If anyone wants to consider what I feel to be the best USB cable have an audition of the MasterBuilt Ultra USB. It doesn’t come cheap but the delta compared to any other cable I’ve used is significant
Hi Blue 58,Hi Malcng, for what it’s worth I had the Intona Ultimate on demo and found it to be very neutral to the point of being cold, boring and uninvolving. The Sablon is, in my system, transparent, balanced, great presence and supremely musical as are all Sablon cables. I would definitely try to audition one against your other choices.
cheers
Blue58
SteveIf anyone wants to consider what I feel to be the best USB cable have an audition of the MasterBuilt Ultra USB. It doesn’t come cheap but the delta compared to any other cable I’ve used is significant
Hi WillSteve
Could you share your findings in comparison to Intona ultimate and sablon evo ?
Not familiar with MasterBuilt, do you know what the build design is?If anyone wants to consider what I feel to be the best USB cable have an audition of the MasterBuilt Ultra USB. It doesn’t come cheap but the delta compared to any other cable I’ve used is significant
Not familiar with MasterBuilt, do you know what the build design is?
A mu-metal chassis for Extreme , ‘too’ extreme?
I have some mumetal sheets in my older server .Never say never, but it would be definitely be extremely expensive
I have some mumetal sheets in my older server .
I purchesed that 5 years ago as an experiment,
I glued them to the chassis .
This is very effective but must be careful as it might decrease amount of detail
( this is what I noticed with DIY sever)
can test it but not sure were to use them on extreme
just around chassis or other place ?
Thanks! I went to their site and read through it, they do a great job explaining things, something I don't see often.PRODUCTS | masterbuiltaudio
www.masterbuiltaudio.com
Man, Emile and the folks at Taiko have enough on their more-than-full research/production plate without adding this project!Easy to test, chuck the toroid from the chassis, listen to that starting point and play with your shielding, seprately shielding the toroid and other main components is my prefered method.
nobody HAS to try this, yet given how large the impact of well thought out shielding plan can be I'd say the effort is well worth the experiment at the level they are playing ;-)Man, Emile and the folks at Taiko have enough on their more-than-full research/production plate without adding this project!
Welcome! You won’t be disappointed.Hello, this is my first post on this forum - I am not generally a forum poster, so go easy on me.
I ordered an Extreme 12 weeks ago and am very keenly awaiting it’s arrival. It has been built and is on its way, but nothing is straightforward with shipping these days. I was very lucky to have one to audition at home for about a month and, having got used to having it, going without is very hard. But absence makes the heart grow fonder, I hope.
Having re-jigged my rack, I am going to need a longer (1.5m) USB cable. Is there any consensus now as to which ones pair well with the Extreme USB card, or is it also DAC dependent? I noted that Emile recommended Intona Ultimate at one point, but then seemed to withdraw/qualify that. The reason I’ll need a longer cable is that I have accepted the logic of placing the Extreme on one of two bottom shelves in my system and that actually suits me better as well now, apart from having to purchase a new USB cable. I have noticed though that some people have it on a top shelf, which is what I used to do. Does it make much difference regarding noise/sound quality?
Hope you don’t mind all the questions, but I am keen and eager to get back the best sound that I have ever had in my home.
Edit - looks like it is arriving Monday.
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