Wireworld Platinum Starlight® 10 Twinax and AQ Diamond

Thanks. The model I’m inquiring about is their TOL Platinum 10 that uses silver conductors. 
DH Labs is a budget cable not a fit in this system - I have experience with with their Mirage USB as well as AES and SPDIF coax cables. They’re ok if that’s all you can spend.

I am auditioning Audience Hidden Treasure 🐈‍⬛ 7 now and I’m extremely impressed. However before I make my decision I wanted to hear thoughts on TOL AQ (I liked their Diamond USB a lot) and WW (had their cheap usb didn’t like). 

Thanks @fthompson251 !

I’ve spent a few hours listening today with the Audience Ethernet cable and I think I have a winner even without comparing to anything else. I don’t know what WW can do better and AQ should be good but I have this synergy now that I can’t walk away from. 

My dealer also gave me a new FrontRow Reserve Coax that I’m trying between my Audiolab 6000cdt transport and Meitner DAC. It’s just simply incredible what this cable did. I just can’t justify a $2500 coax on a $700 transport and with streaming being 99% of music source it just doesn’t make sense. But for someone who’s got a nice spinner and listens to CDs a lot this digital cable is a game changer. 

Thx! Listening last night when the house was quiet confirmed that I love the sound. 

@traubr I tried the new Shunyata Alpha X USB cable. While very good and more detailed than the Audience FrontRow USB cable I have now and the Stealth USB I had for a brief period of time, I find Shunyata lean and cool sounding. It’s not as musical, not as colorful as Audience and Stealth. Their Alpha power cords have exactly the same sonic signature. So I ruled Shunyata out for my setup. 
 

As to Meitner DAC…it’s awesome. I heard the MA3 in my system and loved it. Ended up getting a new MA3i. I have been comparing N200/MA3i to MA3i alone and I can tell you in my system to my ears they sound slightly different with N200 being a bit rounder and slightly less fleshed out but a bit fuller than the MA3i when used as a roon end point. I can say it boils down to preference. One’s not better than the other. These differences are very slight and require a trained and strained ear. I will most likely be selling the N200. Further testing needed but that’s my preliminary findings with about 240hrs on the Meitner. 

@traubr you won’t regret upgrading to the latest “i” version. It’s a great DAC. 
I’m right there with you on being able to revert to ether a streamer in the Meitner or the N200. My approach is - do I miss the sound one of them offers to want to switch back? I actually prefer the airier and more alive presentation produced by the MA3i alone. My N200 has been off for a few days now as an experiment. I feel I compared apples to apples using audience hidden treasure ethernet cable to both and audience studio one USB from N200 into Meitner. Keeping the audience house sound and level of cabling the same. When I auditioned the MA3 I preferred the N200.
The upgraded streamer in the MA3i bridged the gap. 

@buellrider97 yes. I think Audience Ethernet and USB are cut from the same sonic cloth. Even the coax resulted in the same improvement. 
In talking to a sales rep at The Cable Company it’s not an uncommon trend. Usually manufacturers who make excellent usb cables make excellent digital cables (Ethernet, spdif). 

I would highly recommend best possible quality USB cable you can afford and ditch the tweaks like USB decrapifiers, etc. unless your dac benefits from these devices in which case you should probably be looking to upgrade your dac before you buy more cables. Otherwise…address the Ethernet after the USB upgrade. 

@buellrider97 no problem  don’t get too hung up on network filters. I don’t find them to be a necessity. But that’s system/setup dependent. 

Interested in hearing your opinion when you get your dac back. Message me please. Thx