The Neo d+ cables hit the DJ scene with a multi-coloured splash a while ago. And while their green, orange and purple tones became firm favourites with DJs (and stars of many a photograph on DJWORX), they only catered for RCA and USB. But now the Neo d+ XLR and TRS models have arrived.
These are the entry level class B cables, although there’s nothing entry level about them at all. Here’s the short PR from Oyaide:
d+ class B XLR series
The new XLR and TRS line from d+series
The new series bring the highest quality and a cool desgined in your sound system such as audio interface, speaker, mixer, effector, synthesizer and sound equipments.
About the product planning for the d+ series, we contemplated the best combination of materials and structure of cable for today’s music and situations.The outstanding features of d+ class B series is 18 AWG pure oxygen free copper makes powerful sound projection and reduce signal loss. The flat architecture of cable prevents the signal distortion by the interference of conductor spacing. In addition, the soft PVC outer and the stereo sprit cable’ s structure have a high degree of usability for cable connection.
There is the next generation of audio transmit technology for producer, DJ, musician, engineer and everyone.
I’m told that Oyaide will be at BPM 2013, so we’ll get to fondle these for ourselves. Prices TBA and I’ll update when I find out.
Just so you’re aware, the colour of the cable reflects the class. You don’t get a choice of colours as such, but I’ll be waiting for the orange A class, because these are just completely the wrong colour. Sounds superficial, but we all know that a lot of DJ buying decisions are made on looks.
Any of you using Neo d+ cables? How do you rate them?
I’m gonna have to check these out at BPM.
Any word on what lengths are available for these?
The range of Neo cables will be at the Vestax stand next week at BPM 2013. They come in 1,2 and 3m lengths.
Shame on you, Vestax, for supporting this placebophile nonsense!
i am a very lucky boy, i have 2 pairs of RCA’s and 1 USB, I love them and they sound exactly the same as my pure silver interconnects. My only “complaint” is they are a bit on the long side for my setup. I’m quite happy to recommend them to anyone and you can pop over to my studio and hear the difference.
I would prefer the orange or purple (as Mark says it’s a superficial thing), but they are a step up from the green.
i’m predicting voodoo pricing. this is just a piss take for the clueless.
I wasn’t aware there actually *was* a difference in cable classes. So Mr Settle, what’s the difference?
i’d like to hear proper (official) answer on this;
I thought the amount of info that can pass down must be the same but how it gets there & how cleanly it gets there may differ i guess? (from what i can tell off their website; its the materials used in the cable and the connections and the internal space design for the signal)…. its a bit beyond me.
Yeah to me it just sounds like marketing fluff. But I’m not sure enough to judge either way.
i’ve been using a ‘green class’ (joke) USB cable and it never let me down with my 380.
I do worry about how much bending it can take cos its crazy stiff which is nice but because of the stiffness it makes me worry about how much i can manipulate it into a required space.
Also not sure about this but does it matter they don’t have a ferrite thing clipped to them? Over on djtechtools they do bang on about the importance of one those being clipped around a usb cable.