Note that ALL Synergistic Research products with Active Shielding are assigned a factory installed Serial Number. If a cable you intend to purchase does not have a Serial Number, it may be a counterfeit. We encourage you to contact us directly if you are not 100% certain of the authenticity of a product you are considering purchasing.

See below for a few photos of the counterfeit TESLA Accelerator Speaker Cable in question. To our trained eye, this counterfeit cable is almost comical in the number of discrepancies between it and an authentic, hand-crafted pair of Synergistic Research TESLA Accelerator Speaker Cable, and Synergistic Research products in general:

Negative Signal Shrink Label
Synergistic Research speaker cables use black negative signal shrink labels. The counterfeit cable uses blue.

Spade Lugs
Synergistic Research speaker cables use a silver, notched spade lug. The counterfeit cable uses a gold spade lug with no notch.

Active Shielding
Authentic TESLA Accelerator Speaker Cables are ALWAYS built with Active Shielding. The counterfeit cable does not have Active Shielding.

Heatshrink
All Synergistic Research cables are built with heatshrink imported from Japan, and it is not marked in any way. This counterfeit appears to use an “off the shelf”, low quality brand of heatshrink that can be purchased at any discount electronics store.

Geometry
The apparent gauge of the counterfeit cable is noticeably different than the gauge of an actual TESLA Accelerator Speaker Cable.

Build Quality
The counterfeit cable would NEVER pass a Synergistic Research Quality Control check. The outer jacketing is loose and ill-fitting, and the heatshrink applications are very sloppy.

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Synergistic Research Design Studio

At Synergistic Research, we’re all about creating synergy. We focus on you, your goals, your desire to hear beautiful music at home. We know the importance music plays in your life, and we strive to make your musical experiences as fulfilling as possible. We know because we are passionate about music, just like you are. We’re driven to take music to the next level and just like you, we love nothing more then to retreat to our home systems and get lost in music, if only for an hour or two per day. In these difficult times, we find music brings peace and the energy to soldier on in the face of adversity. In short, music is more important than ever, and we will never lose site of our commitment to bringing you innovative solutions and a sincere desire to help you realize your audio dreams.

Over the years, we’ve isolated four key aspects of system setup, and developed products based on these findings. When properly matched, Synergistic Research creates balance in your system.

1. Audio Cables- TESLA cables designed to match your system, Galileo Universal Cable Cells

2. AC Power- TESLA power cords, TESLA PowerCell power conditioners, TESLA Plex

3. Room Acoustics- Acoustic ART analogue room treatment resonators

4. Mechanical Resonance- MiG component resonators

When creating magic in your system, not one of these four aspects of system set up should be overlooked. Fortunately it is not important, or even necessary, to purchase the most expensive cables, electronics, or speakers when seeking satisfying results. It is far more important to focus on your system as a whole, and to address and budget for each of these four areas accordingly. At Synergistic Research, we have developed unique products that work together on each of these four principals. We work with you in developing a strategy to bring your system in balance. With Synergistic Research, you get off the audio merry-go-round and get down to what matters most: music.

Of course, it’s only human nature to assume the biggest, or the most expensive, equals the best. It can, but not until you possess the knowledge and sufficient resources to address the four foundational aspects of system set-up. Often a “bigger = better” mindset leads people to over purchase in areas they deem most necessary (ie. an extremely expensive power amplifier or pair of speakers), at the expense of other areas of equal (if not greater) importance. In fact, if you do not address each of these four foundational areas with a strategy to create synergy, you will never realize your system’s full potential. Failure to focus on synergy leads to an imbalance that leaves your system sounding flat, bright (or dark), compressed, and ultimately unsatisfying.

