Have a friend in Japan who you might consider a fanatical audiophile. His club in Nagoya spend the most ridiculous amount of time trying out what seems to me outrageous tweaks
His latest "discovery" is a Waversa USB cable between his Luxman media player (a Lumin in disguise) and an Accuphase amplifier
The sales literature states:
The WVSHEILD USB2 is an audio-grade USB cable with VSHIELD technology.
It utilizes a custom high-quality aluminum USB2.0 terminal of Waver's Systems design to ensure long term performance with VSHIELD technology.
VSHEILD is an advanced technology of Waver's Systems that fundamentally protects a signal from the inflow of noise generated by characteristics inherent to the cable's housing. Although some of these technologies have been adopted in high-speed RF transmission, we have further enhanced this design to minimize the effect of noise on the audio signal. It was developed to block noise by implementing a copper shield method for each wire, not simply by winding an expander around an existing cable. This makes the background quieter, the contours of the bass more clearly defined, with the highs reproduced smoothly without any hesitation.
In order to manufacture VSHIELD cables, Waver's Systems has developed and produced a dedicated device to create a wire shielding through a pain staking hand crafted process.
The high-speed communication cable of Waversa Systems consists of OCC silver-plated conductors for the twisted pair, with the VSHIELD copper shielding applied over it. This completely blocks noise from any external digital transmission, which is the main cause of digital audio noise, by blocking not only the noise emitted to the outside but also the noise of the cable itself.
At any rate, he and his friends are pleased, for the time being that is.
Cost? About Ɏ48000 (R5600,00)
His latest "discovery" is a Waversa USB cable between his Luxman media player (a Lumin in disguise) and an Accuphase amplifier
The sales literature states:
The WVSHEILD USB2 is an audio-grade USB cable with VSHIELD technology.
It utilizes a custom high-quality aluminum USB2.0 terminal of Waver's Systems design to ensure long term performance with VSHIELD technology.
VSHEILD is an advanced technology of Waver's Systems that fundamentally protects a signal from the inflow of noise generated by characteristics inherent to the cable's housing. Although some of these technologies have been adopted in high-speed RF transmission, we have further enhanced this design to minimize the effect of noise on the audio signal. It was developed to block noise by implementing a copper shield method for each wire, not simply by winding an expander around an existing cable. This makes the background quieter, the contours of the bass more clearly defined, with the highs reproduced smoothly without any hesitation.
In order to manufacture VSHIELD cables, Waver's Systems has developed and produced a dedicated device to create a wire shielding through a pain staking hand crafted process.
The high-speed communication cable of Waversa Systems consists of OCC silver-plated conductors for the twisted pair, with the VSHIELD copper shielding applied over it. This completely blocks noise from any external digital transmission, which is the main cause of digital audio noise, by blocking not only the noise emitted to the outside but also the noise of the cable itself.
At any rate, he and his friends are pleased, for the time being that is.
Cost? About Ɏ48000 (R5600,00)
