SRX XL Series
A New World Standard
The SRX XL series represents the pinnacle of Synergistic Research’s engineering excellence while delivering the most immersive, realistic, and emotionally engaging sonic presentation we’ve ever achieved. Building on decades of research into electromagnetic phenomena, SRX XL features scaled-up numbers of hand-made air-dielectric pure silver high-current geometries, creating a new world standard for high-conductive pure silver conductors that preserves the soul of your music with unprecedented fidelity. Each cable incorporates an all-new UEF compound applied to advanced matrix shielding that further lowers noise floors while reducing signal transmission restraints, combined with enhanced high voltage conditioning processes that unlock subtle musical nuances and three-dimensional soundstages previously masked by inferior cables. These breakthrough technologies transform SRX’s industry-leading dynamics to entirely new levels while delivering analog-like realism, holographic energy, and musical authenticity that makes your system disappear, leaving only the pure emotional connection between you and the music, all without compromising the flexibility that makes SRX XL easy to install even in tight spaces.
Our comprehensive SRX XL lineup addresses every critical connection in your system with purpose-built solutions for each application’s unique challenges. The flagship Power Cable conquers AC delivery with additional pure silver geometries for components from preamps to power amplifiers, while Analog Interconnects and Speaker Cables utilize refined conductor architectures for transparent signal transmission. Digital Interconnects preserve digital signal integrity and musical soul, while the specialized USB cable eliminates RF contamination and ground loops inherent in computer audio with complete power and signal isolation. The Ethernet cable conquers network streaming complexities with optimized packet integrity and isolation from infrastructure noise, and the Phono cable captures the most delicate cartridge signals with pitch-black backgrounds and harmonic nuance. Hand-crafted in our California factory with our Lifetime Passport Protection Plan offering 70% trade-in value, each SRX XL cable transforms its specific application while contributing to a coherent system voice that brings digital and analog sources to new heights of lifelike realism.
SRX Cable Series Awards
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