Synergistic Research's Tricon Phono Cable

Jmo,

I take it the Tricon doesn't use active shielding. I guess I will be trying one also as all of my cables are SR now. Thanks for your sharing your findings with us.

Steve

I listened to the Tricon phono cable today in my system. I really liked it! Very quiet background, very large soundstage with good focus. It is very neutal to slightly laid back sounding in the midrange.

As several of you folks correctly said, the phono cable is probably the most difficult to get right. Audition is very important.

I ordered a .5 meter.

Steve

Sirspeedy raised a good point. I called my Synergistic dealer and he told me to come down and borrow his demo phono cable before ordering. Sounds good to me.

Nice to hear from you Sirspeedy.

I was using Revelation Audio Labs stuff. It was very good for the money. 3-4 months ago I went to the Synergistic Research Labs factory in Irvine CA-not very far from San Diego with 2 friends. I was interested in their USB cable for my USB DAC. The folks at SR were great. Ted gave us a demo of his stuff on an excellent sounding system.

Well, one thing lead to another and now all of my cables including AC cables are Synergistic. My system has never sounded better. The Wilson WP 8s with Watchdog sub, Levinson 32 preamp, and Levinson 33H amps sound just fabulous with these cables. I put a Hologram D AC cable on the Wavelength Crimson Silver USB DAC and the combination was superb.

Today I finished up with the Tricon Analogue phono cable for the Phantom/Basis Debut Vacuum V/ Koetsu Jade Platinum.

I found a Graham RCA junction box with RCA plugs in my closet. It works great with the Tricon RCA and there is no fouling of the Basis supension. The Graham box has silver wire.

I'll keep you up to date with this stuff.

Stay well,

Steve

Jmo,

It was easy to make a decision when you have a broken-in cable to demo. I will go with the .5 meter as my Koetsu Jade Platinum doesn't put out much voltage. The shorter the cable the better in this case; but naturally Ted does know what sounds best in most applications. I guess everything is a trade off in some respects.

Steve