TARA Labs is a manufacturer of a high-end audio cables from Ashland, Oregon

Ashland, Oregon

Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, near Interstate 5 and the California border, and located in the south end of the Rogue Valley. It was named after Ashland County, Ohio, point of origin of Abel Helman and other founders, and secondarily for Ashland, Kentucky, where other...

. It's led by president Merrill Bergs. The trademark of Tara Labs is their use of solid wire.

History

The company was born in 1984, when company founder Matthew Bond, trained in physics and electronics theory, was looking for ways to improve the performance of audio components and the wire used within an audio system.

The first cables he designed, the Phase II speaker cable, was a simple solid core design. Twenty years later, the Phase II Speaker Cable is still available through a select group of retailers in the United States. In 1990, TARA Labs introduced the world’s first and only cable ever to have a floating conductor unterminated at one end that would allow for an increased high-frequency bandwidth to be coupled to the signal carrying conductors (US patent No. 5033091). Later, a simple control device inside a box fitted to the cable (The Temporal Continuum) allowed the user to adjust the amount of high frequency energy to be heard.

TARA Labs introduced Rectangular Solid Core cables in 1992. RSC was an extension of the solid core philosophy that the industry had yet to fully embrace. The cables employed solid core conductors with a rectangular cross section. In 1999 Tara Labs introduced the "Zero" interconnect with an Vacuum

Vacuum

In everyday usage, vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter, such that its gaseous pressure is much less than atmospheric pressure. The word comes from the Latin term for "empty". A perfect vacuum would be one with no particles in it at all, which is impossible to achieve in...

 Dielectric

Dielectric

A dielectric is an electrical insulator that can be polarized by an applied electric field. When a dielectric is placed in an electric field, electric charges do not flow through the material, as in a conductor, but only slightly shift from their average equilibrium positions causing dielectric...

 Insulation

Electrical insulation

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system (Source).