Furutech The Astoria 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 audio, small improvements in noise floor and power stability can translate into more confident decisions during tracking, mixing, and mastering. In high-end hi-fi, those same improvements can be heard as deeper silence between notes, more stable images, and better low-level detail. Furutech designed The Astoria Plus as part of a power-cable pair (with Empire Plus) tuned using feedback from real musicians and recording engineers, then refined to deliver a more complete, balanced, and engaging presentation—what Furutech describes as music emerging from a “deeper silence.” (furutech.com)

A pro-audio cable that also shines in high-end home systems

Astoria Plus is intended for serious studio and playback environments—where power cords are not decorative but functional tools. It targets the most common real-world problems in power distribution: radiated noise, vibration, contact instability, and ground-related artifacts. The goal is to preserve detail and dynamics while making the system feel calmer and more coherent from top to bottom. (furutech.com)

α PC-TripleC conductors: smooth current transfer

At the core is Furutech’s α (Alpha) PC-TripleC conductor technology. PC-TripleC is produced through a forging process intended to reorganize the conductor’s grain structure so current flows more smoothly. In a power cable, that can help power supplies respond more consistently during fast current demands and reduce subtle hardness that sometimes appears when power delivery is compromised. Astoria Plus uses a multi-strand α PC-TripleC structure with three cores for practical compatibility in modern audio systems. (furutech.com)

Noise rejection and vibration management

Furutech builds Astoria Plus with a layered approach, combining electrical noise reduction and mechanical damping:

• OFC wire braid shielding (0.12mm) designed to suppress EMI/RFI and protect the system from radiated noise (furutech.com)

• Audio-grade flexible PVC insulation specified for reduced capacitance and improved vibration isolation (furutech.com)

• A vibration-controlled sheath structure and a braided outer sleeve for durability and consistent handling in real pro environments (furutech.com)

This matters because power cables often sit near transformers, wall wart supplies, routers, and other noise sources. Better shielding and mechanically stable construction help maintain a clearer baseline for the entire audio chain.

Floating Field Damper™: patented grounding architecture

Astoria Plus incorporates Furutech’s Floating Field Damper™ (Earth/Ground Jumper System), referenced on the product page with US and European patent information. This concept is designed to control grounding behavior and reduce unwanted electrical effects that can appear in multi-component racks—especially in studios where many devices share common power distribution. (furutech.com)

Updated hardware and secure mechanical clamping

Furutech highlights an updated construction using a new non-magnetic stainless-steel main cable fixing clamp, intended to provide a firmer grip and help reduce mechanically and electrically induced distortion. Alongside improved plating and a new metal cable clamp for resonance damping, this supports more stable contact integrity and longer-term reliability—important for pro audio rigs that are frequently moved and reconfigured. (furutech.com)

Where to use Astoria Plus

Astoria Plus is a strong fit for:

• DACs, streamers, servers, and digital sources (noise floor, micro-detail, focus)

• Preamps, mic preamps, and analog front ends (texture, silence, dynamic nuance)

• Mixing consoles and studio racks (coherence, stability, reduced haze)

• Power distributors/conditioners as a “baseline upgrade” cable

In many systems, using Astoria Plus on sensitive digital or low-level analog stages, and Empire Plus on current-hungry amplification, can provide a consistent, well-balanced system result.