Quad DNA Helix, four conductors, sixteen strand groups and a heavier 18AWG gauge — the highest-specified cable in this collection. Superseded generation, at a superseded-generation price. Be clear about what this is before anything else: Eclipse 8 is a retired product. Wireworld replaced it with the Eclipse 10 and maintains a Series 8 Retired Product Archive that covers it. It is not on their current site. What we have is legacy stock, and that is exactly why it costs what it costs. It is also the most substantially built cable in this collection. Eclipse is the tier above Equinox, and the step up is not a small one: where Equinox and Oasis use three conductors in a Tri DNA Helix, Eclipse uses four in a Quad DNA Helix with sixteen strand groups, and the RCA version steps up from 21AWG to a much heavier 18AWG. The conductor is OCC-7N copper, the Ohno-cast seven-nines material. What you give up against the current Eclipse 10 is the insulation generation and some strand groups. Eclipse 8 uses Composilex 3; Eclipse 10 uses Composilex 5 and, in Wireworld’s own words, twice as many strand groups. Conductor material, gauge and count are otherwise the same across the two generations. Whether that trade is worth it is your call, and it depends entirely on the price difference in front of you. What we will not do is sell you a retired cable without telling you it is retired. Offered in RCA and XLR, as a pair. Wireworld never published length options for the Series 8 cables in the archive document, so the lengths above are what we actually hold. Features Quad DNA Helix — 4 conductors, 16 strand groups, double the Tri DNA Helix used at Equinox and Oasis OCC-7N copper conductors Heavier 18AWG gauge on the RCA version Silver-clad OFC plug contacts RCA and XLR versions, sold as a pair Superseded generation — the current equivalent is Eclipse 10 Specifications Type: Analogue interconnect, sold as a pair Status: Retired. Wireworld replaced this with the Eclipse 10 and covers it in their own Series 8 Retired Product Archive. It is no longer listed on their site. What we have is legacy stock Current equivalent: Eclipse 10. Wireworld’s Eclipse 10 page states the upgrades over Eclipse 8 are twice as many strand groups and Composilex 5 insulation Position in the range: The Eclipse tier sits above Equinox and below Silver, Gold and Platinum Eclipse. Within this collection it is the highest-specified interconnect Conductor material: OCC-7N Copper Geometry: Quad DNA Helix — 4 conductors, 16 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: 18AWG (0.8 sq mm) on RCA; 21AWG (0.4 sq mm) on XLR 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 Terminations offered: RCA and XLR Contacts: Silver-clad OFC Lengths: Wireworld published no length list for the Series 8 cables in their archive document. 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.
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