Christoph, we are having this conversation today because you have chosen to put down my product in order to promote your friend's brand.
You claim to be 'just a good customer’ however in my experience good customers do not possess multiple examples of usb cables which they are keen to run around demo’ing to other people. They may occasionally post an appreciative word online but seldom multiple posts on the same subject. Furthermore, they would not feel the need to link their posts to other threads, like you have done today, nor show such keenness to report comparisons against perceived competitors.
I do not believe that I know Audioquattr personally and couldn’t say exactly which model or generation of my cable he has, though like most things in life my designs are continually evolved without announcing to the marketplace.
We won't have a conversation because this is my last answer to you in this regard.
I have not put down your product. I said someone compared a product of yours he already owns and the Callisto and then bought the FTA cable. Nothing less and nothing more.
Doesn't the text fit into both threads? Don't you think?
I was just too lazy and time constrained to type it twice
If you look at my signature below and count the number of DACs, you might find a not really coincidential congruency between the amount of DACs I own and the amount of FTA Callisto cables I own.
I bought it three times because I want one in every digital system I have.
Yes, it is that good and that special
Maybe you should give it a listen yourself some time
I compared an awefull lot of USB cables before I was convinced. Your cable was not in the mix for obvious reasons I mentioned in my last posting.
I'm very curious about my Hobby and like to listen and compare a lot of gear and tubes and cables and stuff. That is part of the fun for me.
When audioquattr offered me to try some very exotic tubes I never heard, I gladly took him up on his very generous offer.
I wanted to enable him as well to satisfy his curiosiy and offered that we exchange tubes and the FTA cable when we meet in Munich.
When I asked AQ what USB cable he currently uses, I was very curious to know about his findings because I earlier already wanted to try your USB cable. It was a nice confirmation for me that AQ also liked the Callisto so much to immediately buy it.
PS: I also often recommended the KR 242 for my former Golden Gate DAC and now the KR PX25 for my current Pacific DAC and for both the KR RK 5u4g rectifier. Does that make me a KR Dealer as well?
PPS: In our last output pentodes compare for my new Golden Atlantic TRP, the winner was a cheap, easily available Genalex Gold Lion KT77 and not a tube from KR... Genalex Dealer now?
PPPS: Because I have NO Industry Affiliation, I can try and like anything I want to and then buy or don't buy accordingly