Hand-built in France — usually ships in about 2 weeks.
Richard Cesari compares building an AES/EBU cable to following a recipe. You can choose the finest ingredients for an AES/EBU cable and still get it wrong, he says, while the right combination gives excellent results.
The Esprit L'Esprit AES/EBU Digital Cable is a 110 ohm digital cable from Esprit's L'Esprit range. Each L'Esprit AES/EBU cable is made by hand in Confolens, in France's Charente region, in 1 and 1.5 m.
Thirty years in one range
Esprit reserves its most ambitious language for the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable, calling the range the supreme incarnation of musical emotion, the one that carries the soul closest to the absolute. Thirty years of experience, research, tuning and listening tests culminate in L'Esprit, and the company says the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable concentrates every one of its developments. Every improvement in the other Esprit ranges begins with the research done for L'Esprit, which the brand calls both the source and the synthesis of its work, and the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable is where that research lives in full.
Made by hand in Confolens
Esprit's team designs and assembles the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable by hand in its workshop in Confolens, Charente. Richard Cesari insists that assembly counts as much as materials, so each L'Esprit AES/EBU cable is checked at every stage of the work. The first complete check of the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable is made by the person who built it, and nothing moves on until it has been validated.
The sound, in Esprit's words
Esprit speaks of the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable in terms of emotion rather than measurement, describing each note as a pure moment of ever-renewed musicality. For Richard Cesari, the goal of all this work comes down to one word, music, and the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable is where Esprit pursues it furthest.
Its connectors are Esprit's own Eh Ag type, built around a pure copper body with a solid silver center pin and 20-micron silver plating, because Esprit designs a connector on the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable as an extension of the conductor itself. For Esprit, a cable such as the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable should simply let the system express what it can do.
Choosing your AES/EBU cable
The L'Esprit AES/EBU cable is level 9 of 9, the summit of the catalog above Gaia. The L'Esprit AES/EBU cable is a 110 ohm cable with XLR connectors, offered in 1 and 1.5 m. If you would like a second opinion on the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable for your system, we're happy to talk it through. The full Esprit collection shows the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable alongside the rest of the family.
Specifications
| Range |
L'Esprit, Generation 10 (GenX), level 9 of 9 |
| Type |
AES/EBU 110 Ohm Digital Cable |
| Sold as |
Single cable |
| Lengths |
1 m (3.3 ft), 1.5 m (4.9 ft) |
| Connection |
XLR (AES/EBU) |
| Connectors |
Esprit Eh Ag connectors: pure copper body with a solid silver center pin and 20-micron silver plating |
| Impedance |
110 ohm |
| Plating |
20 micron copper/silver multilayer plating + center pin in Pure silver |
| Made in |
Confolens, France, assembled entirely by hand |
Questions
Which connectors does the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable use?
The L'Esprit AES/EBU cable uses Esprit Eh Ag connectors, which have a pure copper body with a solid silver center pin and 20-micron silver plating. Esprit has developed several connector generations so that each range, the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable included, has an interface matched to it.
What is the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable used for?
The L'Esprit AES/EBU cable carries an AES/EBU digital signal between components with XLR digital sockets, such as a transport or streamer and a DAC. The L'Esprit AES/EBU cable is a 110 ohm cable, the impedance Esprit specifies for this link.
Why are there so few construction details for the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable?
Esprit publishes only a short technical description of the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable, and we list only what we can confirm from Esprit's own documents. If you would like to know more about the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable, we will gladly pass your question on to Esprit.
What does the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable cost?
The L'Esprit AES/EBU cable is $18,999 for 1 m and $23,499 for 1.5 m. Sales tax is included in the price of the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable, and we deliver it free anywhere in the USA.
Where is the L'Esprit AES/EBU cable made, and when will it ship?
Esprit builds every L'Esprit AES/EBU cable by hand in its workshop in Confolens, France. The L'Esprit AES/EBU cable usually ships in about 2 weeks, with free delivery anywhere in the USA and sales tax included in the price.
From our boutique to your listening room
HiFi Boutique is an authorized Esprit dealer. Delivery is free anywhere in the USA, and sales tax is included in the price. Hand-built in France — usually ships in about 2 weeks.
