07-Apr-2015, 11:14
I recently swapped out a French brand of speaker cable and power cord (Viard Audio Design) for a full loom of ASI (Acoustic Systems International) LiveLine cables hand built by Franck Tchang, a Chinese gentleman living in Paris. Franck used to be a jeweler and he now employs a rather interesting technique in building his cables. You can read about it at http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/asi/liveline.html They are very revealing. If you ever want to hear a cymbal or a triangle properly played back, you have found your cable. That goes, too, for electric guitar, as Franck is also a guitarist and he wanted to hear what electric guitars REALLY sound like on playback. (When I visited Franck's studio in Paris he jammed for me!) But none of this is at the expense of mid-range or bass extension. I have found them a nice match for my Dev200. By the way, when 6 Moons did their review of the original Devialet D-Premier, Marja and Henk used ASI LiveLine cables (among others) in their testing.
Devialet Expert 220 Pro Kinki EX-M7 power amp tethered to a fiber-fed Lumin X1 streamer via Grimm XLRs, Vivid B1 Decade speakers in Rosso Barchetta red (only 200 produced in a limited edition), Roon Nucleus with a Samsung 860 EVO 2TB SSD, etherREGEN switch fed by a Sonore opticalModule (and Sonore-supplied transceivers and 1M optical cable) with a SOtM dCBL-Cat7 cable to my Nucleus and a DH Labs Reunion Cat8 to my Lumin T2 streamer, Keces P8 linear power supply feeding a (to come) NUC and EtherREGEN switch with an external AfterDark OCXO clock., and opticalModule (5V/1A), AudioQuest Niagara 1000 power conditioner, ASI LiveLine loom (purchased directly from Franck Tchang when I lived in France), Less Loss Firewall for Speakers and Roon lifetime license with Tidal streaming.