I was really ready to sell my HD800's until I got the WyWires Red cable. Now I'm enjoying these phones a lot even on my solid state amp!
This post just made my night!!!!
As we're going to write the whole origin story of the Wywires Red Cable soon - but basically - Alex and Nina of Wywires (great people, and friends of mine) approached me at last years California Audio Fest about building a high end headphone cable - and I was psyched! I LOVED Alex's cables - from his analog signal cables to his USB cable (which is still my #1 USB cable when I travel - the lowest noise-floor and most airy digital/USB lead I've heard (pictured below w/ HiFi-M8 & my Audeze LCD-2s w/ Fazor) - and I knew Alex could come up with something fast!
So, before Alex even had a pair of cans at the factory, he shipped me the first prototype for Audeze and Sennheiser HD800s - and I reported back to him, and then he had a second prototype...
Next thing you know - we're at his third prototype cable for both Audeze and Senn HD800s - and because I wanted more ears on this - I headed down to my friend Dan Meinwald's place (importer for E.A.R, Marten Audio, Townshend and more) and met
@warrenpchi there along with Kevin Venable (thought his handle was Moreseratonin - might be misspelling it) - both are my boys and fellow Audio360ers!
We put the third Wywires prototype through its paces with my MacBook Pro/Amarra as source,
and my CEntrance HiFi-M8 wired with Wywires LTD SPD USB cable (here's a pic from the listening session w/ third Wywires prototype cable for Audeze):
and we also threw it at the E.A.R HP4 (with an HRT microStreamer as the DAC ahead of it)
- and we used Audeze LCD-3s and Sennheiser HD800s...
We all agreed the third prototype was a killer cable! Even Dan (Meinwald) who "hates headphones" enjoyed the sound of the Wywires cable and Audeze LCD-3!
After reporting back to Alex - he made a slight adjustment in the capacitance of the cable (which I heard - and it was even better) and also made it more flexible.
I brought the Wywires prototype cable for Audeze and HD800s to CanJan last year, and that's how I experienced the Cavalli Audio Liquid Gold and Liquid Glass
for the first time (now I own a Liquid Gold) w/ my LCD-3s!!
We thought Alex and Nina had a WINNER - and he was aiming for 300 bucks, which makes sense for a $1,500 set of cans!!
So, seeing the Global response to the Wywires Red headphone cable warms my heart! Great people, and a community effort! Naturally Alex got a pair of Audeze
and HD800s and a headphone amp at his office/factory after we all agreed he had a magic headphone cable!!
Since then Alex and Nina have supported a bunch of Head-Fi events, and we couldn't be happier for them!!!!
AND: - My fondness for my HD800s grew rapidly with the Wywires Red cable too! I'm SO psyched to see great people like Alex and Nina, who also hail from the high end audio world (he still builds cables for that market as well of course) come into the personal audio community with open minds and open arms.
Right on!! I take my Wywires Red cable everywhere I go!
Been meaning to write this story - so figured here would be the best place to start!
Warren and I used the Red cables on our LCD-XCs when we locked ourselves in a hotel room for 3 days after the Newport show to compare ALL the Astell&Kern players for Head-Fi!!