Furutech The Empire Plus Pro Audio Power Cable

Description

The new Astoria Plus and Empire Plus have been meticulously re-tuned by Furutech’s skilled cable makers to deliver even greater musical refinement, dynamic balance, and emotional engagement. Every note emerges from a deeper silence, with enhanced focus and coherence from top to bottom.

Now featuring a new nonmagnetic stainless steel main cable fixing clamp, the updated design provides a firmer mechanical grip and further reduces mechanically and electrically induced distortion — ensuring an even purer, more stable signal path for your music.

If you’re a musician or a recording professional, ask yourself the following question: Do your current power cords make sense?

They might make sense to your budget or in the context of your recording and playback equipment, but are they making sense to your brain? Does the music you create in the studio sound like the music in your head, natural and inviting and emotional? Or do you listen to your music with an imaginary clipboard in your lap, checking off what’s right about the sound you’re getting—and what isn’t so right?

The new Furutech Astoria Plus and Empire Plus power cords were designed for demanding professionals just like you. Developed in Tokyo with extensive feedback from musicians and recording professionals, the Astoria Plus and Empire Plus power cords have been specifically tuned and balanced to deliver greater punch and dynamics to your sound—more of what you’re hearing in your head and in your heart.

In fact, choosing between the Astoria Plus and the Empire Plus provides you with even greater control over the type of sound you’re trying to achieve. Pick the Astoria Plus if you’re aiming for quick response and natural speed, mated with deep and powerful bass. The Empire Plus, on the other hand, offers a well-balanced sound with incredible resolution so that you hear every detail and nuance. It’s up to you.

Just replace the existing power cords for your amplifiers, mixing consoles, microphone preamps and even your entire recording and playback system, and you’ll immediately hear more top-to-bottom coherence in the sound. Dynamic range will be greater than ever before, and the music will sound effortless and expansive instead of congested, edgy or muddy.

Your music will start to make more sense where it counts—in your brain.

The legendary design team at Furutech are experts when it comes to preserving the signal path and delivering an end result that’s accurate, honest and uncompromised. Our innovative (Alpha) PC-Triple C power cable, used in both the Astoria Plus and the Empire Plus, is the result of a proprietary forging process that involved repeated rounds of metal folding—the same method used to create the katana, the sword used by Samurai warriors!

We’ve taken that art of sword-making to new levels, however, by applying variable high pressures to high-purity oxygen-free copper. This creates a forging process that is identical to folding the steel of a katana tens of thousands of times. This ensures that the crystal grain boundaries deep inside the copper are rearranged so that electrical current travels through the signal path more smoothly than ever before.

Add our renowned gold-plated connectors, our noise-reducing (Alpha) conductor shielding, our vibration-controlling RoHS-compliant flexible PVC sheath and our patented Floating Field Damper grounding system and you’ll have a razor-sharp tool for extracting the finest results– both in the studio and on the stage.

Use Furutech’s Astoria Plus and Empire Plus power cords for all your recording and playback needs and the end result will not be subtle.

In professional recording and serious hi-fi playback, a power cable is not “just AC.” It can influence perceived dynamic range, imaging stability, and the sense of effortlessness—especially when your system is already capable of revealing fine changes in noise floor and transient control. Furutech developed The Empire Plus (and its sibling Astoria Plus) with extensive feedback from musicians and recording professionals, then re-tuned the design to improve refinement, balance, and engagement. Furutech describes the result as music emerging from a “deeper silence,” with enhanced focus and coherence from top to bottom.

Tuned for resolution with a balanced, “complete” presentation

Furutech positions The Empire Plus as the choice when you want a well-balanced sound with incredible resolution, so you can hear details and nuance without pushing the presentation toward edgy or congested. In practice, this is the kind of voicing that can work across a wide range of pro and audiophile systems—particularly where you want clarity plus musical weight.

α PC-TripleC conductors: forging for smoother current flow

At the core is Furutech’s α (Alpha) PC-TripleC conductor, produced through a forging approach intended to realign crystal grain boundaries so current travels more smoothly. The Empire Plus uses 45-strand α PC-TripleC (0.32mm) × 3 cores, a structure designed for stable power delivery and consistent performance across the full system.

Noise reduction and mechanical control for a cleaner signal path

The Empire Plus combines multiple strategies to reduce both electrical and mechanically induced distortion:

• α (Alpha) conductor shield for protection against radiated noise

• OFC wire braid shielding (0.12mm) to further suppress interference

• RoHS-compliant audio-grade flexible PVC sheath designed to improve vibration isolation

• Audio-grade flexible PVC insulation that contributes to reduced capacitance

This mix is aimed at improving clarity and control in real studios and listening rooms, where cables are exposed to vibration, EMI/RFI, and constant equipment changes.

Floating Field Damper™: patented grounding architecture

Furutech includes its Floating Field Damper™ (Earth/Ground Jumper System), with listed US and European patent references, as part of the design to manage grounding behavior and reduce unwanted electrical effects. For pro racks and high-resolution systems, grounding strategy can be as important as conductor quality, especially when multiple devices share a single power strip or distribution block.

Updated hardware for a firmer mechanical grip

Furutech notes an updated design featuring a new non-magnetic stainless-steel main cable fixing clamp, providing a firmer mechanical grip and helping reduce mechanically and electrically induced distortion—supporting a more stable signal path. The product features improved plating and a new metal cable clamp aimed at resonance damping and secure hold.

Built for studio and stage—and for serious home systems

While voiced for demanding professionals, The Empire Plus is equally at home in high-end domestic audio where you want greater coherence and lower congestion. Furutech specifically mentions replacing power cords on amplifiers, mixing consoles, microphone preamps, and even across your entire recording and playback system to achieve a more effortless and expansive sound.