LessLoss C-MARC™ Entropic Process

Description - LessLoss C-MARC™ Entropic Process

The word of a true-believing hifist

What do I like about this truly high-end brand? I have watched it go up and up for many years. Not a year goes by that there is not a major award in trade magazines around the world for some technologically advanced cable of this brand. It still holds the top five spots in price/performance ratings in the world's trade magazines. And what competition there is! It offers a completely unusual processing and geometry of conductors, it offers a completely unique combination of natural materials with advanced technology. It also offers innovative processes that it has been perfecting for decades! And what is a complete rarity, it produces some of its own connectors, which is totally unique for a company of this size! It ranks alongside brands like Furutech, or Atlas cable. Another important fact is that it does not use any synthetic materials at all to manufacture its cables, the wire wrap is pure cotton. And that's the secret to exceptional sound! Yes this brand is not for everyone. There are plenty of other brands that have many times the promotional budgets and visibility, so most commercial hifi players won't even stumble across this brand in their lifetime. The rest of you, trust me, once you get a taste of what potential this brand holds and for money where other corporations are just getting started, then you can't help but be impressed! I highly recommend it. It's a true Highend for life.
 

Review:
The difference between the C-MARC line and the C-MARC Entropic Process from a music listening perspective:
The C-MARC series offers a more analog music listening experience than the higher end series. It doesn't go for precision and coherence of presentation, but offers softer bass and mids and tends more towards relaxed. It is therefore more suited to those of you who prefer a more relaxed listening style, typically old rock, big beat, 90s pop and older, or jazz, blues and acoustic music from the last century. So you are looking for musicality and relaxed musical expression. The C-MARC Entropic Process, on the other hand, offers precision, speed and coherence in sound expression. It delivers a precise, clean and well-phrased musical performance. The bass has incredible clarity and accuracy. And not that they go all that deep, but they offer a certain magic and engagement like the best amp! The mids are textured, layered and offer depth and engagement. This series is suitable for listening to hi-res recordings in general, big bands, harder rock, metal, classical music and all styles of music from the birth of hi-res recordingsin the 21st century. So it's not that one series is better than the other. It's that each offers a slightly different type of music listening experience. I have to say for myself that I have never heard such sonic magic that goes into plugging these brand of cables out of speakers and that I have heard them! So don't hesitate, this brand is highly addictive.
 

This video will give you the inspiration you need: the LessLoss cable manufacturing process
 

tests and reviews from foreign magazines: 6moons.com - production visit to LessLoss factory, monoandstereo.com - C-MARC power cable, hifiknights.com - C-MARC RCA entropy process, theaudiobeat.com - C-MARC series cable test
 

C-MARC™ Technology

is a new type of Litz wire. C-MARC noise reduction is based on the resistive coil method using two counter-polarized coils. Each clockwise rotation

is aligned with a corresponding counter-rotation of exactly mirrored diameter and pitch. The two resulting counterpoised coils overlap each other. The fractal replication of the already excited coils is then repeated in the second scale. Thanks to the electrical suppression of induced noise, C-MARC™ provides tremendous signal-to-noise separation in today's challenging environment! C-MARC™ stands for Common-mode Auto-rejecting Cable.

C-MARC™ is unlike any other connection wire or cable currently in production. It is based on the resistive-coil noise cancellation method most famously used in the design of two-coil pickups, which were first developed in the mid-1930s to suppress noise in electric guitars. This type of guitar pickup was called a humbucker because it "cancels out the hum", i.e. noise, from the desired guitar signal through the phase cancellation of the two opposing coils. When the two induction coils induce a common signal, it is induced in opposite polarities by each coil. These opposite polarities then cancel each other out when the two counter-polarized noise currents are combined by simple electrical summation.
 

Technology - Entropic process: the deepest LessLoss technology
pictured here is the new insignia of the highest achievement of LessLoss. When you see this marking, it is clear that there will be no better sound! We have been researching the mysterious phenomenon of burn-in for over 20 years, watching it very closely and learning more and more about it until we figured out a way to actually use it in the design of real products. That doesn't mean we've done away with all the initial changes in sound quality. It just means that we have developed means and methods to accelerate it, to pre-prepare it, so to speak, to the point that within the first two weeks of listening you can go through, say, some 200 years of regular firing! We have not reduced the burning process, but we have put it on steroids to serve us even better! Therein lies the genius of the new Entropic Process.

What is conductor burn?
Burn-in is a strange phenomenon in which newly manufactured devices or cables go through a series of unexplained initial transients in terms of performance. One day the sound may be brittle and complacent and the next day the sound may be rubbery and resilient. One may experience phases where the bass is heavily submerged, as if underwater, and then a period where one feels that the woofers are too weak in balance with the mids and highs. Eventually these two extremes converge into a balanced, stable performance, a mature and pleasing tonal balance.

LessLoss products display the exact same changes that each new driver undergoes. The only difference is that the C-MARC has such a fantastically low noise floor that one can more easily perceive and experience these big burn-in swings because the listener is exposed to much more detail than usual. It goes without saying that you simply can't have it both ways: you can't expect a totally transparent cable to reveal the real data on a recording that doesn't also reveal the much deeper underlying physical aspect of the burn-in as it matures and settles into performance. Performance is the ability to show increasingly subtle changes in the signal. It must also simultaneously mean that it will show ever more subtle changes in what actually constitutes burn-in (re-alignment of molecular structure or whatever).

 

The difference between the C-MARC™ cable and the Entropic Process cables ?

