Teo Game-Changer IC's - get on the bus!


I wrote an extremely long review of 4 cables auditioned in my system recently. I pontificated for way too long and it was more an outlet for me to tell a story that cables do matter and how much each design can make your system sound. The last cable through was the Teo GC IC purchased here and it truly was a game-changer in how it shifts our paradigm about what wire gives us as "truth" and what this slurry of Ga-In-Sn can do better (IMO). Not a technical review but an emotional roller coaster through 4 different topologies:

Ribbons
Graphene
Multi-strand
Liquid

I'm happy to re-broadcast that here but it is very long (6+ MSWord pages long). I'll point to it for now and take your advice.

Bottom line is the GC cable is truly stunning in what it can do and for us mere mortals who cannot spend thousands on cabling, I believe it can elevate anyone's system to new heights.

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=148932.0

Pete
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The GC and -Splash Rs’ RCA cables are now available in 2M length.

Delivery time periods have also dropped down notably.

All caught up on back orders - for the moment, that is...
Macbook pro 8 gigs,  ssd hard drive

Yah, check the Audio MIDI Setup in the Utility folder on your MacBook Pro and confirm the Master volume is set to 1.0. I'd start there.

The GCs should shine so I'm thinking there might just be a tweak needed elsewhere in your system to bring them alive.
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Waiting for UPS to deliver my second set of GCs...

Delivery today @tommylion ?

Where are you using the first set in your system and where will the second set be going?
Yep, getting them today. I ran the first set between my DAC and pre, but, now that they're well broken in, I switched them to between my pre and amp. I'll put the new set between the DAC and pre. That way, they should break in faster, and I don't have to leave my (tube) amp on.
Very sweet @tommylion - I hear you just received them... let us know initial reaction and then again once they've settled in... prepare for some wonderful musical bliss...
I'm a big fan of Audio Note UK. I have a pair of their E speakers, and their original Kit 1.1 DAC in my system. I hope to get more/better AN gear in the future.

I have never tried, or heard, their uber expensive silver ICs (Sogon, SOOTTO). However, in the last few days, I've been reading accounts by some who have experience with them. After adding the second set of GCs to my system, I was struck by the similarities between what they were describing, and what I was hearing in my system. Again, I have NO experience with these AN cables, and cannot make any direct comparison between them and the GCs. The thought that I might be getting even a tiny taste of what they can do, for the price of the GCs, is a pleasing one, though.

If anyone has/had an opportunity to compare Teo and Audio Note cables, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Hey @janehamble how did you make out with the suggestion? Lets get that system of yours humming along beautifully...
teo_audio,

what does your least expensive balanced digital digital cable go for?
Had to give some feedback to this site on the TEO Game Changer IC after a big jump up in performane of my system. Yesterday, even though I have been trying to get a over a cold or bronchitis, I still listened to my system and right from the beginning I thought I noticed a wider and deeper soundstage along with smoother and fuller notes....amongst many other improved attributes! I listened to several discs and  all revealed the same thing. To confirm I tried a particular cut on a disc that has always had a sharp and cutoff female vocal and sure enough it sounded fuller and sweeter by a large margin than it has ever before. So I knew my somewhat clogged ears probably weren't deceiving me in some weird way.

I confirmed today what I was hearing yesterday as my ears were a lot clearer today. It seems like my cables took  close to 2 months to break in. I thought they were pretty broken in about three weeks ago. At that point I had about 200 hours of low volume level hours with sacd player set on repeat for days at a time and about 40 hours actual listening after about a months time in my system. The last 3 weeks have probably only seen an additional 20 hours of high level volume play back with no noticeable change in sound quality.  Big jump up in performance from last weekend to yesterday. I was already very happy with my Teo GC'S compared to my former IC. But now I am kind of amazed. I have been experiencing the feeling like a big magnifying glass has been put on the sound in my system and details keep getting filled in everywhere.The GC'S replaced a 1000 dollar XLR highly rated interconnect. I thought some should know that total break in may be longer than thought in some situations!




How do you order the CG cables?  The web site lacks pricing and ordering info.

Thanks
Dave
@milpai 

Teo does not make a XLR version of the Game Changer. I was slightly apprehensive going to a RCA but it I am absolutely thrilled with the results. 
My second set of GCs is broken in and sounding great. One of the things that strikes me when listening is how easy it is to follow the individual lines of various instruments in complex music, much like it is at a live acoustic performance.
As Brandon Flowers might say, if he's an audiophile, "These Game Changer ICs are killer!"
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Still.. tick-tick-tick..pondering a balanced version. Gonna do some tests, to see what we can do.

The fluid conductor and it's behaviour is uniquely suited to balanced signal transfer and it's design intentions.
What a ridiculous thread over on CA @randy-11 - not sure how that adds to the discussion here on these excellent ICs.

@dlcockrum - teehee... probably!
That doesn't have anything to do with The Bro and the Mansiere, does it?

He’s just looking to get by the forum rules and stab at something he does not understand, in any way he can.

so, without further ado:
"Liquids are the least understood state of matter ......."

"Lead author Dr Kostya Trachenko said: "This result is important for the fundamental understanding of liquids and gives us hope that we are getting close to constructing a consistent theory of this elusive third state of matter. We have good theories of waves in solids and gases but, surprisingly and despite many decades of research, not in liquids."

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-liquids-capable-short-wavelengths.html#jCp

That no one can claim that it’s not within the realm of known physics to be different, wholly different, as it actually is that.

As no one can define it. There is no theory that is known ---to cover it.

So yeah, scientifically proven to be new and different. By everyone who counts and works in the given fields.

The scientific article from physorg (june 2017) straightforwardly talks about fluids being off the end of the functional theory train.

Now add in electricity, add in voltage and current, and more, as you have a conductive fluid. Kinetics, for example. It appears to be going a good a magnitude -and probably more- beyond known and theoretically definable sciences.
Interesting... just checked out @randy-11 posts:

  Randy's posts

People like this have nothing positive to add to audio forums on any topic and only serve to drive real lovers of music away. Shame.

I ignore non sense post, why waste time, when there so many excellent post to read....teo ic GC are excellent end of the story...
Any forum, any time will have useless trolls with nothing to contribute.
randy is not the first troll on Audiogon, nor will he be the last.

Just don't feed the trolls the attention they so desperately seek.
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I have no BS to add.  I do give good technical information out.

If bumpydoo wants to engage in magical thinking that is sad.
Well I believe the sounds I'm hearing through these Teo GC's are certainly magical.

I don't really care about the how it works. I'm way more focused on the end results.... and the end results that the Teo GCs give me through my particular system are superb. 

You are nuts @meambler judging an audio product based on how it sounds!!! Crazy... lock you up...
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@randy-11 you really need to move on.

You add zero value and you are becoming circular in your comments. Time and again (me included) we have stated that we have tested different cables and settled on these for a variety of reasons.

I've done the blind tests - results are conclusive in my setup. I can pretty much tell you which cable is which if you want to? No problem.
meabler - How do you know it is the sound of the cables and not confirmation bias?You need to do a proper test.


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Let's respect Randy by ignoring him , Obviosly this thread went somewhere , Teo GC is a heck of a good ic, let's focus on it, so others can benefit from it. 
I'm not sure that I'm hearing any difference between these and my Groneberg TS Premium ICs.
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