Sadly, many audiophiles (and music lovers) are not aware that the most common aspect of the world’s truly great systems lies in a foundation of careful system set-up, with an emphasis on each of these four principals, in balance with a system’s electronics and speakers. Instead, people tend to get myopic when designing their audio systems, focusing on only a handful of personal priorities like electronics and speakers, or perhaps a special turntable and cartridge. They assume if they can just buy the “best they can afford”, they will get wonderful sound. Later, when they assemble their dream system, sprinkle in high end cables and power cords without thought for creating synergy, a line conditioner, and perhaps a dedicated AC line or two, they are still left feeling unsatisfied. This often leads to a frantic search for “what went wrong,” and because they do not grasp the entire picture, they return to the same process that brought them failure in the first place. Fortunately, when you do pay attention to what matters most in your system, you not only get vastly more satisfying results, you also end up saving a lot of money.

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At Synergistic Research, our authorized dealers have the right solutions and knowledge to help you realize your audio dreams. When you’re ready, we can help isolate key areas of concern in your system, and then prescribe just the right cables and accessories to take control of your system and acoustics through our no risk Synergistic Research Challenge.

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Galileo System Interconnect Cells with Actively Shielded Gold and Silver Air Strings

The Galileo System began as an exploration for radical new technologies to improve cable performance. We first wanted to learn what would happen when we combined the Electromagnetic Cell technology (from our award winning TESLA PowerCells) with interconnects and speaker cables. To optimize performance of the Galileo System’s Electromagnetic Cells, we experimented with a myriad of conductor options. In our TESLA PowerCell, we utilize highly conductive copper with trace amounts of silver. For Galileo System cables, we wanted to challenge assumptions made in the PowerCell’s conductor medium by exploring the effect of precious metals on EM Cell performance. We began experimenting with pure silver, which opened up resolution, but unfortunately it did so in an artificial way by over emphasizing high frequencies at the expense of natural harmonic overtones in the mid-range. We later experimented with strategic layers of both copper and pure silver (as found in our Galileo Universal Cable Cells). This increased high frequency resolution while preserving a natural mid-range. We later experimented with pure gold, pure silver, and pure copper in the Galileo System’s EM Cells. This allowed us to push the envelope with silver, while preserving an amazing level of harmonic richness and texture. Finally, we hit on a strategic combination of pure copper, pure silver, pure gold, and pure platinum. This precious metal matrix, as we now call it, yielded the highest level of resolution we have yet been able to transfer, while preserving a natural balance of low, mid, and high frequencies in the largest, most holographic sound field we have ever created; something Synergistic Research cables are already known for.

Galileo System Speaker Cells. Each Galileo System SC has two cells- one at the beginning and end of each cable run

We began engineering cables to connect to our new electromagnetic cells, located at the beginning and end of each Galileo System interconnect and speaker cable. We wanted the cables (Strings) between Galileo cells to be interchangeable; you can actually mix-and-match Strings of different conductor materials to better compliment your system now, with flexibility to match any components you are likely to acquire in the future.

For Galileo interconnects, we developed the world’s first Actively Shielded cables with an air dielectric, and experimented with dozens of precious metals for its signal conductors. Since Ted predetermined each EM Cell should be connected by four separate Strings, there was a need to keep these cables as small and manageable as possible. This presented yet another engineering challenge, given that each cable would carry both balanced and single-ended signals, ground conductors, DC biased shields not connected to ground, and a return line for DC. In the end, a five-channel geometry in a sealed air dielectric was created in a cable smaller then a No. 2 pencil!

Galileo System Speaker Cell Connection Ports: 2 x High Current Strings, 1 x Silver Air String, 1 x Silver Tricon

In addition to being able to custom tune the sound of your Galileo System Interconnects by swapping pure Gold and Silver Strings between Active Cells, you are also able to switch between XLR and RCA terminations by simply plugging in either RCA or XLR leads, as supplied with each pair of Galileo System Interconnects.