When listening to a system equipped with Entropic Process interconnect cables and then switching to C-MARC™ interconnect cables without the Entropic Process feature, the sound becomes slightly less round and holographic, less bounded by an overarching musical motif and more by each note itself. The space loses some of its natural persuasiveness, and you can tell that it is much more the sound of an "audio system" than of a "real acoustic space". These are just some general sonic differences, but on an emotional level it really feels like a loss of contact with the musicians. But be aware that we are comparing subtle differences and nuances, and it depends a lot on your equipment whether it appreciates them!

In conclusion
We cannot and do not admit to removing all effects related to burning! What you won't get, however, is absolutely unwavering performance from the first hour. What you do get, however, is a turbocharged version of what most of you would already consider the highest possible sound quality. Both the C-MARC™ interconnects and the C-MARC™ Entropic Process interconnects are excellent. However, the Entropic Process version takes us a significantly greater number of hours to produce. One listen and you'll know immediately that the effort is worth it!

We'd be happy to have you join the thousands of satisfied customers around the world using our technologically advanced cables that we have been working hard on for many years!

Louis Motek owner of LessLoss
 

Reviews by users themselves

C-MARC Stellar Power Cable Date Added: 09/06/2024 by Jean-Michel ANQUETIL

With this new power cord (replacing the C-MARC Classic Entropic), I completed several listening sessions on the power supply feeding my Totaldac D1 DAC and Reclocker. The Stellar ran for only 6 hours and the result is already very good. This afternoon I went back to the Entropic to see... and make sure my ears aren't deceiving me. The progress that Stellar makes in musicality is quite significant; I didn't expect so much more improvement. But what I do hear is more body in the music, a nicer and more detailed top end, a more articulate bottom end, and an overall better balance of top and bottom end. All of this adds more life to the music! You're right: attention to the performance side of our gear is absolutely crucial.

Speaker Cable C-MARC, Date Added: 10/27/2023 by Mac Finney, Baltimore

After a few days of firing, I am now hearing the beautiful, balanced & highly nuanced characteristics I was hoping for... And much, much more. Beautifully crafted, highly flexible LL speaker cables are more distinguished than the 3x more expensive wires they replace.
The insane amount of detail hit me first. Sparkling details. There's nothing sharp about it. The bass is fast, taught and musical. Transients to die for. Head turning attacks & breakdowns that drift off into inky blackness. Without pointing out one strong point, this speaker cable does everything well. In my opinion, however, the cable's ability to reproduce vocals has to be one of its most impressive and compelling calling cards. This is the stuff that "end game" speaker cables are made of & that deserves serious consideration regardless of budget.

Date added: 3/25/2019 by Johan Pettersen

I've had two sets of C-MARC XLR signal chai dac - preamp - power amp cables for about a week now. There is a "cable history" behind this: ten years ago I had Nordost Tyr first generation cables. Then I bought XLR LessLoss Anchorwave and found them to be better - more detailed and musical at the same time. A few years later I bought second-hand Valhalla signal and speaker cables. Great expectations! However, I soon found that I still preferred the Anchorwaves. The Valhalla's had a bit more dynamics and detail, but at the same time they were a bit poor and clinical in their own way, and I had listening fatigue. Whereas the Anchorwave signal and speaker cables provided me with hours and hours of music. Then a few years ago I got the Tyr2 - more musical than the Valhallas, a bit more detail and dynamics than the Anchorwaves. I figured I'd stick with them. But then last year I bought a C-MARC digital cable (from streamer to dac) and after a few critical listens there was no doubt: In my system, the C-MARC digital cable sounds better than the Tyr2 digital cable - more open and dynamic, and at the same time more full and organic. So now comes a new twist: C-MARC XLR cables for the analog part of the signal chain. Impressions after about one week: Incredibly wide sound space, very articulate and dynamic, combined with a full impression of voices and instruments. Extremely listenable and musical.

Date added: 27.11.2021 by René Copenhagen, Denmark

A year and a half ago, I switched to the "regular" C-Marc RCA digital cable and was happy to find that in terms of musicality and naturalness, it far surpasses the sonic quality of my upgraded and overclocked USB streamer-to-DAC chain with the decent Curious Enhanced cable. The improvement in SQ was mainly in terms of greater naturalness, musicality and ease of performance flow - all familiar LessLoss strengths. The C-MARC has provided me with countless hours of wonderfully engaging listening to a wide variety of musical styles.

Ten days ago, I finally received from my UPS carrier the upgraded C-Marc Digital RCA Entropic Process cable The new LL RCAs have beautifully crafted wooden connectors on both ends, and after putting LessLoss Bindbreaker sockets under all my gear last summer with stunning results, I expected some of their virtues to sort of carry over and hopefully eliminate the micro-vibrations that are commonly present in the metal connectors of even the best interconnects. Certainly, everything improved over the course of the burn-in period, the larger and clearer space - behind the speakers, in front of the speakers, outside the speakers, the image height increased to a more believable size and the sense of air around the performers became much more pronounced, the much better resolution of the microdetails brought richer textures and greater "transfer" of emotion from the performers to the listeners, explosive macro-details with greater ease, and overall transient speed has increased on both the macro and micro levels, improving the daunting task of reconciling your line-up's ability to play with the ease of a snare when required, and conversely be just as cumbersome and full of lead on music with such demands, be it classical, electro or heavy metal. No small task in my opinion, but oh so nice.

The sound, or perhaps better the non-sound, of the Entropic process, whether applied to speaker cables, firewalls, power cables or as now interconnects, is so consistent that once you know and experience it, you immediately recognize it by its ease of flow, musicality, dynamics and natural sound. The joke, however, is that the Entropic process seems to add so much of this world into the equation that I would advise you all to enter this universe, the sooner the better. The real insanity is that it probably doesn't add too much, but removes things.

- Perhaps that is why the wizard Louis Motek chose the name Less Loss.
- At least that's what it sounds like to my ears. A true zen experience, Sincerely from Copenhagen