I was Curious
I’ve owned my Chord Qutest now for 2 years but have only just (2 months) started to use USB.
I went from using a Atlas Element USB I got when I bought my Aries G1 to a Chord Tuned Aray USB I got a few weeks ago, I was very happy with my streaming setup.
During lockdown I’ve plenty of time on my hands and I spend it perusing forums and magazines and I came across rave reviews and UTube videos about a Curious USB cable from Australia.
I contacted Curious to find out if they had any dealers in the UK and at the same time found one on eBay which I made an offer on, to my surprise the offer was accepted. It arrived yesterday morning and I immediately plugged it in and started listening to music. The upshot of that was that I couldn’t stop, all afternoon, evening and until the early hours of this morning only being interrupted by food I listened to music being streamed from my NAS and Qobuz.
Curiosity had got the better of me and my wallet. The cable is stunning with great musicality and sound staging (I know, I know it’s a USB cable and they all sound the same ....NOT), simply the best SQ I’ve heard from my systems ever. The Curious USB cable has just booked a spot for the Chord Signature Tuned Aray on eBay, who knew.
SOURCE:OPPO UDP-205 BluRay, SkyQ, Technics SL1210M5G/HexMat Eclipse/MN Bearing/Origin Live Gravity One puck/Isonoes with Boots/Jelco TK-850S Tonearm/Hana Umami Blue, PS Audio Stellar Phonostage. I also have an AT-OC9XSH as a spare cartridge.
AMPLIFIER: Bryston BR-20 Pre/DAC/Streamer & Bryston 4B3 Power Amplifier
SPEAKERS: Spendor D7 on Iso-Acoustics Gaia III’s
HEADPHONES: OPPO PM-1 with Atlas Zeno cable, B&W Pi7 S2 and B&W C5 v2.
CABLES: Analogue: Speaker Atlas Mavros Grun. Interconnect - Atlas Mavros XLR x3, MCRU Silver Tonearm cable
Digital:Audioquest Carbon Ethernet x 4, Audioquest Carbon digital, English Electric 8Switch, Chord Optichord, Atlas Optical.
Mains: PS Audio Perfectwave AC-05 x 5, Isol-8 Powerline Extreme with Quantum Science yellow fuse on input cable, Sounds Fantastic 6way Mains Blocks.
STORAGE: Synology DS216J NAS with 2 x 3Tb WD Red hard-drives. Samsung 500Gb SSD.
TV LG55B7 OLED