The test setup
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We tested this trio on our reference system. We grabbed a few tracks to determine the sound signature. Think Anathema: Untouchable pt2, Gazpacho – Night of the Demon – Vulture (highly recommended, great album!), Beth Gibbons: Floating on a moment. We did listen to some other tracks as well of course, but these three tracks formed the benchmark for this test.
Reference system
- Pass Labs X150.8 power amplifier
- Sonnet Pasithea d/a converter
- AlphaPC (streaming bridge) with Jcat USB and Ethernet
- Pura Dodo power supply on Jcat cards
- Mutec MC3 USB / Mutec REF10-120
- Isotek Titan V5 filter for Pass X150.8
- YETI Reference 1000 for sources
- Yeti power-cables
- Van den Hul CNT XLR interconnect
- PSI AVAA active bass traps
Measured values are per meter or for the full 2.5m length?
As always i love reading your tests and value your opinions on everything you compare!
This is just a small suggestion, that i hope you are not offended by.
When testing things like cables, switches and power, have you thought about replacing phrases like “How do they sound” with “How do they influence this setup to sound”?
It might sound like a small nit picking, and maybe it is, but i truly believe that many of your readers that often might be sceptic are going to be even more sceptic when someone says that a cable has a certain sound. Isn´t it so that the cable only influences other parts of the system downstream to behave/react different and change the sound in components after the cable/switch/power. That could potentially mean that the same cable could “sound” different in another system, meaning that it doesn´t have a sound, as such? I actually think it will make a big difference what wording you use, from an educational perspective.