Van Den Hul Cables
Dutch maker founded in 1980 by A.J. van den Hul, a physicist who designed the stylus profile that carries his name. One of very few companies making both reference cartridges and cables.
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The physicist who redesigned the stylus
A.J. van den Hul is a rare figure in audio: someone whose work changed a category and is credited by name for it. Aalt Jouke van den Hul taught physics at Delft University of Technology, and the stylus profile that carries his name came out of extended computer analysis carried out there in the 1970s. The insight was to shape the playback stylus to imitate the cutter stylus that made the groove in the first place, which puts far more of the diamond in contact with the groove wall than a conventional elliptical, reducing wear and retrieving more of what was cut into the record. Goldring were the first to adopt it, and it is now used under licence and in variation by cartridge makers across the industry.
The company he founded in the Netherlands in 1980 does two things that rarely sit together. It builds cartridges by hand, at every level from accessible to reference, with the Colibri and Frog among the best regarded moving coils made. And it makes cables, using conductor materials including Linear Structured Carbon that behave differently from metal.
That combination gives the range an unusual coherence for anyone building an analogue front end, since the cartridge, the tonearm cable and the interconnect can all come from the same source and the same design thinking.
Van den Hul also retip and rebuild cartridges from other makers, which is worth knowing if you own something valuable that needs attention.
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The cable names are individual rather than tiered, so The First, The Wind and The Name sit at different levels without an obvious ladder. Cartridges are filtered separately.
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Van Den Hul The Arctic (Halogen Free) Speaker Cable - Custom LengthSKU: C38
(8 reviews)£8.33 £14.58Ex. VAT ✓ Save £6.25The design aim of The Arctic was to produce a very affordable twin lead loudspeaker cable with a very good sonic quality despite its (extremely reasonable) price. Next Day Delivery. -
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Van Den Hul The Air 3T (Halogen Free) Stereo (2-2) Factory Terminated Cable (Pair)SKU: Van Den Hul The Air (2-2)
£1,332.50Ex. VATThe 4 x AWG – 12 lay-out is your guarantee for a perfect combination of superb sound and an affordable price. -
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Van Den Hul The Magnum Hybrid Jumpers (1 Pair)SKU: Van Den Hul The Magnum Hybrid Jumpers (1 Pair)
(1 reviews)£29.16Ex. VATThe Magnum Hybrid is very attractive dark-red coloured mat finished twin-lead speaker cable. It is designed to produce the best transfer quality at an affordable price. Next Day Delivery. -
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Van Den Hul The Magnum Hybrid Jumpers (2 Pairs)SKU: Van Den Hul The Magnum Hybrid Jumpers (2 Pairs)
(5 reviews)£58.32Ex. VATThe Magnum Hybrid is very attractive dark-red coloured mat finished twin-lead speaker cable. It is designed to produce the best transfer quality at an affordable price. Next Day Delivery. -
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Van Den Hul The Second XLR to XLR Audio Cable 1.5m - EX-DEMOSKU: Second 1.5m XLR - EX-DEMO
£274.99 £345.00Ex. VAT ✓ Save £70.01The SECOND ® renders an outstanding resolution and neutrality when used as an electrical instrument cable.
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★ AwardFrom£83.33Ex. VATThe VDH HDMI Flat HEAC our included unique design and material features provide unparalleled added value in terms of signal transport quality and fidelity, cable lifespan and environmental friendliness. -
★ AwardFrom£81.67Ex. VATThe VDH HDMI Ultimate is the proud result of the design challenge to build the ultimate HDMI™ interface cable which leaves all others behind.Flawlessly transferring the HDMI™ 1.3 standard's gigantic amount of digital data of gigabits per second over distances in excess of 15 meters is at the near limits of conventional cable technology. -
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Van Den Hul MC-Silver IT MKIII Balanced 2 XLR to 2 XLR PairSKU: Van Den Hul MC-Silver IT MKIII Balanced
(1 reviews)From£1,313.32Ex. VATThe MC - SILVER IT Mk III Balanced is the top of the line balanced interconnect in there program. -
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Van Den Hul Optocoupler MKII Toslink Optical CableSKU: Van Den Hul Optocoupler
(13 reviews)From£60.42Ex. VATThe Optocoupler MK II is a high performance digital optical audio cable capable of delivering sound with superb clarity and depth. Van den Hul's OPTOCOUPLER Mk II forms a perfect high bandwidth, low-loss and low jitter optical connection, able to serve you with a very high sound and/or picture resolution at an unsurpassed definition. -
From£125.00Ex. VATThe Bay C5, 2 RCA to 2 RCA audio cable offers superb transmission qualities, low conductor capacitance, very high screening as well as high mechanical flexibility & durability. This cable features unique proprietary carbon technology, championed by van den Hul in their Linear Structured Carbon ® (LSC) hybrid configuration. -
From£749.17Ex. VATThe design idea of the 3T The Cliff Hybrid was to create just a quad (4 conductors) centre construction without any screen. This to avoid the standard available signal-conductor to screen capacitance. -
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Van Den Hul The Cliff Hybrid (Halogen Free) XLR to XLR Audio Cable PairSKU: Van Den Hul The Cliff XLR
From£749.17Ex. VATThe design idea of the 3T The Cliff Hybrid was to create just a quad (4 conductors) centre construction without any screen. This to avoid the standard available signal-conductor to screen capacitance.
