ALVA Cableware

ALVA Professional Cable range – a collection of durable audio products built to the highest standards.

Forming a perfect complement to the products from RME, there’s an extensive selection of professional cables and a range of other items designed to make studio or on-stage life easier. Naturally these products aren’t just limited to use with RME devices. There’s much more on offer, for example reasonably priced, ready-made pro audio cables which, given the required specifications, can often be hard to find. Detailed technical information on the packaging reduces your chances of arriving at the studio, stage or installation with the wrong cable.

ALVA audio multicore and “snake” cables contains from four to 64 individual audio cables inside a common, sturdy outer jacket. ALVA audio multicore cables are widely used whenever multiple audio signals, for example from a number of microphones, need to be conveyed between common locations. Typical professional audio applications include audio recording, sound reinforcement, PA systems and broadcasting. The “snake” is typically used to make it easier to route many signals from the microphones or other input transducers, to the audio console or sound equipment.

An audio multicore cable (often colloquially referred to in the US and Canada as a snake cable or just a snake) is a thick cable which contains from four to 64 individual audio cables inside a common, sturdy outer jacket. Audio multicore cables are widely used whenever multiple audio signals, for example from a number of microphones, need to be conveyed between common locations. Typical professional audio applications include audio recording, sound reinforcement, PA systems and broadcasting. 

ALVA Pro Series DB25 to DB25 cables carry eight balanced analog channels between interfaces, converters and mixing consoles, in 1, 3 and 5 metre lengths.

ALVA AES/EBU Cables (also known as AES3 Cables) is a standard for the exchange of digital audio signals between professional audio devices. AES/EBU was jointly developed by the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). An AES/EBU signal can carry two channels of PCM audio over several transmission media including balanced lines, unbalanced lines, and optical fiber. AES/EBU has been incorporated into the International Electrotechnical Commission’s standard IEC 60958, and is available in a consumer-grade variant known as S/PDIF.

ALVA DB25 to 4x XLR male and 4x XLR female AES/EBU breakouts connect eight channels of digital audio to devices with XLR digital inputs and outputs.

ALVA Multichannel Audio Digital Interface (MADI) or AES10 is an Audio Engineering Society (AES) standard that defines the data format and electrical characteristics of an interface that carries multiple channels of digital audio. The MADI standard includes a bit-level description and has features in common with the two-channel AES3 interface. MADI supports serial digital transmission over coaxial cable or fibre-optic lines of 28, 56, or 64 channels; and sampling rates of up to 96 kHz with an audio bit depth of up to 24 bits per channel.

Genuine replacement breakout cables for RME interfaces and cards, including MIDI, digital and analog breakouts for HDSP, Fireface and Babyface models.

ALVA FireWire cables in 4-pin, 6-pin and 9-pin combinations, for connecting FireWire audio interfaces and devices reliably.

ALVA optical Toslink cables with metal-shell plugs carry ADAT or optical S/PDIF digital audio between interfaces, converters and preamps.