Supernova: Geometric RF Cancellation Through Multi-Path Architecture
Supernova represents our most advanced implementation of Boundary Condition Stabilizer (BCS), using geometric complexity to achieve RF cancellation that simple cable constructions cannot.
The challenge: interconnects between components are particularly vulnerable to RF contamination. They carry low-level signals (millivolts to volts) where even small amounts of RF pickup create audible noise and intermodulation distortion.
Supernova’s solution: 48 independent conductors arranged in a precisely controlled geometry that creates multiple RF propagation paths, causing RF components to arrive out of phase and self-cancel before reaching your equipment.
The Geometry: Controlled Complexity
Supernova’s construction appears complex, because it is. This complexity serves a specific purpose:
48 bare copper conductors arranged in four concentric circles of 12 wires each. These circles are twisted around each other every 4 inches, while individual wires within each circle maintain fixed positions.
Why this matters:
Multiple Path Lengths: RF traveling through the cable encounters 48 different physical paths. Each path has a slightly different length due to the helical twist and radial positioning.
Phase Diversity: At RF frequencies (1-100 MHz), these path length differences become significant fractions of a wavelength. RF components traveling different paths arrive out of phase.
Destructive Interference: Out-of-phase RF components cancel through destructive interference, the same principle used in noise-canceling headphones, but applied to electromagnetic propagation.
Audio Transparency: Audio frequencies (20 Hz – 20 kHz) have wavelengths of 15 km to 15 meters. The path length differences in a 1.5-meter cable are insignificant at audio frequencies—no phase cancellation of audio occurs.
Result: RF is canceled, audio is preserved.
Differential Path Architecture
The four-circle arrangement creates two distinct signal paths with opposing polarities, functioning as a balanced transmission line even in single-ended (RCA) configuration.
Common-mode RF (RF picked up equally by both conductors) appears as differential noise between the signal paths. The opposing polarities cause this common-mode contamination to cancel at the receiving end.
Differential audio signal (the music) passes through unaffected, it’s already differential by design.
This provides common-mode rejection typically available only in balanced (XLR) configurations, even when using RCA connectors.
3D-Printed Precision
Maintaining 48 conductors in precise geometric relationships over 1.5 meters isn’t possible with conventional cable manufacturing.
Supernova uses a 3D-printed skeletal structure, 137 individual parts that position each wire exactly where the geometry requires. This isn’t cosmetic, it’s the only way to maintain the path length relationships that enable RF cancellation.
Each wire sits in a specific position throughout the cable’s length. The twist rate (every 4 inches) is mechanically controlled. The result: repeatable, precise geometry that performs identically cable to cable.
What You’ll Hear
Supernova’s RF cancellation manifests as:
Lower Noise Floor: Background silence, genuinely black, not gray. Low-level detail (hall ambience, string resonance, breath sounds) emerges clearly without being artificially emphasized.
Transient Precision: Attack transients arrive sharper, with less RF-induced rounding. Piano strikes, plucked strings, and percussion have clearer leading edges.
Spatial Stability: Images lock more solidly in the soundstage. Less RF contamination means less ambiguity in spatial cues, instruments occupy specific locations rather than general regions.
Tonal Accuracy: Reduced intermodulation between RF and audio means instruments sound more like themselves, less electronic homogenization.
Dynamic Contrast: The difference between quiet and loud passages increases because the noise floor drops while peaks remain unchanged, this is genuine dynamic range improvement through noise reduction.
These aren’t subjective colorations. They’re the result of preserving what your components actually output by removing cable-induced RF contamination.