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       Perpetuating the hi-fi underground since 1996

 
Decware Staff
Pictured left to right, Sarah W. (Customer Service), DeVon D. (General Manager), Denis H. (Senior Engineer),
Steve D. (Senior Engineer), Paul N. (Senior Engineer).








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!



Bob ZieglerWe 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:


Zen Triode Amplifier model SE84C+


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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