Balanced XLR in oxygen-free copper, Tri DNA Helix, twelve strand groups — the previous generation of Wireworld’s value interconnect, at legacy pricing. Series 8 Oasis, and a retired product: Wireworld’s current equivalent is the Oasis 10, and the old Oasis 8 URL now redirects there. This is remaining stock. Oasis is the tier where Wireworld uses plain oxygen-free copper rather than the OCC-7N used from Equinox upward. That is a deliberate specification difference, not a corner cut — it is what places Oasis where it sits in the range and prices it where it does. The geometry is Tri DNA Helix: three conductors, twelve strand groups, 24AWG for the balanced version. Insulation is Composilex 3, the Series 8 generation. Wireworld is unusually direct about what changed at Series 10 for this model. Their Oasis 10 page states that the upgrades over Oasis 8 are more strand groups and Composilex 5 insulation. Conductor material and gauge are unchanged between the two. This is the balanced XLR version, sold as a pair. Balanced wiring carries the signal as two opposite-polarity copies and cancels noise picked up along the run; use it whenever both ends of your chain have XLR sockets. Features Balanced XLR, sold as a pair Oxygen-free copper conductors Tri DNA Helix geometry: 3 conductors, 12 strand groups 24AWG balanced conductors Silver-clad OFC plug contacts Superseded generation — the current equivalent is Oasis 10 Specifications Type: Balanced XLR analogue interconnect, sold as a pair Status: Retired.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 Oasis 10 page. Legacy stock Current equivalent: Oasis 10. Wireworld states directly that the upgrades over Oasis 8 are more strand groups and Composilex 5 insulation Position in the range: Below Equinox, above Solstice. The top tier still using plain oxygen-free copper Conductor material: Oxygen-free 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.
