Reviewed by: Lee, Audiophile from Audioreview.com
Price Paid: $99 at decware.com
Product Model Year:
2000
Hi Steve,
I have been wanting to write to you pertaining to
my evaluations of the DSC-1.0 Silver/Teflon interconnects for a long time
but have been too busy...
I have been using it for almost 13 weeks
already and i want to tell U this cable is the best kept secret in the
audiophile cable business. You can actually made a lot of money just selling
this cable as it displaces very expensive and respectable cable
brands.
In the beginning.......i could hear that it is a very good
cable but did not realise what is in store 3 months down the road after
burn-in. There is this magic in the high frequencies, beautiful soundstage
and palpable quality of the vocalist voice that wants me to listen to my
system more frequently each day.
My cables are all NBS and i still
respect this brand highly.To be frank the DSC1.0 betters the NBS Signature
and Omega IV interconnects such that my favourite cds some of which sound
slightly harsh before(Linda Ronstadt's For Sentimental Reasons)now sounds
smooth and involving.This cable in my system helps to narrow the gap that CD
reproduction has been trailing phono playback and i am actually
listening more to CDs at the moment as they have never sounded so
beautiful before.
So much for all the positive attributes surely
there must be negative aspects...well it ain't really negative it is just
that because it is unshielded the cable picks up a fair amount
of interference that at times it sounds like fire crackers exploding.I
understand the cable was designed unshielded as any shielding will dull out
the inner details....but in my system i have no choice but to wrap the
cable with aluminium foil to keep out the unwanted interference.
o So
please advise how i can use the cable as it is unshielded or a better method
of shielding the cable as currently it still picks up a very small amount
of unwanted signals despite covering with aluminium foil.
o Would U
advise against using longer than 1.0 metre for unshielded interconnects?(in
situations where 1 metre is too short and 1.5 metre is required)
o Is
the wire suitable for use as speaker cables sinceit is so transparent
sounding?
I have finally found the cable that makes me wanting to
listen to my system more and forgeting the technicalities and need to
upgrade. Congratulations and Thank You for producing such a cable at a
bargain price. This is surely making a mockery of the megabucks cables in
the market.
Best Wishes.
KL.
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