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On 2/24/2020 at 5:13 AM, Peti said:

Guys, I need advice here, please. What variation/combination of this wonderful usb cable would you suggest with more bass and warmth for a system that has highs that could be at times piercing? I don't mind if I lose some openness or clarity...

 

I suggest you try JSSG360cubed (WYR  WYR, all colours connected together other than black) for more bass and warmth.

However, a single cable can only do so much if there are weak links in the rest of the system...

 

I see you have a PC or laptop directly connected to your DAC/AMP. In the past, I've also had a W10 laptop with JRiver and Roon and Fidelizer Pro (and more recently a NUC) directly connected by USB to a DAC. And IMO you can't completely get rid of that "digital glare" without doing more significant signal cleaning - by an endpoint like microRendu and/or a USB cleaner/regenerator like ISORegen. Or get a fundamentally better source to start with. The downside to these recommendations is a never ending spiral into madness, but such is life for an audiophile 🙂.

 

So try the above Lush config first, and hopefully that will be enough to stop you going mad.

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Peti said:

 

... I have been thinking to get a usb isolation device but the fact that the usb section of my dac is galvanically isolated kept me from pulling the trigger on one such device. However, I would like to ask for a little elaboration regarding the WYR WYR setting on the usb cable. How does it look like in real life? Thank you

 

Just about every DAC  designer in the universe will give a great explanation as to why their super design is totally immune from upstream issues. And you can have a whole series of galvanically isolated devices in the chain, each one of them apparently perfect.

And yet.... they're simply not perfect. I think it's more a case that the better the source (the server/streamer with specialist audiophile USB boards, clocks, power supplies etc), the less gain there is to be had from external reclockers/cleaners.

 

I don't have a diagram of WYR to hand, but just connect the White, Yellow and Red wires to 3 of the of 4 pins that are close together (nearest the red dot in the 4 + 2 pin block), and leave the black wire dangling in air. Do the same at both ends.

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24 minutes ago, mikey8811 said:

 

@TheAttorney I was also reading your earlier post and mistook TANF for Blaxius 2D as [W]BY [W]BY .

 

I guess it should be A:[W]Y  B:[W]YR .

Did you not like TANF on the Blaxius 2D ?

 

It's not possible to get TANF on Blaxius 2D because of the fixed white wire.

So I settled for [W]BY [W]BY as best sounding to me for Blaxius 2D, but it has nothing to do with TANF, which is only suitable for Lush2 (and maybe the non-D version of Blaxius2)

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13 hours ago, mikey8811 said:

@TheAttorney if the white wire is always connected, then can't you replicate TANF on Blaxius 2D as:

 

A:[W]Y  B:[W]YR

Since on the Lush 2 it is:

A:W-Y     B:WYR

unless I am  misunderstanding the notation.

 

I tried [W]BY [W]BY but it was too boomy in the bass and fat sounding.

Is there something else you can suggest for Blaxius 2D ?

 

As I understand it, "White always connected" means that White is in effect always connected to signal ground, i.e. black.

Therefore it is impossible to do TANF on Blaxius2D because TANF has none of the shields connected to signal ground.

 

Anyway, this is a moot point for me now, as I have recently moved on to different cables. Sorry about that Peter, but even though the Blaxius and Lush remain great value giant killers at their price points, it is possible to do better still, albeit at higher prices - much higher prices in some cases.

 

For other suggestions for Blaxius 2D, see my old post #644 here.

However, if you found my favourite to be "boomy and fat sounding", then I'm not sure that my other recommendations will be of much use to you. There must be some variables with our different systems that are skewing the results.

 

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I've had Lush 2 on both sides of my ISORegen.

Between IR and DAC, it replaced a USPCB hard connector, and the Lush sounded better.

 

My 2 Lush's are 0.4M and 0.8M long. I haven't done direct A/B comparisons, but my overall impressions over time is that they both sound about the same. So length is not something to worry about. One unexpected downside of the USPCB is that it is unforgiving if you accidently knock the IR sideways - the total lack of flexibility of this short hard connector means that there is more chance of damaging the USB sockets of the components it's connected to (borne from direct bitter experience). For this reason, I'd go for a longer cable that can absorb accidental knocks better.

 

Regarding my new cables, I'm not ready to post about them yet, as I'm still doing some tests on both BNC and USB.

But in a few days time, I'll post something in the "Chords new M -scaler" thread in the DAC forum, as it directly relates to others' earlier posts in this thread.

 

 

 

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