While voicing the SRX XL, we developed more comprehensive cable geometries with additional 99.9995% Pure Silver Air Strings. In doing so, music is portrayed with more immediacy and resolution, improving upon dynamics and transient response in a completely non-fatiguing way.
UEF Matrix Shield with Graphene
SRX XL Matrix Shielding
In our journey to design our latest flagship SRX XL series, we developed an entirely new UEF compound to elevate the performance of our previous Matrix Shielding, which further lowers each cable's noise floor while lessening restraints a shield may have on signal transmission. We apply this highest level of shielding to our new SRX XL cables for a significant jump in performance over the standard SX. SRX and Master Tuning Bullets developed for the SRX series cables further refines and enhances the loom's ability to cancel noise that would otherwise cause high frequencies to sound harsh or fatiguing.
SRX + Master Carbon Cable Tuning Modules
Redefining Refinement
SRX XL cables come standard with the most potent and musical SRX Master and Gold carbon fiber UEF Tuning Bullets in our company’s 30-year history. The bullets are specially voiced for the SRX cable series so you can strike the perfect balance between detail and musicality for your system. Both Gold and Master bullets are handcrafted in our Southern California Factory from carbon fiber and aircraft aluminum, with the Gold bullet 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 Master 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 Master 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 Master bullets when arriving at a bespoke cable loom voiced for your unique system. Note, UEF Tuning Bullets work 100% outside the signal path!
Master Tuning Module’s Sonic Characteristics:
- Greater Air and Detail
- Musicality
- Liquid Smoothness
Gold Tuning Module’s Sonic Characteristics:
- Greater Musicality
- Greater Liquid Smoothness
- Air and Detail
Quantum Tunneling
SRX XL High Voltage Conditioning
The new SRX XL High Voltage Conditioning is our most advanced process for treating cables with 1,000,000 volts of electricity at specific frequencies and pulse modulations for long durations, creating a canal in the conductor material and contact points at the molecular level that allows electrons to flow more freely. This new process improves upon the SRX High Voltage Conditioning process by employing new extended duration sweeping frequency plots and advancements to our Tesla Coil, resulting in SRX XL cables to sound even more open and accurate than the cables before them.
Optimized Performance
UEF Ground Plane
SRX XL Ethernet cables incorporate the capability to ground your cables to a Synergistic Research Ground Block (sold separately) to elevate the performance even further. Benefits include a noticeable increase in deep bass power and weight, a more holographic sound field, smoother high frequencies with greater extension and ‘air’, a more present and layered mid-range, increased tonal density with an apparent increase in resolution.
SRX XL Ethernet Cable specifications:
MSRP
$8,995 / 1 meter
$1,200 per additional .5 meter
Construction:
2 each 3rd Gen Silver Matrix:
- Silver Matrix Signal conductor: Monocrystalline conductors with copper core
- Dielectric: Solid Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
- Shielding: Silver Braid -Quantum Tunneled Ground Plane Technology
- Listening tests performed for signal direction before build
4 each Silver Air String cables:
- Silver Air Strings: 99.9999% pure monocrystalline silver conductor
- Dielectric: Air (sealed)
- Shielding: UEF Ground Plane Technology
- Hand crafted in our California factory
2 each Medium Gauge Silver DC Air String cables:
- Silver Air Strings: 99.9999% pure monocrystalline silver conductor
- Dielectric: Air (sealed)
- Shielding: UEF Ground Plane Technology
- Hand crafted in our California factory
Shielding :
- SRX XL UEF Shielding
- Point to Point Wiring
- WBT Silver Solder 4%
Quantum Tunneling:
- SRX XL Long Duration - Custom
5 Day burn in :
- 3 Step process
1 each Gold SR25 UEF Tuning Passive Module:
- Optional voicing for increased warmth, liquidity
1 each Silver SR25 UEF Tuning Passive Module:
- Optional voicing for maximum information and refinement.
Build Notes:
- Individual EXP Isolated cable geometries for improved vibrational isolation
- 12 point-to-point hand soldered connections
- SRX UEF Matrix Shielding: 2 different UEF coatings with Graphene are applied to UEF Cell, connectors and cabling and ground significantly reducing the noise floor and allowing a purer signal to transfer with less grain providing more warmth and detail. The conductors and UEF Cell also benefit from dampening effect that UEF provides
- 4 Termination for SRX tuning Module (Silver and Gold)
- WBT Silver Solder: 4%
- Hand build time: 8 hours
- SRX XL Long Duration Quantum Tunneling: After the cable is completely assembled 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 allows electrons to flow more freely. This allows the maximum amount of low level information through the conductors and provides for the highest amount of realism in your music
- Secondary UEF Blue Treatment originally developed for SR Blue Fuses
- 5-day Burn In: 2 step process
- 100% Hand Crafted in our California factory
SR Ground Block (optional):
- To improve performance further still use an optional SR Ground Block with its UEF Ground Filter -or- Active Ground Block to elevate overall system performance; not only can you star ground the shields on SRX XL Ethernet cables to either the passive or ACTIVE Ground Block, but you can also ground all of your system’s components for a dramatic lowering of your system’s noise floor for greater detail, clarity, and musicality.
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
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
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
Howard Kneller, Soundstage Ultra, September 2018