New TEO Audio ICs, who has them?

Just to be sure, t_ramey, when you begin cooking up your own designs you are doubly into the "do at your own risk" arena. I doubt TEO wants to be responsible for home made cables and outcomes. I can see perfectly why they would not wish to divulge such information - and no one should be aggrieved because of that.

Sorry that this is so late but we had a new toy to play with and one thing led to another and time flew and here we are. So again, much sorries.

And one more thing, we kinda miscalculated the burn-in time required to get things to be at their best, and that greatly extended the timeline for the test ( we are going to continue the burn-in to see if there is any more settling to be done, and will report back if something changes significantly ).

Soooo.....the line-up for this test was the Double Double, which is basically two GC Jnr assemblies into single plugs ; two sets of a new cable, the Ultra Plus, into Audioquest splitters ; and a set of our new Reference Ne Plus Ultra cables, which are now our flag-ship cables.

The results were quite interesting. The Double Double was pretty darn amazing, especially considering the price. It didn’t beat the Ref but it also didn’t embarrass itself either. The new Ref pretty well carried the field in every parameter, but at 25x the price it should well have ( and yes this left us wondering how good a Ref Double Double could sound like ) but make no mistake about it, it was a good fight. The new Ultra Plus proved to be a very fine cable on its own, but saddled with obvious issues of splitters, brought up the rear, but it was very close to the Double Double ( we had thought the quality of the cable would allow it to beat the Double Double but the elimination of the splitters created a real unfair advantage for the Double Double ).

So there you have it. We are still exploring the limits of this cable style so at present the only cable available in the Double Double line will be the 0.6m length. But as we continue testing we hope to have longer lengths available in the very near future, so stay tuned.

And one last thing. We are also working on developing our own splitters which we hope will provide much better performance than those presently available. Once those are available we will probably replay this test.

@taras22 thanks for this summary.
Sooooo...let’s chat pricing.
2x Jr @ 0.6M run is $749;
Ultra Plus 0.6M run is $???; and
Reference Ne Plus Ultra 0.6M run $???

The typical Y-splitter is wire-based, so it should benefit from a burn-in conditioning using a Cable Cooker. Just daisy chain them together and use an extra conventional interconnect (if needed) to complete the connection between the Cable Cooker’s input and output.

Please remember to heed Teo Audio’s warning about NOT conditioning their interconnects with a Cable Cooker.

@celander

 Here is the pricing you requested.

Ultra Plus @ 0.6m is $1375 (USD)

Reference Ne Plus Ultra @ 0.6m is $18,500 ( USD )