Driade Flow Speaker cable and ICs

cd45123

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These cables are fairly well reviewed in Europe, although haven’t heard much about them stateside.
Has anyone listened to their 405 speaker cables or the interconnects?
I want to hold off on buying these as I just found the amazing EWA cables, but these ones have me curious. They’re fairly inexpensive, too.

 

Darmstadtium

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These cables are fairly well reviewed in Europe, although haven’t heard much about them stateside.
Has anyone listened to their 405 speaker cables or the interconnects?
I want to hold off on buying these as I just found the amazing EWA cables, but these ones have me curious. They’re fairly inexpensive, too.

Hi just stumbled upon this thread. Am also considering their XLR and speaker cables to purchase. Did you end up buying anything from this brand ? If yes , could you please tell us your opinion ?
 

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Hi just stumbled upon this thread. Am also considering their XLR and speaker cables to purchase. Did you end up buying anything from this brand ? If yes , could you please tell us your opinion ?
I did buy their 404 SC and the 808 IC. Sold off the 404, have not tried the new reference 808 SC. I ended up preferring some other cables from Audio Envy/Mad Scientist/Cerious Tech that seemed to work better for me.
 
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I did buy their 404 SC and the 808 IC. Sold off the 404, have not tried the new reference 808 SC. I ended up preferring some other cables from Audio Envy/Mad Scientist/Cerious Tech that seemed to work better for me.
thanks for your response, what's your opinion on 808 IC. ?
 

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I have just ordered the flow reference 808 XLR. I will post my impression here once I get some time with it
 
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My PostNl package is yet to pass Netherlands export customs lol. Apparently they have huge delays for delivery into Ireland

I haven’t got my cables yet. I don’t think I will ever order anything from Holland again.
 

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Gosh - ok - am sure they’ll arrive soon. Am just in process of placing order for a pair of 808 RCAs, hence my enquiry..…
 
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I didn’t mean to throw no shade on driade flow. They have no control over shipping delays . But shipping time of more than a week is BS . Especially within European Union.

I ordered cables from Audiomica (Poland) same time, it came within 3 days to me
 

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Maarten (Driade) is following up with PostNL. I will surely leave a feedback here . I am actually really excited to try their XLR
 

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I did buy their 404 SC and the 808 IC. Sold off the 404, have not tried the new reference 808 SC. I ended up preferring some other cables from Audio Envy/Mad Scientist/Cerious Tech that seemed to work better for me.
Which cables did you purchase from Cerious? I’m actually considering their latest top of the line interconnects. Looking at the Graphene Lumniscate Thx
 

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Which cables did you purchase from Cerious? I’m actually considering their latest top of the line interconnects. Looking at the Graphene Lumniscate Thx
I bought their graphene Lumniscate speaker cables. Have tried them off an on, but based on some other reviews here I will likely need to let them settle longer for a few weeks.
 
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I bought their graphene Lumniscate speaker cables. Have tried them off an on, but based on some other reviews here I will likely need to let them settle longer for a few weeks.
Cool; thanks for the update. Hope they work out for you. The manufacturer is located within 20 minutes from my home so I suppose if the interconnects don't live up to the hype it makes for an easy return. Bob is certainly a nice guy and obviously very knowledgable. A shame there isn't more feedback/reviews out there. Thx
 

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I have gone ahead and bought two pairs of the Flow 808 interconnects and have been quite impressed to say the least! Using these between the dac and from the preamp on to the Symphonic Line monoblocks. They provide tremendous spatial cues and resolution within the recording, and have what is to me is the most important aspect of any piece of audio chain: correct tonality and texture. Also, quite even sounding, very musically wholesome and organic, without emphasizing any particular frequency region. Needed about 200-250 hours for proper burn in my system. At first, cables might sound a bit bright, but that brightness goes away with playing time. Not forward or aggressive sounding cables, but not laid back like some Cardas either. Hate to use term neutral as it means different things to different ears, but have to say, that each recording or a stream source sounds distinctly different with these cables, so they are just reflecting whats on the source, without much of editorializing. Various bass texture and pitch differences are laid bare with these cables. Airy, very refined treble to keep it short. Midrange is quite lovely, in my system slightly warmish, but not dark sounding. As I ve written above, cables will just reflect the sources.
I'm going to order two full pairs of their 808 speaker cables at some point next month for full bi-wiring of my system. Will update on that as well.

Thanks to the member Azjya for sharing his experience with these cables in his awesome sytem!
 
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