Audio and video cables are everywhere in an audio/video system, but the performance is destined to remain locked up in your components when using poorly engineered connections. Relying on a jumble of different cables to tone-control a system is equally unsound. Cables should just...get out of the way. And there’s the rub; it’s extraordinarily difficult to make cables that sound like nothing at all.

But that doesn’t stop XLO. “We control the manufacturing of our own product, just as we’ve done for close to 20 years,” enthuses XLO’s president Allen Sung, “giving us 100 percent quality control backed with a lifetime warranty. We have the capacity, machining and engineering expertise to work the conductor and dielectric materials. We design and produce all our specialist connectors. The product is of such quality,” Allen smiles, “that it’s supplied OEM to a surprising number of other brands.” XLO brings its long-standing social responsibility to the table by using less and less plastic packaging.