Galileo System Speaker Cable Elevators suspending four Strings

Galileo System Speaker Cables are no less innovative, with two high current Galileo EM Cells decoupled from ground by razor sharp stilettos, and connected by four cable strings. Each string is suspended by a unique system of cable elevators that maintain uniform distance between strings, for effortless sound. As with a fine instrument, each string has a specific role to play in transferring music from your amplifiers to your speakers. We developed the following geometries: two high current Galileo Strings with Silver Matrix conductors, one Pure Silver Air String, and one Silver Tricon String; all Actively Shielded, of course. The two high current Galileo cables lend weight and authority to the music, while the pure silver Air String preserves delicate air and inner detail. Lastly, one Pure Silver Tricon lends bloom and overall soundstage scale & dimension to the transfer. The net result is a sound so finely detailed, yet so effortless and rich, it defies common assumptions of what is and is not possible from a premium set of speaker cables. To lend functionality, the Galileo speaker cable system can handle full range, bi-wire, and tri-wire speakers. Now as you change speakers over the years, you won’t have to look for new speaker cables.

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The all new TESLA Series cables combine three revolutionary technologies based on the work of Nikola Tesla – the Tesla Tricon cable geometry, Zero Capacitance Active Shielding, and a proprietary Patent Pending conditioning process in a new line of cables that are smaller and more flexible than our previous models with significantly higher performance and value.

TESLA Cables allow you to hear deeper into recordings with detail that’s transparent and non-fatiguing. In fact starting at the Accelerator interconnect and speaker cable level, TESLA Cables outperform every cable we have ever pitted them against regardless of price.

The TESLA Breakthrough • TESLA Series Technologies • TESLA The Man

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Galileo Universal Cable Cells are a direct trickle down technology from our cost-no-object Galileo Research Program. As such they offer unprecedented levels of performance and value. Benefits include a significant lowering of your system’s noise floor, for blacker backgrounds and increased inner detail. Bass impact and control are also improved. High frequencies take on a delicate transparent nature, with increased resolution, air, and musicality. Mid-range bloom is enhanced, with a more convincing sense of presence. Soundstaging (already a strong point of the Synergistic Research TESLA cable line) is dramatically improved. Cables from other manufacturers with presentations that may not be as holographic as our TESLA cables take on new levels of soundstage realism. In short, Galileo Universal Cable Cells represent a paradigm shift in their ability to transform your system.

With Galileo Universal Cable Cells, it’s as if your entire music library has been remastered.

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Galileo lies in it’s ability to transform your recordings (even harsh dimensionless recordings) to near audiophile status. With Galileo, you’ll enjoy your music collection as never before; especially with recordings from artists you love but whose recordings fail to live up to their performances. It’s as if Galileo Universal Cable Cells remaster your entire music collection!

Galileo Universal Speaker Cell’s connect full range, bi-wire and tri-wire speakers

Galileo Universal Cable Cells work by filtering RFI and EMI noise, which may be leaking from your components, or penetrating the various cables in your system. With Galileo, even modest systems take on new levels of refinement usually reserved for the highest level of electronics and cables, while state-of-the-art systems set new standards for music playback, allowing you to hear for the first time their full potential. In fact, no matter how good you may think your current system is, within 30 seconds of hooking up a fully broken in pair of Galileo Speaker Cells, your system will be dramatically transformed; we guarantee it our your money back!

Galileo Speaker Cell running in a bi-wire configuration

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Galileo Universal Interconnect Cells are available in RCA and XLR configurations- learn more

Galileo Universal Speaker Cells connect full range, bi-wire, and tri-wirespeakers- learn more

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The hand crafted Active Subwoofer cable is another weapon in the Synergistic Research arsenal. After the accolades and rave reviews received for Synergistic Research cables, from one generation to the next, we were urged to develop a subwoofer link. We developed specialized low frequency geometries, and of course installed Zero Capacitance Active Shielding technology to the inherent signal transfer aspect that low frequencies require. The results were nothing short of amazing.

We have always been aware of just how important phase coherency is in signal transfer. Now through our research we have discovered that lower frequencies are extremely sensitive to very small changes in phase coherency. For example: A 20 hertz low frequency wave requires at least 40 feet to propagate. If the phase is out, by just a little, it provides an unstable platform for the frequencies that are directly above. Higher frequencies have shorter wave lengths, and these are adversely affected by phase shift anomalies at the lower frequency range.