Synergistic Research
Foundation
Ground Cables

Where it all begins

Synergistic Research designed their original Basic Ground Wire in 2015 to be high performance while offering exceptional value. Fast forward over five years, and they have advanced the state of their art with new technologies that improve nearly all aspects of cable performance, including discoveries they could not have dreamed of five years ago. With this in mind, they set out to completely redesign the original Basic Ground Wire with new technologies and materials initially developed for their Foundation Series cables, as well as SR brand new state-of-the-art SRX cables.

The Foundation Ground Cable starts with a Silver Matrix Alloy in a PTFE dielectric. They then incorporated a new woven jacket from Foundation Series cables to reduce unwanted conductor resonance and static charge build-up. Shielding got a new UEF Compound originally developed for Foundation Series cables applied in a Matrix pattern to the outside of the cable for a lower noise floor and enhanced musicality. Lastly, they use a new Three Stage High Voltage conditioning process first developed for our upcoming flagship SRX cables to increase the soundstage scale with a more three-dimensional presentation. All told, these effects are anything but subtle. So if you think a ground wire is just a ground wire, you owe it to yourself to audition a set of Foundation Ground cables with your SR Ground Block and rediscover the art of being well-grounded.

Applications:

• Synergistic Research Atmosphere and Galileo Cables -> Female Mini Banana “Plug”
• Synergistic Research Tranquility Bases -> 4 mm Banana Plug
• Synergistic Research Atmospheres -> 4 mm Banana Plug
• Turntables -> Standard or Small Spade connect to ground post on turntable
• Phono-stages -> Standard or Small Spade connect to ground post
• Digital to Analog Converters (DACs) -> connect to spare digital input, output or chassis ground
• Reel to Reel Tape -> connect to spare analog input, output or chassis ground
• Pre-amplifiers -> connect to spare analog input, output or chassis ground
• Power amplifiers -> connect to spare analog input, output or chassis ground.  Note:  Many power amplifiers will sound best without the ground engaged.  Try your power amp and speaker cables with and without the ground attached and choose what sounds best for your system.
• USB devices -> connect to spare USB input, output or chassis ground
• Audio computers -> 3.5 mm headphone jack
• Any component with an active circuit inside -> connect to spare input, output or chassis ground