Wyred 4 Sound's Recovery USB Reclocker Findings For Audio Performance. (Curated Thread)

[thuandb]

Last night, while watching the Iowa Elections, sitting across from my main system which for the last eight (8) days has been accumulating playing hours with the volume just above a whisper, to my system with the addition of the Wyred4Sound Recovery Reclocker having accumulated close to 100 hours and double that number for the Full Loom of Curious Cables, I received a new beta build for A4THIFIwiRCwARA (Amarra For TIDAL HIFI with iRC with Amarra Remote App) and a request to take it through its paces.

 

Timing!

 

Doesn't Sonic Studio know I am preparing for my Recovery USB Reclocker (RUR) review? Prepare? Beta test? Prepare? Beta Test? Both serve the membership and me and both, OK, beta test and then go back to preparing.

 

After installing the new beta, and all the steps to get the A4T and ARA going, I selected an album, the Bill Frisell, When You Wish Upon A Star, now available on TIDAL HIFI, that I had purchased earlier that evening from HDtracks, AIFF, 88.2/24, and turned up the volume to listening volume to take the beta build through its paces, and almost fell off my near field chair.

 

I had to gather myself. Seriously. Not exaggerating. What flowed from my system was a sonic quality of the kind I had never discerned before. I wasn't convinced I was actually streaming. Or even that it was really real. How to translate the experience?

 

Are you familiar with the film, The Wizard of OZ? The film starts out in sienna until the house that Dorothy is in blown away by the Tornado lands on the Wicked Witch of the West. Dorothy opens the front door and the film transfers from sienna into Technicolor full bloom and gorgeous. I was a kid the first time that happened to me.

 

And it happened again last night. This lush, vivid, 3D, dynamic, clarity but rich with auditory sub modalities just overwhelmed me. The SQ was forward as EJ had described. Forward in the sense that I was enveloped in it in the room and it took several minutes to accept the SQ as I experienced it which was never like this before.

 

I hurried through the beta test. Didn't skip anything, I didn't need to, the music was streaming without any impediments. As perfectly as one could want A4THIFI to play. Wait! This isn't only the new build, I am listening to. This is the RUR and the Full Loom finally let released at listening volume after eight days; and it's incomparable -- like nothing I have heard. Again, without exaggeration.

 

I have nothing to compare it to because what I have been listening to as far as add-on devices, cabling, tweaks that came before what has been cultivating for the last eight days is in a class by itself.

 

I have always loved my KEF speakers, they are neutral and deliver the music as clear as a bell if that's what it's feed but not cold. They were at one time Stevie Wonder's favorites. I know, so what! I do love the Wyred4Sound components they are a match with the KEFs. Don't take my word for it. Let other members who own and use Wyred4Sound confirm or challenge me.

 

The RUR's heritage is resembles all that came before. The family resemblance is startling, or not. No need for a paternity suit here. The DNA is undeniable. That's why I own W4S stuff. I have for a time longed for this quality of fidelity, which in many respects, what came before delivered but with other characteristics that essentially cancelled for me all that it gave. What to do? Felt stuck. Then added an AQJB, which reduced the brightness. Then a second AQJB that was just right as in better but not best.

 

With the RUR, I removed the AQJB X2, nothing wrong with them, they're just not needed. Or to be it another way, I don't need them in line. Perhaps in combination with other devices given their reviews one might consider them, keep them or not. With the RUR, it would be like adding to much condiments. As I said, they wonderful when needed. Just not with the RUR.

 

I will have to praise Rob Woodland's Full Loom which for some are a gift and for others a returnable gift. I just adore them. With the RUR, the Full Loom is a match made in heaven.

 

I have to add another album to Amarra Symphony Playlist as the lates André Previn, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, After Hours UHD, 44.1/16, album has played through. Hmmm, is anyone still reading this review? Next, Bill Evans' The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961, Disc 1 of 3, AIFF XLD conversion redbook.

 

There it is that vibrancy, the dimensionality that Rob Woodland describes as a characteristic of the Curious Cables when broken in. I mention this here because, the RUR and the Full Loom CC compliment themselves so well as to kissin' kin.

 

I am sure I have communicated sufficiently how taken I am with the RUR. As this is my review based on my subjective experience, with my system components, you will want to check it out for yourself and not rely on my word alone for my findings. That will then require either the lone of a RUR, or taking the device by the reins and taking off with one.

 

I, for one, am settled in with the RUR. There's not another I need. I know I accepted an invitation to run the RUR and another device in tandem, but on second thought, that was more to cooperate. I have no enthusiasm for the project so I will respectfully withdraw from that assembly.

 

Last night I had the best music listening session of my life. I employed what is considered by many to be one of the best LPS around. One might wonder but what if Richard were to whip out the SMPS and light that up, would he have reached the same conclusion as last night.

