Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic

@ douglas_schroeder

Thanks for  your kind word.

I have a serious system with Lansche 4.1 speaker driven by either Silbatone 300B SET or Line Magnetic 508 SET amp.

Eva Cassidy’s voice is a good test for details and clean treble of cable.

Through Audio Note and Zenwave D4, her voice is mesmerizing.

But through Teo GCii, I do not get enough details or air.

On the other hand, I prefer Teo GCii to either Audio Note or Zenwave D4 in playing Mahler’s Symphony with nice definition and decay.

Can I get such detail or air through Ultra?

Or I need to go for Kronon to get such details?

But I am not willing to spend more than 2K$ on IC cable now.

shkong78, you are encountering the questions that happen when you upgrade and mix cables; some of the results may sound superior with a part of your collection, and some results may sound relatively inferior. I say "relatively�" because the result is far better than previously with one interconnect. We tend to get increasingly picky, even with fantastic improvements in the system. I know that even when the rig gets an amazing improvement, my ability to nit-pick details if I wish is almost unlimited.  :)

I would presume that as is the case with most cable brands, when a person moves up the line in a product the performance will improve. Whether the precise detail of sound quality you wish for will materialize given any particular interconnect, no one can say. It is possible that pairing two of the GC2 or two Kronon would be better than any mixed set. There is no way to know, and no way to predict accurately. One simply must conduct comparisons to know. 

I’m not sure the GCII is burned in yet..and, importantly... do not burn it in with any form of burn in hardware. Do. not.

It takes a good 100 hrs to burn in. Burn it in via listening at line levels.

We do indeed have regular GC Ultra RCA cables, yes.

Advertising costs on the audiogon forum ----regardless if the item sells or not.

So ....we simply do not list all of the seven different versions of RCA cables we sell, the two new Balanced cables, the digital cables (AES & RCA), nor the two speaker cables.

@ teo_audio

I will keep burning in GC2 as you suggest.

For your information, it sounds pleasant right out of box with good overall balance and excellent bass.

But it falls significantly short of detail offered by Audio Note or Zenwave D4.



In the meantime I wish you to get your opinion whether Ultra give significantly more detail than GC2.

How about Kronon?

thanks in advance

Thomas

The Teo Audio interconnects improve significantly with in-use conditioning. Other cables will too. You should condition your cables before doing up SM assemblies. You are in for a surprise. 

Everything in terms of SQ improves when moving from the GC2 to the Ultra. I presume the Kronon improves by a significant margin over the Ultra, but I don’t personally know this for a fact as I don’t own a set of Kronon cables.