COME TO OUR THIRD ANNUAL DECWARE ZEN FEST !
 2005

Friday Sept. 30th, Saturday October 1st and Sunday October 2nd.

Once again we are inviting our past and future customers into our home and business for a three day audio fest!  We will demonstrate our electronics and loudspeakers as well as other compatible speakers and electronics from other manufactures.

Come and see where Decware amplifiers are made and experience our reference listening room.  There will be good food and drink provided as well as ample room for camping should anyone not want to stay in one of the 30 nearby hotels.  It will start on Friday at noon and end on Sunday at 6:00 P.M.  Decware is located right on Peoria Lake, part of the Illinois River.

The event is split between two locations about 100 yards apart - Our home where the Studio will be the center, and our Shop where Steve will be demoing our reference listening room throughout the event.

Friday will be a free-for-all day for non-Decware gear.  This means you can bring your amp, preamp, source or speakers to see how they would sound with our products. Wondering if your speakers will sound good with one of our amplifiers?  This is the day to find out.  Parker Audio and possibly other small manufactures will be showing their speakers during this time.  We will be providing food around 6:00 P.M. and drinks throughout the day.

Saturday after everyone gets back from breakfast we will start demos in the Studio around noon.  Steve will start the demo's with the first Zen Triode amp ever built and the stories behind it - kind of an overview of how Decware started.  In addition to a short overview of each of our products there will be a question/answer session after each one.  Some new things will be demonstrated also this year that we think you'll find very interesting:  

Steve's new Imperial SO (Sub Only) folded horns that do a true 20 cycle note unlike anything you've likely experienced.  These horns are based on a new technology that several engineers are saying re-writes conventional horn theory.

A new concept is also being explored - an all Triode class A sub amplifier that addresses many of the common problems with getting subwoofers to sound good. Steve will be demonstrating the prototype of this new amplifier and wait till you hear it!

Also on the topic of speakers, we have developed a new design that handles the rear wave of a driver like a one-way valve.  Sound exits the cabinet on the negative cycle and on the positive cycle no sound exists in the cabinet.  It is the most open sound you'll hear from the popular 8" full range single drivers next to an open baffle. Depending on how these are received at the fest we may put them into production afterwards.  The same design has also been scaled down as a small stand-mount speaker using a single 5.25 inch full range driver.

This is also your opportunity to take another serious listen to the RL-3's which have been improved since last year even though no one thought they needed any improvements!  And we will unveil the new HDT MK II's.  These do not replace the HDT's which remain in production, but offer a new model entirely.  The MK II's are based on the original 1980's design and configured as a 2-way speaker with a 4 ohm rating and efficiency of 94dB 1w/1m.  These speakers are smooth, warm, transparent and have excellent weight even with a single SE84CS amplifier!

On the topic of amplifiers, I'm sure the Taboo will be turning ears but we will also be debuting our replacement for the TORII, a new 25 watt push-pull amplifier featuring a choke regulated dual mono power supply with tube voltage regulation, tube rectifiers and no feedback.  Self biasing and compatible with EL34's, 6550's and KT88's it has something for everyone!

Saturday evening around 6:00 PM food will once again be provided! After we eat Steve will have a general question/answer session in a format not unlike our forums, where you can ask him your personal system related questions, listen to the answer and then comments from the rest of the group.  This should prove to be very productive so please save all your "Steve questions" for Saturday evening.  

Sunday morning everyone will meet for breakfast and return to the Studio for a continuation of Friday's free-for-all until 6:00 PM when the event ends.

Please dress casual for this event.  There is no charge to attend.  Plan to have any electronics or speakers you've brought back in your car by the time you retire on Friday evening so we can have plenty of room for Saturdays demos.

 - A simple side effect of continuously ongoing Research & Development -