Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic

maxima95, I have a Dual Canare StarQuad digital IC with Neutrik XLR connectors.

@taras22, I did catch up with High Water Sound at AXPONA 2019 after I realized he had some Teo Audio products. But I think we already chatted about this. 

Thank you Doug and celander for the information..

I tested another HAVE Inc. custom built DS dual Canare StarQuad integrated assembly (per “Celander Specification”). The integrated assembly is 1-ft length having an RCA male connector at one end and an RCA female connector at the other end. Burned in a set on my cable cooker and tested it with a 1-meter set of Nordost Red Dawn ribbon interconnect cables. Dramatically improved the SQ over the ribbon IC’s alone. Such an integrated SM assembly could provide a “taste” of the improved SQ benefits of a SM assembly for those who own uber-expensive IC’s but don’t want to buy a second, identical set of uber-expensive IC’s (along with 4 external Y-splitters) to test the SM of interconnect placement in their system.

HA! HAVE is right in my backyard almost. Driven by there and wondered what they were many times.....elephant head and all...

I put two pairs of Gabriel Gold Rapture (one 'r' version) on Audio Sensibility Impact SE splitters from my CDP/DAC (Cary 306/200) and tube integrated (VPI 299d) this morning and am slack jawed at the changes. Provocative. Compelling. A surprise birthday party kind of questioning astonishment.

I see more silence between images and hear more detail/microdyamics - a LOT more -  are what I've first noticed. I'm happy to post more after a bit for all the normal reasons.

I'll also say that I was even a little taken aback by the added detail placing emphasis in ways that change the balance in how I heard/listened to some familiar recordings. Kind of disturbing if you like the familiar staying that way...But cool if you're alright with shifting landscapes, changelings and shape shifters. Love a good shape shifting.

AND, my curiosity is already piqued over what contribution the y-splitter themselves are making and what the benefits might be of straight up 'double double' construction/design from the originators - some head-to-head with Teo's in-house double double vs. 2 pair w/y-splitters.

Anyway, pretty impressive difference right off the starting line. Bound to be fun to see where this sound-track runs and what soundscapes there are along the way.