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Well, I got the curious regen link USB cable. Took two weeks to arrive.
I was going to wait to comment to see if Eric heard the same things I did, but this is so obvious he have to turn in his CDApS card and sell the ZMA if he couldn’t hear what this cable brings to the table.
It didn’t start out great though. Nothing remarkable through the first night of listening. But I ran music through it for 24 hours and then sat down and listened again last night.
Pretty much everything that Rob (the designer) says, it will do. Most notable is the dimensionality of the soundstage. I thought I had a big soundstage going. This increases it to a notable degree. I did some A/B with the hard connector from the regen to the DAC and without rushing to complete the A/B; you could easily hear how the soundstage shrunk with the hard connector.
Smoother delivery, spot on tone, pretty much everything else he says. Foot taping, front to back separation, all that.
One of my test tracks for anything new is Fleetwood Mac, Gold Dust Woman from the Rumors album. During the first (not 2nd) chorus, I listen to see if I can pick out Christie McVee singing backup on the right side. It’s a good detail/separation test. Anyway, not only could I pick her out easily, but it gave the illusion of her being back several feet in the soundstage, and distinct from the rest of the track.
I tried the link in front of the regen and also after the regen and got the same effect, so I believe it is due to the curious cable.
I will try to get over to the Raven’s multimedia lair to see if it has the same effect with a Windows/ Directstream setup, but I do remember Alrainbow, of the PS Audio site citing good things in a post about pairing it with the DirectStream.
So I am on a pretty good run with the WE16g wire, the regen and LPSU and now the Curious cable. Dare I try some new tubes??
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