Stealth Octava-T Digital Cable

$5,670.00

Connector S/PDIF AES/EBU

Length 0.6 m 1.0 m 1.5 m 2.0 m

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Octava is Stealth's most advanced digital cable. It takes the company's Varidig technology and runs eight complete Varidig cables in parallel, an extension of the six-in-one Sextet. Stealth likens the idea to stacking DAC chips in parallel: better low-level resolution and resonance control, and less pre- and post-ringing, which it hears as a cleaner, more natural digital presentation.

The Octava-T adds Stealth's sliding tuning collar, allowing the cable to be fine-tuned to the system it serves. The collar is moved in small steps while listening until the sound locks into focus.

Construction

Eight complete Varidig cables run in parallel, each individually shielded
Each Varidig run: solid-core centre (signal) conductor with a quad-layer, variable-pitch LITZ return
Varidig principle: porous Teflon dielectric that is thicker in the middle of the cable than at the ends, with conductors that taper towards the terminations
Holds the correct characteristic impedance across the whole cable including connectors (75 ohms S/PDIF, 110 ohms AES/EBU), greatly reducing signal reflections
Twisting pitch varies along the length to break up internal resonances
Kevlar used as the cable core
Stealth custom RCAs: Teflon dielectric and solid silver contacts; Stealth custom XLRs: Teflon dielectric, light hollow solid silver contacts, Kevlar supports, machined carbon fibre shells
Tuning collar: a sliding ferromagnetic collar moved along the cable while listening; at the right spot the sound comes into focus, much like a lens. The best position differs for every pair of components, finding it can take an evening, and a poorly placed collar sounds worse than none.