Wireworld - Equinox 8 Audio XLR Interconnect Cable

Balanced XLR, OCC-7N copper, Tri DNA Helix and twelve strand groups — the previous generation of Wireworld’s mid-range interconnect, at legacy pricing.

This is the Series 8 Equinox, and it is a retired product. Wireworld’s current equivalent is the Equinox 10; the old Equinox 8 URL on their site now redirects there. We are selling remaining stock and we would rather say so than let you find out later.

The conductor is OCC-7N copper — Ohno Continuous Cast at seven-nines purity, drawn so the metal forms long crystal grains rather than many short ones. That is the material that separates Equinox from the Oasis tier beneath it, and it is unchanged between Series 8 and Series 10. The geometry is Tri DNA Helix, three conductors, twelve strand groups, at 24AWG for the balanced version.

What changed at Series 10 is the insulation, from Composilex 3 to Composilex 5, and an increase in strand groups. Wireworld describes the Series 10 development as five years of work beyond Series 8. Worth knowing: Wireworld’s Equinox 10 page is the only one in this family that does not carry an explicit sentence naming its Series 8 predecessor, so the succession is obvious but never stated outright by them.

This is the balanced XLR version specifically, sold as a pair. If you need RCA, the Equinox 10 listing has it along with two mixed RCA-to-XLR options.

A balanced connection carries the signal as two opposite-polarity copies and cancels whatever noise the cable picked up along the way. It is worth using whenever both ends of the chain have XLR sockets.

Features

• Balanced XLR, sold as a pair
• OCC-7N copper conductors — the material step up from the Oasis tier
• Tri DNA Helix geometry: 3 conductors, 12 strand groups
• 24AWG balanced conductors
• Silver-clad OFC plug contacts
• Superseded generation — the current equivalent is Equinox 10

Specifications

• Type: Balanced XLR analogue interconnect, sold as a pair
• Status: Retired. Absent from Wireworld’s current range; the old product URL now redirects to the Equinox 10 page. Legacy stock
• Current equivalent: Equinox 10, which adds Composilex 5 insulation and more strand groups. Note that Wireworld never publishes an explicit statement naming Equinox 8 as the predecessor, unlike the Eclipse and Oasis pages which do
• Position in the range: Above Oasis, below Eclipse
• Conductor material: OCC-7N Copper
• Geometry: Tri DNA Helix — 3 conductors, 12 strand groups. Wireworld’s DNA Helix uses flat, ribbon-like conductor strands layered in parallel groups, instead of round strands twisted together as in ordinary cable. Their stated aim is to reduce the eddy-current losses they attribute to conventional stranded and solid conductors. Moving up a generation or a tier generally means more strand groups.
• Gauge: 24AWG (0.2 sq mm) balanced; the RCA version of this cable was 21AWG
• Insulation: COMPOSILEX 3, the Series 8 generation. Series 10 cables use Composilex 5. Composilex is Wireworld’s composite insulation, intended to reduce triboelectric noise — the small static charges that build and discharge where a conductor rubs against its insulation. Wireworld publishes no measurement comparing the generations.
• Shielding: Not published
• Contacts: Silver-clad OFC
• Lengths: Wireworld published no length list for Series 8 cables. The lengths shown above are the stock we hold
• Electrical figures: None published. Wireworld does not publish capacitance, inductance or resistance per unit length for this cable, or for any cable in the range as far as we could find. Their claims about noise and resolution are assertions rather than measurements — no test method, no figures, no independent results are given. The one objectively checkable technical claim behind the range is the DNA Helix patents, US 8,569,627 and US 9,620,262, and a patent establishes novelty rather than performance. We would rather tell you that than quote marketing copy at you as though it had been measured.
• Country of manufacture: Not published. Wireworld is headquartered in Davie, Florida, but we could find no Made in USA claim for the cables themselves anywhere on their site — the only manufacturing statement we found concerns packaging, which they say is printed in the US. A head office is not a factory and we are not going to present it as one.
• Warranty: Wireworld publishes a Limited Lifetime Warranty against manufacturing defects to the original purchaser, with damage from abuse or wear excluded. That is essentially the whole published policy — there is no itemised exclusions list, no claims procedure and no statement about transferability, though the phrase “to the original purchaser” implies it does not transfer. Proof of purchase from an authorised dealer is required, and Wireworld asks you to go through that dealer first. The ’In Groove is an authorised Wireworld dealer.