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When you
have the
expertise
and
resources
of an
audio
equipment manufacture,
as I do,
and find
yourself
needing
some
reference
grade
interconnects...
you
just make
them
yourself.
These are
my cables.
They
are in my
personal
system and
are
what I use
to
demo our
tube gear.
Obviously,
in hopes
of making
a sale,
I'm going
to use the
best cable
I can
during a
demo.
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I started getting
serious about cables
during the years
before Decware when I
sold audio gear on the
retail sales floor.
Having it rather
shoved in my face all
at once I had to
wonder why people
would spend as much on
a cable as the audio
component itself.
Naturally I was also
fascinated (with a certain
amount of skepticism) with what
made a cable worth so
much in the first
place.
From that point on I
took every opportunity
to listen to any wire
I could get my hands
on, especially the
expensive stuff and
attempted to reverse
engineer it enough to
understand why it made
the music sound the
way it did. And
yes, they all sound
different, albeit the
differences are
relative to the
transparency of
the components you use
to listen to them on.
Now, almost 20 years
of playing with cables
later, I could afford
stupidly expensive
cables yet I still
make my own. I'd
like to think that
Decware amps live in
the top of the pecking
order in the
categories of
transparency and
neutrality. This would
have been impossible
without a REAL reference
cable because I
can't make an
amplifier any more
transparent than the
cable will allow me to
hear.
These are what I
use:
Shown
with either type RCA connector these
are stupidly good without being stupidly
expensive!
-Steve
Deckert
FEATURES:
What makes this cable
different than most
are the conductors
themselves. They are a
rope lay grouping of
flat silver ribbons
wound around a bees
wax impregnated cotton
fiber core.
(see pics below)
This unique conductor
was designed to be
flexible and
completely
non-resonant. Unlike
solid or stranded
conductors, this
amazing stuff can be
bent repeatabley and
continuously for years
without fatiguing and
is immune to vibration
and
resonance.
Another nice caveat of
these cables is that the
light weight and
flexibility will keep
your equipment jacks
in perfect condition
over the life of your
gear since there is
ZERO stress at the
connector. Thick,
stiff or heavy
cables, while
impressive to look at,
will fatigue even
expensive RCA jacks in
a relatively short
time due to the
constant tension on
the jack. This
in great irony undoes
most of the benefit of
purchasing a good
cable in the first
place.
The construction of
this cable features an
insulator that is 94%
air. To preserve the
anti-resonant quality
of the conductors the
cables are made in a
non-resonant, soft
outer jacket. The RCA
connectors, an
integral part of a
cables sound, are
silver and silver
solder is used to
minimize the effects
of dissimilar metals.
These particular
features will narrow
down your short list
of cable choices to
one...
These.
There are other light
weight cables but most
are pretty delicate
and can break or
fail with repeated
use. These do not fall
into that category.
In fact the
conductor in this
cable can be flexed
1000's of times
for years
with no signs of wear
or fatigue. It
is inert to even
intense vibration at
all audio frequencies
and the jacket is
designed to preserve
this quality. As
a result the
conductors do not
respond to
self-induced signal
resonance and they are
not effected by
vibrations traveling
down the cable from
the equipment, nor
are they effected by
loud sound levels in
the surrounding air.
This gives
the cable a consistent
balance that prevents
sudden signal
transients or room
resonance's from
altering the
sound.
PICTURES:
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Macro view
of the
silver
ribbon
conductor
used in
this reference
cable.
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Cable
construction
shown
without
sheath.
Conductors
run in
parallel
with no
insulators
- only an
anti-shorting
tube is
used.
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Our
cables
come
standard
with
silver
RCA
jacks.
However
the
following
jacks
may be
requested
for an
extra
cost.
The
optional
Silver
Xhadow
Precision
RCA
connectors
(shown
right)
need
no
introduction
-
considered
the
best
made
RCA
plug
in the
world.
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Decware
Silver
Reference
Interconnects
A Pure
un-insulated
SILVER
Litz
with
an
organic
bees
wax
core
protected
inside
a
polyefelin
jacket
and
terminated
with
top
quality
silver
connectors.
Available
in 1/2
meter
&
1
meter
pairs
only.
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model shown:
DSRII-1.0
model shown:
DSRIIX-1.0
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DSRII-0.5
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Silver
Interconnects
0.5
meter
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$129.00
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Interconnects
1.0
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$169.00
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DSRIIX-0.5
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Xhadow
Silver
Interconnects
0.5
meter
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$249.00
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DSRIIX-1.0
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Xhadow
Silver
Interconnects
1.0
meter
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$289.00
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