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Canare

Canare makes audio and video cabling in Japan. Its cables are represented both in a studio-monitor installation and in a restored vintage-speaker system.

Design & approach

Canare develops cable, connectors, patching and transmission equipment for audio and video. Its contribution to a venue is often the infrastructure between visible components. That should be credited precisely as wiring or connectivity, without attributing the design of the loudspeakers or electronics to the cable supplier.

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Venue equipment records, including their original model uncertainties. Shared-system entries retain the full recorded context.

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Berlin / Germany

Rhinoçéros ↗

Equipment in use

Canare cables connect the vintage Altec loudspeakers to amplification. The record distinguishes them from the Belden wiring used inside the cabinets.

  • Speaker wiring: Belden internal wiring; Canare amplifier cables (Belden / Canare)

Inside the system

Rhinoçéros uses an Altec Voice of the Theatre A7 system: a 416A/828 bass section, 808 compression driver with aluminium diaphragm and a 511 horn, in a 16 Ω configuration. Werner Jagusch speaker-level autoformer crossovers and JBL 2405 supertweeters are important additions to the loudspeaker assembly. Thöress F2A11 amplification and a Thöress phono equalizer accompany a Micro-Seiki DQX-500 with Audio-Technica VM740ML and VM750SH cartridge options. Belden internal wiring and Canare amplifier cables complete a system in which the crossover and supplementary tweeters are as significant as the original Altec components.

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Bucharest / Romania

Bar Ton ↗

Equipment in use

Bar Ton lists Canare in its room / acoustics setup. The equipment details below reflect the venue record.

  • Cabling: Shielded copper cables

Inside the system

Large active Genelec 1039A and 1038BC monitors anchor BAR•TON’s studio-derived system. A room-within-a-room approach integrates acoustic treatment into the construction, making the enclosure around the listeners part of the installation. Technics SL-1200 MK4 turntables and two restored Akai GX-F71 cassette decks provide analogue sources. Headphone electronics rotate among Cambridge Audio, SMSL and Beyerdynamic, with Canare shielded copper cabling. The emphasis is on monitor-based playback and several ways to hear physical media.

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