habermas
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| Moderately priced power and optilink cables? The entry level Audioquest power cords are amazing value for money. I started with the moderately priced NRG Y3s and at the end of the rabbit hole ended up with their Niagara 1200 power conditioner and Blizzard & Monsoon cables :) I had for h... | |
| Yamaha or Cyrus I’ve had the Cyrus CDi for 2 years before a serious upgrade recently. Highly recommended, it has the PRAT of Cyrus but is not as forward as the separate DACs from Cyrus. Highly musical and punches way above its weight. I had used it for a long tim... | |
| What is the best speaker cable for Wilson Sabrina X? I second @williewonka ’s recommendations. I tried out many cables during the last 2 months, I have yet to hear a cable loom sounding as natural as the Zavfinos. I have a loom of Zavfino Prima mk.II, Fusion RCA mk.II and Highlands mk.II phono SME D... | |
| What are your I2S cable recommendations? @fthompson251 If your question is about the length of my DH Labs cable, it's 1m. Anyways, I²S connections, even the balanced ones should be kept at minimum. | |
| What are your I2S cable recommendations? So just received my DH Labs HDMI 2.0 Silver plated OCC Copper cable. It cost me less than 100$ with shipping included and is easily an improvement in clarity and focus over my Audioquest Carbon HDMI I used until now that costs double its price. It... | |
| Jay, cdt2 @audioguy85 I have both the Cyrus CDi (which is the same as the CDt but with an internal DAC) and bought a Jay's Audio CDT2 Mk3 recently. Hooked up to my Holo May KTE DAC, it's not even remotely the same league... The Cyrus sound is fun and all I... | |
| What are your I2S cable recommendations? I second this question, using for now an Audioquest Carbon HDMI, but not much information out there on good HDMI cables for I²S. | |
| Which complete set of cables to try out? @soix yes, I agree and it would be basically free to do. But to be honest, I don't hear much of a change since I swapped my cables back in the correct direction from Zavfino. I would need a few more days of listening to be sure perhaps. @cd45123... | |
| Which complete set of cables to try out? Just checked a thread about it, it only takes imgur apparently. Thanks for the link, I will try to invert the cabling (sigh... that hassle again haha) and report back if I hear any changes. | |
| Which complete set of cables to try out? Now it should work | |
| Which complete set of cables to try out? Just checked in my installation, I installed the cables in the direction of the lettering except for one jumper that I just corrected. I.e. the "Z" from Zavfino is in the direction of the amp and the "O" is closer to the speaker. Same logic with t... | |
| Which complete set of cables to try out? @thyname Oh I didn't know that. I was wondering as well, about that, didn't get any diagram and put the cables randomly. Could you please share the diagram? | |
| Which complete set of cables to try out? Oh I forgot to mention a small oddity (not really a flaw but still): When using this loom, the vertical plane of the music seems to have moved by 1.5 feet vertically, closer to the ceiling. It's not a bad or good thing per se, especially with my K... | |
| Which complete set of cables to try out? Update of the Zavfino loom: So I received my Zavfino loom consisting of their Prima Mk2 Speaker cables (pure PC-OCC litz 9 AWG, which is exactly the same gauge as my Van Damme Hifi Grade cable that it replaces), the Fusion Mk 2 (strands of silver... | |
| Which complete set of cables to try out? Well the delivery is planned for tomorrow. So between the new power conditioner and the loom of Zavfino cables, it will definitely be an interesting weekend for me. Even though I didn't like it, it's a shame I couldn't keep the Tellurium Q cables ... |