OCC-7N copper in a Tri DNA Helix, Composilex 5 insulation, and five termination combinations including a version with a ground wire for turntables. Wireworld’s current mid-range interconnect. Equinox sits fifth from the top of Wireworld’s nine-rung interconnect ladder: above Oasis, below Eclipse. The step up from Oasis is the conductor itself. Oasis uses plain oxygen-free copper; Equinox uses OCC-7N, which is Ohno Continuous Cast copper at seven-nines purity. Ohno casting draws the metal in a way that produces very long crystal grains rather than many short ones, so there are far fewer grain boundaries along the length of the conductor. Whether that is audible is a separate argument; that it is a different and more expensive way to make wire is not. The geometry is Tri DNA Helix — three conductors of sixteen insulated strands each, 21AWG on the RCA version and 24AWG on the XLR. Insulation is Composilex 5, the current generation. The termination options are unusually complete. Beyond RCA-to-RCA and XLR-to-XLR there are two mixed cables, RCA to XLR male and XLR female to RCA, for connecting balanced and single-ended equipment without an adapter. And there is an RCA-to-RCA version with a ground wire, which is the one you want between a turntable or phono stage and an amplifier — without a ground path you get hum. RCA contacts are silver-clad OFC; XLR contacts are silver-clad copper alloy. Sold as a pair in six lengths from half a metre to six. A note on what Wireworld does and does not tell you. They publish conductor material, gauge, strand count and geometry, which are real specifications. They do not publish capacitance, inductance or resistance for this or any cable in the range, and their claims about resolution and quietness come with no measurements attached. Cable is a category where a lot of assertion gets presented as physics; we would rather point at the numbers that exist and be plain about the ones that do not. Features OCC-7N copper conductors — Ohno Continuous Cast, seven-nines purity Tri DNA Helix geometry: 3 conductors, 16 insulated strands each COMPOSILEX 5 insulation, the current generation Five terminations: RCA-RCA, XLR-XLR, RCA to XLR male, XLR female to RCA, and RCA-RCA with a ground wire Silver-clad OFC RCA contacts; silver-clad copper alloy XLR contacts Six lengths from 0.5m to 6.0m Sold as a pair Specifications Type: Analogue interconnect, sold as a pair Position in the range: Fifth of nine in Wireworld’s current interconnect line: Eclipse 10 above, Oasis 10 below Generation: Series 10, Wireworld’s current generation. It replaces the Equinox 8, which is retired. Note that Wireworld’s Eclipse 10 and Oasis 10 pages each carry an explicit sentence naming their Series 8 predecessor and the Equinox 10 page does not — the succession here is obvious from the naming and from the old URL now redirecting here, but Wireworld never states it in so many words Conductor material: OCC-7N Copper Geometry: Tri DNA Helix — 3 conductors, 16 insulated strands. 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: 21AWG (0.4 sq mm) on RCA; 24AWG (0.2 sq mm) on XLR Insulation: COMPOSILEX 5. Composilex is Wireworld’s composite insulation, and its stated purpose is reducing triboelectric noise — the small static charges that build and discharge where a conductor rubs against its insulation as the cable moves or vibrates. That effect is real and well known in cable design. Wireworld’s specific claim that Composilex 5 beats every other low-loss insulation including Teflon is published without any supporting measurement. Shielding: Not published. Wireworld attributes noise rejection to the conductor geometry rather than to a braid or foil, but no shield is specified for this model Terminations offered: RCA to RCA, XLR to XLR, RCA to XLR male, XLR female to RCA, and RCA to RCA with ground wire Contacts: RCA: silver-clad OFC. XLR: silver-clad copper alloy Lengths: 0.5m, 1.0m, 1.5m, 2.0m, 3.0m and 6.0m 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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