Tellurium Q Black Din-Din Interconnect - Anyone Else?

Not exactly. However, I am using TQ Ultra Black XLR-XLR in my system, having also had an extended home loan of Blacks. I expect the sonic footprint of the Din-Din to be much the same.

In my opinion, the performance of the TQ range gets better as you up the range, but I have not ventured further than the Ultra Blacks because of the insane amount of money involved. The SL range may well sound better with Naim kit than the similarly priced cables from TQ, but you will only find this out by means of a home demo. Spending this amount of money on cables in particular without a home demo would be exceedingly foolish in my opinion.  

I've just got myself a TG black diamond din cable. Awesome sound. I tried the black din. It too was great. But the diamond is something special. It's so detailed. A little ott in my system at the moment maybe. But planning an amp and speaker cable upgrade this year so I'm sure it will give me an even bigger smile as I loose myself in the music 

Also heard the black Diamond din cable, worth every penny...probably works very nicely with black Diamond speaker cables I would imagine....just need a few more pennies!!!

Using black diamond xlrs in the system, tq graphite through rest of system. Aim to try the black diamond speakers too, but I also need a few more pennies! 

Hi Wenger

hope you had a good day?! Will have to save some more pennies then have a demo of the black diamond speaker cables at some point! My blacks are singing at the moment though! 

If the blacks are singing what will the diamonds do....?

Can't wait to hear! 

Interestingly the black din is directional and comes with the duration marked on it. 

Am I right there Graemeh? 

That's right. It stops working after half an hour. 

The joys of predictive text HH 

Finkfan posted:

Interestingly the black din is directional and comes with the duration marked on it. 

Am I right there Graemeh? 

No directional mark - Signal goes with text direction.

G

ah it's changed then Graeme. When I demoed one it had an arrow to mark direction. 

Black diamond is the same. No markings. Just go with the writing. 

Started with TQ Black and moved to TQ Black Diamond (currently using this one).
The Black Diamond is comparable in quality to the HighLine (had it on loan for a month) - the differences are subtle and a final choice is simply down to individual preferences. Finally settled on the Black Diamond.

I've an opportunity to test the TQB Din-Din more directly with a HiLine now so will do so to see if I'm not kidding myself about the former.

G

I found TQ Black Diamond to be of a similar sonic quality to HighLine. 

Black is different in my opinion.

Will be interesting to see how your tests go. 

Let us know how you get on Graeme

When I settled on a new DAC (no Dins) I replaced my Din-Din Hi-Line with 2 meter RCA-RCA TQB .. and am very impressed.  

I previously owned hiline din to RCA but I much prefer my tellurium q black diamond inteconnects and black diamond speaker cables. I did own a TQ black interconnect for a short time and that was comparible to the hiline however the black diamond is a big step up. It is simply breathtaking when it comes to allowing the music to flow.

Knipester I'm jealous of your Black Diamond speaker cables! What lengths are you using and how great do they sound? I hope to demo some at some point. I love the way the din sounds 

I have a three meter pair of TQ black diamonds that replaced a pair of chord signatures. My advise would be when demoing them to avoid any judgement for a good few days after installing them as they really do need to settle in or if brand new they take even longer to burn in. My TQ cables all sounded flat and bland at first but slowly day by day they started to reveal what they were actually capable of, which is very very good!

I bought a pre owned black diamond din. It had been disconnected for a few months and it too sounded a bit flat and closed in. After a few days though it began to shine! 

Adam Zielinski posted:

I found TQ Black Diamond to be of a similar sonic quality to HighLine. 

Black is different in my opinion.

I asked opinions about Tellurium Q Black some month ago (https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...q-black-interconnect), but I received only an answer! 

now seems things have changed!

well, Adam, what do you mean with "different" regarding the Black compared to Black Diamond? I own a DIN/DIN HiLine and Tellurium Q Black speakers cable and my idea would be eventually to move to a Black one, not Black Diamond.

regards,

Stefano

Stefano,

Black is a cheaper and more basic compared to Black Diamond Din interconnect.

They are both fantasic upgrades for a NAIM system. However you may find that moving from HighLine to Black may actually be a step back. If you have a possibility - test both Black and Black Diamond. It's farily easy to hear what they do.

My first DIN upgrade was a TQ Black.

My second upgrade was a battle between HighLine and TQ BlackDiamond. They are both similarly priced. In a way remarkably similar, but I eventually found that I preferred Black Diamond's presentation, how it builds a sound stage. So after a month of testing Black Diamond stayed.

Finkfan posted:

Let us know how you get on Graeme

Interesting. Not much in it between the TQB Din & HiLine, not much at all. The HiLine does just shade it in terms of the spread and separation of instruments in the mix - the TQB slightly 'thicker' sounding by comparison. Some might even prefer that in lighter sounding systems, I guess. I think if I still had the PMC .23 I'd struggle to hear much difference between them tbh. With the Ovator S-400 (and HCDR now on SN2) the subtleties are more apparent however.

G

thank you all.

unfortunately it's not easy for me to test both TQB and TQB Diamond at the moment.

anyway, reading what Graemeh wrote about TQB and HiLine, even considering the little differences evidenced, I guess that probabily the latter could be preferred in my system (SN2 + HCDR, Vienna Acoustics Beethoven Baby SE speakers).

probably, I mean...

regards,

Stefano