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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: DSRII-1.0 with Xhadow
Silver Machined RCA jacks
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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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DSRII-1.0
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Silver Interconnects 1.0 meter
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$169.00
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You will have the option to choose
the Xhadow connectors during checkout.
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