Taralabs cables

First of all, I am not out here to defend Audiolabyrinth. In all honesty, I find this thread somewhat strange. That said I am an user of the topline of Taralabs cables, that is the Grandmaster evolution ic's and loudspeaker cables. And although I have mentioned various times, inte alia on the Whatsbestforum, that 'best in the world' in the context of audio does not mean anyting to me because imho people hear differently, have different tastes, have different sytems, have different accoustics to deal with, etc I am still enjoying the Grandmaster evolution cables inmensely. I have not heard anything better in my two systems but - to make myself absolutely clear aboout this - at the same time I am totally fine if you prefer other cable brands.

The real reason for me to reply is the followwing. I would like to make a short comment regarding the comments that were made on the Audio Exotics website recently with respect to the Grandmaster evolution: please keep in mind that the Audio Exotocs website is commercial driven and that Audio Exotics is not the distributor of Taralabs but only of the cables to which the Grandmaster evolution was compared. Yes, Audioexotics is using state of the art components (although in all honesty I do not understand their fondness for the Cessaro speakers) but might it be possible that their attitude was (partly) influenced by commercial reasons?

There are many audiophiles that use digital Dacs in their system, some of you have state of the art digital system's, what better way to obtain all the glory from such a system than to have a cable that will bring all the magic to your listening room, this is one of the newest cable's produced as of late by Tara Labs, really, this is the latest addition to the Evolution model line up, this is the top digital cable model from Tara Labs, Making Sense of …. Grandmaster Evolution Digital

The TARA Labs Grandmaster Evolution Digital Interconnect uses a pair of RSC® Gen 3 Rectangular Solid Core® conductors.

In the AES/EBU format, the conductors are critically spaced to ensure an exacting 110 Ohm characteristic impedance; this is the AES/EBU format used with XLR connectors.

The RSC Gen 3 conductors are smaller than the Gen 2 version, and this provides a more extended bandwidth for the digital signal.

The TARA Labs Grandmaster Evolution Interconnect uses a system of woven filaments constructed from small Teflon tubes, to expand and displace the shield further away from the signal carrying conductors.

In this way, the Grandmaster Evolution Digital Interconnect is able to reduce digital distortion, called ‘jitter’.

Jitter explains why Digital cables sound different from on to another.

The most significant reason for the different sound in digital recording and playback systems is the phenomenon of ‘errors’.

The most widely known error is called ‘jitter’. Jitter can be thought of as a timing error or a distortion of the digital bit-stream within the digital send and receive components and the digital interconnect cable.

The timing errors (digital jitter) can be reduced by using better quality cable with superior shielding to reject interference within the cable.

Thankyou Audiocrack, you are most welcome to this thread, when you get time, tell us about the performance increase with the tripoint Emperor grounding unit being used with the Tara Labs GrandMaster Evolution cables you have, cheers.

The Grand Master Evolution w/ Duel mono block HFX grounding station 1.0m/3.3ft

Extended Bandwidth - Analog Interconnect

The Grandmaster Evolution Series from TARA Labs is truly beyond belief. It is quite simply the new watershed in the art and science of audio cable design. The Evolution Series is in a class of its own, beyond all other audio cable products in the history of the audio industry worldwide.

The Grandmaster Evolution Interconnect uses the same multi-lumen air-tube concept invented by TARA Labs as used in the ZERO Interconnects and the AIR Series Interconnects originally developed in 1986. However, the Evolution Interconnect is remarkably flexible.

The Evolution Interconnect uses the same displaced and Floating Shield design together with a new Dual Mono-Block HFX Ground system with greater absorption of RF/EMI and a vanishingly low background noise.

Incredibly, the new Grandmaster Evolution Interconnect boasts a remarkably low capacitance figure of just 2 pF per foot. This means that the new Evolution has a High Frequency bandwidth that is more than 300% greater than any other high-end cable in the world.
•The most advanced air-tube technology and design
•All new proprietary "dual mono-block" floating ground station (HFX) and floating shield system
•Controlled spacing of conductor to conductor geometry, produces record low interconnect capacitance of a mere 2 pf (picofarads)
•Additionally the conductor to shield capacitance is remarkably low so the EMI/RFI coupling from the shield to conductors is negated
•The outer shield is expanded and spaced away from the conductors to such a degree that the background noise is at an all-time low
•Two layers of anti-corrosion coated SAOF-8N copper shield
•Compared to the Zero Evolution, The Grandmaster Evolution has a larger, more complex system of Teflon and Aero-PE filaments that ensure a complete air dielectric system.
•The most revealing and lifelike presentation possible
•Compared to the Zero Evolution, The Grandmaster Evolution has a high-frequency bandwidth that is 50% greater, with a stunning low level of background noise contrasted with more image outlines and fine detail
•Revolutionary liquid micro-film (LMF) dielectric ensures a linear transfer of low-level ambient and spatial information

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