About Matthew Bond Audio
High-End Audio Innovations
Matthew Bond Audio
For over 40 years… the choice of discerning audiophiles, magazine reviewers, a roster of A-List musicians, and Carnegie Hall. And now Matthew Bond yet again defines the state-of-the-art in audio cable design.
4+ Decades of Innovation
1978 – First use of solid core copper for audio.
1979 – Listening tests of solid core conductors of different gauge sizes reveal that larger gauge conductors sound rolled-off in the high frequencies.
1980 – In listening to stranded Monster cable and later Supra cable versus solid core copper, there was a distinct audible difference. Popular multi-stranded cables sounded muffled and rolled-off in high frequencies.
1981 – Listening tests of different dielectric (insulation) materials compared to uninsulated conductors of the same conductor material and gauge.
1982 – Invention of air dielectric interconnects and speaker cables.
1983 – The Phase 2 speaker cable featuring 2 phase coherent solid core conductors.
1984 – Founding of ARAL (Absolute Reference Audio Labs).
1985 – Invention and listening tests of different shielding methods for interconnect cables, leading to the development of floating shield and floating ground stations (RF/EMI energy in the shield is not connected to circuit ground).
1987 – ARAL becomes known as TARA Labs.
1988 – January CES Show: Met Dick Olsher and submitted Phase 2 speaker cable for review.
July: Rave review in Stereophile calling Phase 2 “… a triumph of solid core technology,” dismissing multi-stranded competitors.
1989 – The TFA Return (Transonic Frequencies Aligned): A remarkable invention using a third conductor, floating at one end and twisted/aligned with the negative run of the Phase 2 cable. Adds in-phase HF bandwidth as the TFA conductor acts as a seamless high pass filter.
Development of the Temporal Continuum, a variable TFA conductor.
1992 – Experimenting and listening to rectangular solid core conductors compared to round conductors of the same gauge. Creation of objective measurement system CCZT, which measures rising impedance with frequency in conductors of increasing gauge size.
1994 – Introduction to TARA Labs of floating shields attached to outboard ground stations, isolating RF/EMI energy away from circuit ground.
1996 – Invention of the Air Series using extruded air-tube technology with rectangular solid core conductors set in smaller channels within the air-tube.
1998 – Invention of the vacuum dielectric Zero interconnect.
2000 – Invention of the landmark Omega speaker cable.
2010 and Later – Invention of the flexible Zero Evolution interconnect and Omega speaker cable for TARA Labs. Design and invention of the dual-mono floating ground station.
2016 – Present
The Founding of Matthew Bond Audio: The invention of the finest speaker cables and interconnect cables ever developed, eclipsing all previous audio cables for TARA Labs, along with all other high-end audio cable products.