New TEO Audio ICs, who has them?


TEO has been busy, they recently introduced the KRONOS ICs:

https://www.dagogo.com/audio-blast-three-new-cables-two-cable-makers/

I see they also have an upgraded version of the Game Changer (GC II):

https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis8e6gg-teo-audio-gcii-1m-different-physics-math-different-result...


tommylion

As expected, there will be a high degree of resistance to this from skepticism. Even friends who I have known for about ten years - who should know by now that I don't promote junk advancements - still express skepticism on some of my recommendations. There seems to be a natural resistance to novel system methods. But, when they hear it, they quickly change their tune! (pun!)

Last week I had a group in visiting to hear the PureAudioProject Trio15 Horn 1 Speakers. I had the EE Minimax DAC Supreme in the rig, and it can accept discrete opamps. I have three sets of discrete opamps I roll into that DAC. One anti-horn listener wasn't impressed with the sound. I said, "I can change it in about two minutes..." They were not buying the idea that opamps could revolutionize the performance. I did two changes over about a half hour to the opamps. They were, shall we say, humbled by the experience, all admitting how shocked they were by the sea change of sound with each set of opamps.

That's just one example of how the average audiophile seems to begin from a position of skepticism, and some never get past it. I try to stare my own skepticism down and actually try things. Cables, fuses, opamps, and now double ICs are all highly efficacious.

I told a well-known pre/amp manufacturer recently to try swapping out the fuses in their power amps. The reply was to the effect, "It shouldn't make any difference if it's not in the signal path..." SIGH! I feel like shouting, "JUST TRY IT!" My two examples I discussed with them both involved the power fuse, and that was enough to convince me of the efficacy of such aftermarket fuses.

There is no replacing trying.

Doug I agree with you, some skeptics miss a lot. Is this double IC will apply on Vynil application, like from TT to phono preamp?
Guys,

I also found Doug's doubling of SC to be spot-on, tried this 6+ years ago when I had my single wire Avalon Ascendants and the results were efficacious.

Of course, I will be trying this with my IC as well. Is there any special arrangements of interconnects when two different brands are used?

Thanks,
Wig
@wig 

The special arrangement that I would recommend is not try it with two different brands. It may well work or it may produce an oscillation not unlike the one that we had when we tried this very thing way back way ( our guess as to the cause of this oscillation was that there was a critical difference between the two legs). And it was this experience that produced the caution that both Doug and tuffy have brought up.

Now please understand that this is simply a caution because we don't know for a fact that something bad will happen but we also can't say for a fact that something bad, like an oscillation, won't happen. Do remember that decades ago shot-gunning speaker cable produced not only some spectacular sonic results but with certain combinations of cables, amps and speakers also produced some spectacular  amp destruction. 

Bottom line, when it works this mod can be filed under absolutely awesome, but we are not sure at this where the limits are.

Will comment at greater length later as time is tight right now but will leave you with the following.....when this mod works it is quite special but please use caution moving forward....and sorry for any awkward grammar and typos.
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