Stealth Sextet V16-T Digital Cable

$4,220.00

Connector S/PDIF AES/EBU

Length 0.6 m 1.0 m 1.5 m 2.0 m

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The Sextet is six digital cables in one: six complete Varidig cables wrapped around a braided Kevlar centre core and terminated with Stealth's own digital connectors. The parallel construction gives better low-level resolution and resonance control than a single run, while the Kevlar core makes it extremely robust and the RCA version weighs under 2 oz including connectors. V16 is the 2016 revision of the original Varidig Sextet.

The V16-T adds Stealth's tuning collar and is otherwise identical to the standard Sextet V16. Its collar uses a proprietary, Stealth-made conductive ferromagnetic composite instead of the non-conductive ferrite of the earlier V14-T, the result of two years' development. V15 and V16 are the same cable, differing only in markings.

Construction

Six Varidig cables in parallel around a braided Kevlar centre core
Each Varidig run: solid-core centre conductor and 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
Machined Teflon termination cones beside the RCAs maintain the geometry, and so the impedance, right up to the connector
Stealth custom connectors with Teflon dielectric and solid silver contacts
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.