DECWARE / Therapy For Audiophiles

Decware ad in January CES issue AudioXpress magazine

Steve Deckert — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:48:43 +0000

Check out or ad in the January Consumer Electronics Show issue of AudioXpress magazine! With so many excellent products, both in the electronics and speaker arenas it was just impossible to pick something to advertise for the CES issue of the magazine. In the panic of the final hours I fell back on old habits and designed [...]

ZKITS are finally a reality!

Steve Deckert — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:33:16 +0000

We are now introducing a line of D.I.Y. audio kits - the majority of them are tube gear - called ZKITS! We started with a kit version of our famous Zen Triode SET amplifier called the ZKIT1. Recently we have added the ZKIT2. It is a mono version of the ZKIT1 but with a horizontal [...]

Custom options now available for the ZCD player!

Steve Deckert — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:19:07 +0000

Sales have been so strong with the Zen CD Player (You know, the one with the Single Ended Class A Triode output stage) that we are making some exciting custom options available! You can now add a removable power cord IEC jack, have it built for 120 OR 240 volts 50/60 cycles, add stepped [...]

Part IV - Zen Open Baffle Project

Steve Deckert — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:50:45 +0000

With a room packed full of onlookers, I set up the microphones and was concerned about trying very hard NOT to set the gain too high so as to spare us all the horrible sound of low frequency feedback. So by that time I had music playing so I could blend in [...]

The New DECWARE Radials !

Steve Deckert — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:36:33 +0000

The long awaited replacement for the Radial 1.5’s has landed! These will become available on the site soon! There has been many improvements to this amazing speaker since the first Radial was shown at VSAC 2000 show in Washington. This the fourth and final revision is where we believe it stops! Truly this has to [...]

DECWARE ZENFEST 2008 PICTURES

Steve Deckert — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:32:56 +0000

Here are a few pics from this years fest! We had more tube gear and speakers than we could all listen to in 3 short days! Click on the more link below to see some additional shots of our annual get together!

Live Broadcast / DECFEST 2008

Steve Deckert — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:10:21 +0000

http://win.2.c3.audiovideoweb.com/2c3winlive6749 We will be broadcasting parts of the fest starting Friday and ending sometime on Sunday from the link above. This is an un-compressed 44 kHz stereo feed from a stereo microphone array hanging in the center of the room. You will be able to clearly follow the conversation and listen to the various speakers and amplifiers. [...]

DECFEST 2008

Steve Deckert — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:00:58 +0000

It’s that time of year to start planning for Decfest 2008! It is the first weekend in October, Friday Saturday & Sunday. This is just a reminder to schedule it in your calendar now. More information

DECWARE Gets a New Website !

Steve Deckert — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:12:33 +0000

We had to rewrite our entire web site (750 pages of content not including the forums) to keep up with the times! Be sure if you visit it and have been there before that you refresh your browser a lot so it loads in the new pages! Writing a new site certainly wasn’t by choice, [...]

“Wicked One” subwoofer gets even more wicked!

Steve Deckert — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:42:58 +0000

Hi Steve. I just recently build a WO (Scaled up EXACTLY from the 36×24..) with 2 Cerwin 15’s in it. I chose the v-max because of price and differences in latency, etc… with other drivers. The really high end Cerwin’s and other comp drivers seemed to have more latency and boominess (To my [...]