ABOUT
US
DECWARE is a trademark of High Fidelity Engineering Co., located in
East Peoria IL, USA. We are a small business where everyone takes
a great deal of pride in producing some of the finest audio gear in the
world.
Founded in 1996 by Steve Deckert, the
company started with a single
amplifier called "The Zen Triode" that was largely responsible for
developing Decware's cult following. Since that time we have
lovingly hand built and shipped over 3000 amplifiers, one at a time, to
the USA, Canada, and over 30 countries around the world!
We coined the phrase, "If the first watt
sucks, why continue?", that
describes our focus on low power SET amplifiers. It's a bit of a
purist, less is more approach but that's where real fidelity
lives!
 We were joined by cabinet guru Bob
Ziegler (pictured left) in 2000 who helped to
produce our first loudspeaker, the Decware Radial. Since then we
have been able to make all of our high efficiency speaker designs
available with the same kind of quality craftsmanship and attention to
detail that people have come to expect from Decware.
Steve's business model is simple.
Buy the best quality US made
parts, don't farm out any of the assembly and sell direct to the
customer...
This makes it impossible for similarly priced retail products to
compete because once you remove the dealer markup and other markups,
they are no longer similarly priced!
Selling direct to the customer has
blessed us with feedback from nearly
every sale spanning 13 years. This in turn has honed our products
to a level of perfection that would not have been possible any other
way. Possibly why Decware has
never designed and built any lemons
and why we get less than a one percent return rate on our 30 day trials
and why we can offer a lifetime warranty.
We love what we're doing. Our customer service is real. Our
understanding of hi-fi and what it takes to make something sound
head-shakingly wonderful spans not only audio gear and loudspeakers,
but
acoustics. People who sincerely want better sound (many who've
already spent 5 and 6 figures on their system searching for the holy
audio grail) are never left in the dark. Steve goes out of his
way to help, even if it means recommending someone else's gear.
Of course we have a soft spot for the sincere
but
broke audiophiles of the world because that's what we are!
Probably
the fastest way to find out what Decware is all about is to
get yourself one of these:
The Zen
Triode
SET amplifier Model SE84C+
If
you're new to
tube amps, you will fast forward yourself past all the Chinese
disappointments and simply start out with the best. If
you're an old hat at this and have serious money invested in tube gear,
why not see if one of these could sound better than what you
have? I got an e-mail today from just such a customer:
"Steve,
I set up my
horns and did a run off between the Zen Mono-blocks and my 300Bs.
I was shocked by how much better the Zens performed. They were
warmer, sweeter, more musical, more spacial, had more base and revealed
a whole spectrum of harmonic information that was missing in the
Tildons. In contrast, the 300Bs sounded harder, edgier and had a
lot more mechanical coloration. This is interesting because I was
listening to the 300Bs on the Mark IIs ( a less efficient speaker)
while the Zens were away getting recapped and it was a close tie in a
trade off kind of way. It may have been the Mark IIs showing
their appreciation for more power, but still, on the horns the
difference is obvious and of a wide margin.
Dorwin"
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