Lautus

Graham Slee wrote: The cable is designed to suit the Majestic and Proprius, and probably wouldn't be effective with anything else.

John C made me a balanced 1.5m TRS to XLR pair for my Majestic and it inputs to the balanced analogue XLR sockets on my DEQX processor. Digital music sounds really stunning and considerably better than anything I have heard before so maybe I am just lucky? (I have no idea if this is called R-3 though)

Drewan77 wrote:   John C made me a balanced 1.5m TRS to XLR pair for my Majestic and it inputs to the balanced analogue XLR sockets on my

Edited by Ash - 12 Jan 2015 at 8:35pm

Was just about to say that it's probably a balanced CuSat50 if the diameter is reduced (and no ferrites placed). Easy mistake to make on first glance as they use the same braid design. Funny how the "often sounds better than vinyl, grrrr" comment fell on post 666...  That's the future of digital audio though; to be brought up to vinyl fidelity. Don't understand why so many listeners focus on the frequency response and noise floor of digital audio when it's the phase response that's the main problem........... There's some really dynamically-flat digital audio out there too although that's just poor mastering, I think, not that the medium isn't able to accommodate the dynamic range.

Edited by Ash - 12 Jan 2015 at 9:00pm

The R-3 is an unbalanced cable and I think the Majestic to Proprius connection it gives is just slightly better IMO than the excellent balanced jack to XLR lead Andrew has. It's really close as the GSP DAC/Amp combination is what makes things work so well, I think the R-3 cable simplifies the connection as Graham explained earlier.

The balanced operation of Andrew's cable is a different way of reducing interference to the ferrites on the unbalanced Lautus cable.

My R-3 is only 0.6m so I asked John Cadman to make me a Cusat50 version without the Lautus RFI suppression. It replaced my DIY version of an R-3, which worked as proof of concept but was surpassed by the GSP R-3.