Another cable question
Please don’t respond to this if you are a non believer. Just wanted to know if anyone has had a good experience with silver or silver/ copper blend out from they’ve Dac. Currently using older Acustic Zen absolute copper. There has been a number of members saying good things about silver for digital front ends and I think I,d like to give it a try. Streamer is Aurender N200 using DH labs mirage two feeding Pontus two. Budget is $700 max and it’s seems there are a number of cables in that range, thx in advance and happy New Year!
It was purely to get to take advantage of my DAC’s i2S input. Frankly, I went in kinda blind and not knowing what to expect, but the improvements were significant and immediately obvious. |
@ghdprentice asks many of the most important questions. What specific improvements are you looking for? |
First, I have a Musician Pegasus that is a very close relative of your Pontus ll, and when I bought a DDC that allowed me to feed it with its God-given i2S input — game changer. Even using a bargain-basement 6” HDMI cable like this (and yeah, you wanna use a short an HDMI cable as possible for audio) the improvement was immediate and significant. I’d buy this DDC cause it’s basically a Denafrips Iris (that I own) clone and much cheaper… https://www.ebay.com/itm/275587756830 Once you get this taken care of, you should explore AZ Silver Reference interconnects. They Da Bomb! They don’t sound like silver. They don’t sound like copper. They just SOUND. Here are some used examples, but if you can find some used Silver Ref l or ll you’ll be very well served. Just my experience FWIW. |
Here’s another option that has been well received by other members here and may save you $$$… https://www.lavricables.com/cables/grand-30-core-silver-mains-eu-us-power-cable/ Forgot if you said you’re also looking for a USB cable, but they also make a very high-value USB cable that I actually do own… https://www.lavricables.com/cables/ultimate-silver-dual-usb-a-b-interconnect-cable/ |
