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Teo Game-Changer IC's - get on the bus!

I wrote an extremely long review of 4 cables auditioned in my system recently. I pontificated for way too long and it was more an outlet for me to tell a story that cables do matter and how much each design can make your system sound. The last cable through was the Teo GC IC purchased here and it truly was a game-changer in how it shifts our paradigm about what wire gives us as "truth" and what this slurry of Ga-In-Sn can do better (IMO). Not a technical review but an emotional roller coaster through 4 different topologies:

Ribbons
Graphene
Multi-strand
Liquid

I'm happy to re-broadcast that here but it is very long (6+ MSWord pages long). I'll point to it for now and take your advice.

Bottom line is the GC cable is truly stunning in what it can do and for us mere mortals who cannot spend thousands on cabling, I believe it can elevate anyone's system to new heights.

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=148932.0

Pete
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tommylion
874 posts
 
The liquid metal conductor, and it's advantages, have been well discussed, but I have been doing some reading about the KLEI Copper Harmony RCA plugs that are used on the GCs:

https://kleinnovations.com/kle-innovations-klei-products/klei-harmony-plug/klei-copper-harmony-phono...

They are not cheap, or "entry level". I am curious if there are many other cable makers that use this quality of RCA plug, at this price point?
genjamon
96 posts
 
As a happy GC owner, I'm not trying to tear down the GC in any way with this comment, but regarding the KLEI connectors - yes there are other entry level cables that have used this kind of connector.  I have a number of Signal Cable interconnects with these connectors from when they were previously just called Eichmann bullet connectors.  And these Signal Cable interconnects were only in the $100-200 range.
tommylion
874 posts
 
The KLEIs are a further development and refinement of the Eichmann bullets by Keith Louis Eichmann, who invented them. Reviewers who have compared them say the KLEIs are better sounding. I haven't seen the KLEIs used on any cables, besides their own, and the GCs. There probably are some others, though.
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teo_audio
2,197 posts
 
Yes, there are probably some others.

We may have to revise the ’time for break in’ upward, as they are demonstrably different than the machined earlier ETI RCA jacks we used to use.

The ETI RCA’s are machined copper, whereas the KLE ones are folded over copper. What the single folding over does, it is disturbs the crystal lattice and takes more than 100hrs to get it’s subtleties of continuity back.

We use a specific form of pre-conditioning break in/burn in... and ask that people do not use any beak in devices or hardware techniques, other than standard listening at line level. Ie, off an fm tuner to an input ...or between a line level source at 2v rms max, into a standard 10kohm and up load. NO burn in hardware/devices.
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