I am a huge fan of audience digital cables and I also love my Audience FrontRow speaker cables. Not a fan of their interconnects or power cables anymore.
If you dismiss Audience Ethernet and Studio One USB cables you will be missing out big time. Don’t box yourself in. I’ve neotech interconnects and speaker cables. Good but not Audience FrontRow level by any stretch of imagination.
Are all R2R dacs slow and soft?
I've tried a few.
Border Patrol, Sonnet, MHDT, Mojo, and a few others I can't recall.
They all seem to have a slow, soft rolled off sound that lacked detail. The Mojo being the exception, but was still on the softer side.
I'm now interested hearing the LTA Aero and the May Audio Spring.
If anyone is familiar with these 2, is it more of the same, or do either one of these stand out from the rest of the crowd?
The reason I'm looking around is I have a PS Audio DirectStream MK2 with the Airlens, and it's very nice and super detailed, but on some recordings, it can be pretty unforgiving and bright. I'm looking to take the edge of without the sound turning soft and mushy, and lacking detail.
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+1 And since the Venus 15 is essentially the same as the Terminator 2 mentioned by dpac996, that makes three of us contesting the idea that it is slow/soft. I've had two other R2R DACs which I would not describe as slow or soft. But I suppose softness is relative; if one is used to a bright component, a neutral one may sound soft, even if it is more accurate. |
@mclinnguy LOL, if you've ever owned maggies, you know you find the "perfect" spot every few weeks.....so yes. |
If a power cable, ethernet, interconnect etc objectively changed the sound (they don't) they would do so for every component they were connected to. The belief that a cable is the cause of an R2R dac soundung "soft" but a different one sounding "hard" is the silliest thing I've read in a while, and I read a lot of silly stuff here. |
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