 

I would have, but I had to wait till now. Before I started this afternoon's listening session, I did just that, hooked up the RUR with the SMPS supplied by Wyred4Sound. Ask me a question, and if I don't answer, nothing's change. Let me run this by you again, just to be clear. Today, I switched to the SMPS supplied with the RUR as I was composing this three part review starting with the Prelude, then Preview and now the Review. My conclusion this afternoon has not changed from the one I was smacked with last night.

 

Oh, for Heaven's sake, you know I am not equating one to the other as equals. Just as good enough to conclude that there is no equal to the RUR which has preceded it; and surely I will not gaze into the Future and predict something better is sure to come along. For the Present, something better is here and playing in my system. So if you ask me a question about the Recovery's quality, and I don't answer you, I haven't changed my mind from the conclusion that follows. Highly recommended with or without the SMPS. It's the RUR that what I am interested in at this moment. Take one and find out for yourself.

 

Thank you for your attention,

Richard

 

Dear Richard,

 

Thank you, no, many thanks for putting it eloquently, faithfully, and beautifully. Having owned a Regen (Amber) fed by HDPLEX LPSU 9v for about six months and a RUR for 2 days, I can't agree more. Right now a short length of Elijah USB cable is connecting RUR to the DAC, but soon it will be replaced by a CC200mm.

[thuandb]

Correction: the RUR arrived yesterday that makes 24 hours or one day only. My bad.

[thuandb]

Now that the RUR has over 50 hours chez moi, it performs just like most happy users have reported: blossoming, pleasantly and surprisingly increases depth and width, envelopes this listener with rich tones and texture, top to bottom balance, and more. Comparing Regen to RUR is similar to swapping a good ultra linear tube for a more expensive and rare NOS tube, only the usual associated tube rush is missing here.

 

Highly recommended!

[thuandb]

Mine running cool, too. Powered by HDPLEX 9v, very happily.

[thuandb]

Should not run that warm to be safe. For a test, why not run RUR without Intona? BTW, how does it sound with both Intona and RUR in the loop? And, which order do you find better, Intona>RUR>DAC or RUR>Intona>DAC?

[thuandb]

I thought of getting the Intona, but your experience souns like a heads up to me. I think I'll be happy with the RUR alone. Thanks for the sharing the I fo.

[thuandb]

While pondering on the Intona, I'm getting a CC RUR link from Rob. Man oh man, what a difference does it make from my trusty Elijah link which wasn't bad at all. Just a few notes into the first track, and it gave me goosebumps already. Although unbroken in, it appears to do most if not all of what Rob Woodland said it does. I'm so glad I got it to connect the RUR to my DAC.

 

Highly recommended!

[thuandb]

If I am not too mistaken, I think it was Schiit who made the first USB reclocker device. Anyways, it doesn't really matter who made the first one - all it matters is what works in their system and how well. There is a plethora of DACs these days and nobody cares who made the ground breaking one earlier :-)

 

 

+1, good point Dev.

[thuandb]

Richard the curator tested both Regen and RUR using the same PSU (made by Uptone Audio) and preferred the RUR. Like Dev, I owned and tested both Regen and RUR using the same HDPLEX PSU and found the RUR more to my liking. Until John and Alex release their next renovation, the RUR is my favorite USB device.

[thuandb]

And then many have replaced all of them with the Intona! Or use a combo. There are many common gremlins in systems and a few unique ones... What computer, what cables (seems every cable and device out there doesn't work in some system), various power supplies, not to mention the crap our utilities send us plus the crap we add to it from all the electronic gizmos we plug in. How many SMPS do you have plugged in at your house? Computers? Everybody's situation is a little different. Hence, to each his own, YMMV, etc. have to look at it as fun to try, learn a little from others, etc.

 

People on here always ask; Will X + Y - Z sound better in my system? How the hell should we know? We really only know what is better in our own systems. Sometimes. Most people don't really know how to setup an experiment to get a real answer to their question... if they even know the real question to ask!

 

Exactly, we can only learn from one another and find which works best for our own setup until something better comes up.

[thuandb]

Gentlemen,

 

Let's focus on discussion of the RUR and avoid attacking any company, be it Uptone or W4S whom both I sincerely respect. Myself, if I ever implicitly played down Regen and Uptone while reporting on the RUR, that's unintentional and I apologize to Alex, John, and all happy Regen users.

[thuandb]

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Yes I do. I managed to use not one but two Curious Regen/RUR links between audioPC to RUR and from RUR to DAC. Very well worth it! However, if I started over I'd also look into Pachanko RUR links.

[thuandb]

Read AudioBacon review on RUR, Regen, Jitterbug, and ifi Nano.