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.

 

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:

Macro view of the silver ribbon conductor used in this reference cable.

Cable construction shown without sheath. Conductors run in parallel with no insulators - only an anti-shorting tube is used.

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.

 


 

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

 

DSRII-0.5

Silver Interconnects 0.5 meter

$129.00

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Silver Interconnects 1.0 meter

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DSRIIX-0.5

Xhadow Silver Interconnects 0.5 meter

$249.00

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Xhadow Silver Interconnects 1.0 meter

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