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Review #23 - Cable INTERCONNECT Dedalus Signal - Try a Ricable

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Giorgio Try a Ricable
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Giorgio F.

Source: Intel NUC i7 with Roon R.O.C.K. with linear power supply, SOtM sMS-200 with dedicated power supply

DAC: Dedicated

DAC make and model: Denafrips Terminator

Amplification system: Integrated

Amplifier: Stax SRM-006tII

Acoustic Speakers: STAX SR-009

The following review of the cable INTERCONNECT Dedalus Signal is the result of the initiative "Try a Ricable", born, in collaboration with listening groups or Hi-Fi forums, to collect testimonials from users, in their own reference Hi-Fi system. from the actual listening experience of the users, in their own reference Hi-Fi system.
The following Feedback has been created on the basis of a predefined questionnaire to which the user has returned his impressions, in a manner completely free.
We thank Giorgio for his time.

Construction and aesthetics. Did you find the cable solid and attractive?

The cable under test is an impeccably made cable, with high quality connectors and finished with an attractive yellow outer jacket. The cross-sectional area is large, but it has excellent flexibility. The connectors are clamped for optimal connection to all types of equipment.

Stax SRM-006tII
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How did you test for differences?

The listening sequences were carried out on the basis of a set of tracks, either alternating the cables at the end of the identified set, or alternating the cables track by track. This was done over several days to minimise listening variables.

How did you carry out the tests? Which songs did you use to test the cable?

The cable supplied by Ricable is a new cable, not broken in, which is why it was played for about forty hours before listening. The first sessions showed a warm sound, round, not too extended at the extremes but with a very good mid range, natural and round, very pleasant both with male and female voices. There's no harshness, as the high range is not in evidence, and no muddiness, as the bass range is not intrusive. The soundstage is wide, both frontally and laterally, giving a very good involvement.
The sound of the cable remained substantially the same up to about one hundred hours of use. After one hundred hours, the sound has perceptibly improved, especially in the bass range, where the body of the sound has appeared, finally, aligned to what has been shown by the reference cables. However, the sound remained quite closed, limited in extension, losing the finest details and what I like to call the "breath of the music". The transverse width of the soundstage also remained relatively limited, more confined near the head. The test was carried out using very well recorded classical, jazz and rock music, alternating the cables several times, to verify the repetitiveness of the sensations.

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Any differences from reference cables.
Did you find any?

Compared to the reference cables there is a certain lack of resolution in the fine details of the high range, a sort of opacity that does not allow you to distinguish certain textures of the cymbals, lacking the magic that the reference cables are able to give. Also the bass and mid-bass range appear more backward, giving a very clean reproduction but not always with the necessary impact.
After one hundred hours of listening, the high range didn't open up as I would have liked, maintaining a sonority far from the detail proposed by the reference cables. The result is an incomplete sound, lacking of that refinement in the high range that the reference cables allow, without ever generating aggressiveness and listening annoyance. A pity, given the excellent level reached in the mid range.

What did you like?

- Construction
- Musicality in the midrange
-Three-dimensionality
- Precise and captivating sound

What would you improve?

- Acute range transparency
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