Dream Loudspeaker
The Dream loudspeaker cables are our
best-to-date speaker cables. It took over
two years to develop them. Many prototypes have been made, and
we listened to them extensively, but
none of the earlier prototypes made it into beta testing -
because none of them sounded sufficiently better than the Hybrid MLT...
This one does.
The Dream stereo set consists of
two thick, round cables - which are 35 mm (1.37 inch) in
diameter. The cables split at the ends into positive and negative
runs.
A simplified cross-section is shown
below:
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The outer layer
of the Dream cable is made of 12 wire assemblies and 4 spacers
(dividers);
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Each wire
assembly is 6.35 mm (1/4 inch) in diameter, made of 8 individually insulated
solid core wires in our proprietary non-resonant distributed LITZ
configuration; two different thicknesses (gauges) of 99.999%
pure solid core copper, and two different gauges of 99.997%
pure solid core silver are used - per each wire
assembly.
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The wire
assemblies are wrapped around a
hollow, flexible para-vacuum* center multi-core (flexible
Helium-filled tubing).
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Three wire
assemblies being run side-by-side create wire bundles (triple
runs). Therefore, there are four wire bundles (triple runs) in
each Dream cable.
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The four wire
bundles (triple runs) are separated by
four blue foam Teflon dividing runs (spacers).
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The spacers have
the dame diameter as the wire assemblies, i.e. 6.35 mm (1/4 inch).
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Using dividers dramatically reduces the overall cable capacitance
and thus assures stability (non-oscillation) of any amplifier.
In addition, these four equally
distributed spacers-dividers allows internal bi-wiring with
Dream cables without any performance loss**
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The four triple
runs (wire bundles) are being run individually for internal
bi-wire. For single wire, two triple runs being run in
parallel make a positive run, and the other two make a
negative run.
PRICING
Suggested retail price is $8,800 for a 2 meter pair, and $4,000
for each consecutive meter.
(1.5 and shorter pair of Dream speaker cables is
$8,000)
Bi-Wiring adds $1000 regardless of the cable length;
* STEALTH
para-vacuum tube is a hermetically sealed flexible tube filled
with Helium; fist, Helium is approximately 15 times lighter than
air, and therefore its energy storage properties are extremely
good: about equal to that of a 15-fold vacuum; the dielectric
properties of such environment are even better: Helium is inert
and has no ozone or other ionized molecules, and therefore there
are absolutely no leaks of any kind - and this is better than
any realistic vacuum. In addition, being surrounded by Helium,
the wires will never oxidize or deteriorate. And the last - but
not least, sine - unlike any vacuum - the Helium pressure is
exactly the same as the atmospheric air pressure, there is
nothing to force our Helium to leak, plus the tubes remain
flexible, and the Dream cables are user-friendly - unlike all
other "vacuum" cables (which are very stiff and inevitably lose
vacuum with time - i.e. unlike the Dream, need periodical
service to maintain the performance).
** In other words, internal
bi-wiring with Dream cables offers practically the same performance as true
bi-wiring (but obviously true bi-wiring offer double the
effective (combined) gauge;
Some of the very first - beta testing - Dream speaker cables
were made in white color code, as shown below. Both white (beta)
and blue-black (production) versions
are internally the same.
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