Chord Epic streaming cable

Direction is: From the wall socket (NAS) to your streamer

And the Indigo and Sarum are even moreso 

Obsydian posted:

And the Indigo and Sarum are even moreso 

???? Obsydian,....Don't forget Vertere...

/Peder???? 

Obsydian posted:

And the Indigo and Sarum are even moreso 

pretty sure they do...but that is out of my budget :-(

T38.45 - Was just saying the range gets better as you go up 

PEDER - I am sure we will have the £5 cable is fine mob here soon 

Sarum is on the way for test:-) just to have a benchmark of course....... dealer calls me 5min ago!

Obsydian posted:

PEDER - I am sure we will have the £5 cable is fine mob here soon 

???? Obsydian,...????????????????.

/Peder ???? 

but is it £445 better than one of the £5 cables, have you compared any others?

I have used standard cat5/6 what were lying around, Supra Cat7, Ghent/Belden, Amazon £5, Chord C Stream, AQ Vodka, Chord Indigo and Sarum, currently looking to move to a Synergistic Research.

So i can safely say i have tried a few (wasted a few quid), the latter few where the best.

Some notice no benefit, best to loan and decide yourself.

same...i tested some no-name cat 5-6, AQ Forest, Cinnamom, Vodka, Chord Epic and Shawline, Phonosophie....next step (as mentione) is the high-end range from Chord just to see if there is a big gap in SQ. The Phonosophie cable was by far the most extreme cable in that row...the SQ moves from "recording studio" to "concert hall"... so if you need more "space or air" around your set-up this cable is highly recommended BUT - and this isreally a warning- it's extreme and you should not buy it without listening!

I just replaced a throwaway patch cord with an Oyaide IS-707 Cat 7, ordered from the auction site and shipped from Japan. Nicely constructed with the fancy MFP8 RJ45 plugs and not crazily priced. Whether there is any variation with ethernet cables is certainly subjective but I definitely hear a subtle yet difference in sound and IMO enough to say an improvement.

"PEDER - I am sure we will have the £5 cable is fine mob here soon"

£5 gor a bit of door bell cable? Outrageous!

Yes my switch to streamer cable cost £5, but that's not the reason I use it.

I use it because it was the best one of all the cables I tested; it beat all the so called 'audiophile' Ethernet cables I tested, a result that surprised me.

YMMV, but please test several cheap 'standard type' Ethernet cables before deciding - they aren't all the same and the best cable in your individual circumstances won't always be the most expensive cable, sometimes it could be the cheapest.

ok, I come back to this thread for further findings. I'm running now an Innous Zen MK3, 8TB internal drive and Roon core.  Setup, build, SW quality ...simply gorgeous!! Apart from that, I'll keep my qnaps for backup. SQ wise it's a big step - tunes are clearer, have more space and backround is "darker". I don't use the dedicated LANport for streaming- the Cisco gives me more /bigger "stage". Not that much difference but enough for me.  Frankly, I was hoping that NAIM would have build such ...as "HDX2"... So my NAS/Roon/switch- journey ends here.

My ethernet/LAN journey is still going on....testing now Epic, Signature and Sarum.... the gap btw Epic and Signature are not that big...Signature is more fluid, hardness is less......but Sarum....THIS is a beast. By far the best cable I tested, everything sounds so right, warm quicksilver fluid, dare to say analog "LP12! like :-) . I can not afford this cable, but it is really outstandig. Next step for me: Epic/Signature vs Tellurium Q (if I can get it for a demo)....

T38.45 - Good feedback.

Note the Signature and even the EPIC i do not believe use the TUNED ARAY and other methods, these where designed at a compromise to meet a cost.

Recall once when i emailed what cable doc as they call him (it).

The Indigo/Sarum/Sarum T/Music are the ones to go for, though a few have said the Sarum T is 95% of the Music for half'ish of the cost.

Be interested to hear you feedback on the Tellerium, i am looking at the Synergistic Research Atmosphere in the future, but no way of a demo.

I have a pair of the Epic Streaming Cables- one from switch to streamer and the other into a Synology Nas. Have heard great reports on the Innuos servers which have the ethernet pass through. 

Why would you need a switch when you can go to go from router to the Innuos and then into the streamer- isnt this one of the benefits of these products and to give better sound quality 

Dearly beloved, verily, arrow should point away from the streamer towards the source, according to my local Naim dealer. There endeth the lesson. 

Well, that’s not what it shows on the Chord website. I’d suggest that your dealer is wrong. Why not try it the other way round?

Arrow should point in the direction the signal is travelling. (To streamer)

Correct to streamer, but i must admit when i called Chord a whileback i got conflicting advise.

@Obsydian- thanks. The Sarum T costs here >2500E, so it's out of my budget. Epic > 550E, Signature > 950E... Keep you informed about TQ ....

@Richardd- I tested the build in streaming port of Innuos but I like the Cisco approach more. But you're right-  in that setup you don't need a switch :-)

Router----Innous---Streamer

The arrow of the Chord cable shows to the source means: NAS--->-->Streamer, that's what my dealer told me and it states so in the cabling describtion.

By ‘to the source’ do you mean ‘from the source’?

SORRY- yes source = NAS:-)

Chord do say connect the cable with the arrow pointing away from the source component.  But hey ho,  if you're happy to believe your dealer is right,  go with it.  

Chord say that because of the Aray - whatever an Aray might be - it’s important to have the cable the right way round. It’s worrying that a Naim dealer would give completely wrong advice. Maybe Chord need to give clearer instructions.