Julot
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ARTISAN SILVER CABLES - Ultimate Silver Stream "Double-Purity" pure silver USB cable
I have a new showroom that is more revealing than the one I used to have, and have accordingly become more picky with my accessories because the difference they make is more audible. This sent me on yet another quest as I discovered that a USB cable can make much more of a difference than I had experienced before.
I had seen the idea of that "double USB" with one USB A for power and one for the signal discussed somewhere on the forum before, but didn't pay attention. It is actually not what I ordered, but then Alistair (the Silver Cable Artisan...) convinced me to try the double instead of the regular one. There's one USB B on the DAC side (in my case the SOtM USB to SPDIF interface), and two on the server side. Once the music works, i.e. the DAC and server had their "handshake" and are logically connected, you actually unplug the power part. Of course this requires a DAC that is self powered and a DAC/server logical connection that doesn't reset the handshake (the "handshake" is done through the power wires in the USB cable which is why you can't do away with those cables).
Even though my Antipodes server has a power off USB output and I've been using it before, the effect of unplugging the power cable were very spectacular: much more air, and much deeper timbres and richer harmonics, with a sense of depth added to the stereo imaging.
Artisan Silver Cables has a no question asked 30-day return policy, so the only thing I have to say is: you shoud try it if your system can take it (self-powered USB on the DAC, two USB outputs on the server, capacity to unplug one of the cables without moving your cabinet, etc.)
I have a new showroom that is more revealing than the one I used to have, and have accordingly become more picky with my accessories because the difference they make is more audible. This sent me on yet another quest as I discovered that a USB cable can make much more of a difference than I had experienced before.
I had seen the idea of that "double USB" with one USB A for power and one for the signal discussed somewhere on the forum before, but didn't pay attention. It is actually not what I ordered, but then Alistair (the Silver Cable Artisan...) convinced me to try the double instead of the regular one. There's one USB B on the DAC side (in my case the SOtM USB to SPDIF interface), and two on the server side. Once the music works, i.e. the DAC and server had their "handshake" and are logically connected, you actually unplug the power part. Of course this requires a DAC that is self powered and a DAC/server logical connection that doesn't reset the handshake (the "handshake" is done through the power wires in the USB cable which is why you can't do away with those cables).
Even though my Antipodes server has a power off USB output and I've been using it before, the effect of unplugging the power cable were very spectacular: much more air, and much deeper timbres and richer harmonics, with a sense of depth added to the stereo imaging.
Artisan Silver Cables has a no question asked 30-day return policy, so the only thing I have to say is: you shoud try it if your system can take it (self-powered USB on the DAC, two USB outputs on the server, capacity to unplug one of the cables without moving your cabinet, etc.)
