Anyone else tried the Acoustic Systems Liveline?


A pair of Franck Tschang's tuned interconnects (see Six Moons reviews) are still breaking in, in my system, but they have already "stomped" my Harmonic Technology Magic 2, HT Pro-Silway III+, and Van den Hul Orchid. While I don't have any at present, from memory I'd also say that they handily vanquish the Nordost Valhalla and Kubala-Sosna Emotion interconnects in my system. They are not HiFi spectacular, but are the most musical and least electronic sounding cables I've ever heard. Interestingly, several recording that have always sounded compressed and confused in spots, which I just attributed to the recording, are rendered cleanly for the first time with these cables and no other system changes.
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Bigkidz,
Agree with your description of the Coincident linestage.One clarification, it has no resistor in the signal path.
Regards,
Pani, I agree with you about the Crimson Musiclink. I did replace my Musiclink between the DAC and preamp with the Teo Liquid Cable STD Mark 11. It is much better and at 8 times the price it should be. It's the best IC I've heard and definitely better than the Liveline. I still have the crimson between the preamp and the amp. For the price, it has no right to be this good. If you can try a Teo you should. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. It's expensive but I was lucky enough to find a used pair for $1,000. What a bargain that was.
With the ASI, music is on 24 X 7...

HiFi Rig: ASI Liveline power cable + Cambridge Audio Cxn + ASI Liveline Reference IC + Quad 405 MK2 + Cat5 + Piega Classic 3.0