Aliexpress Cables

[darcman]

OK, so I got my Viborg 1707 cable today...What. The cable I got has Viborg 1707 printed on the outside, but it looks like the Yarbo SP-1100PW. The Yarbo SP-1100PW looks like a really really good power cable and I have wanted to try it, but I was expecting Viborg 1707. I fired off an email to the seller....does this mean they actually make Yarbo stuff???

 

[MattSPL]

OK, so I got my Viborg 1707 cable today...What. The cable I got has Viborg 1707 printed on the outside, but it looks like the Yarbo SP-1100PW. The Yarbo SP-1100PW looks like a really really good power cable and I have wanted to try it, but I was expecting Viborg 1707. I fired off an email to the seller....does this mean they actually make Yarbo stuff???

Looks exactly like the Yarbo, I only recently used some.

 

[darcman]

Ya its not the end of the world, it doesnt make any sense to send it back, I have always wanted to try it anyways. The Yarbo is actually more expensive the Viborg. Just a quick question about terminating the Yarbo. So ground the shield on the wall plug end. I noticed besides the ground, neutral, and hot there is 3 wires...do I just abandon those or should I hook those on to the ground on the wall plug end???

 

[MattSPL]

Ya its not the end of the world, it doesnt make any sense to send it back, I have always wanted to try it anyways. The Yarbo is actually more expensive the Viborg. Just a quick question about terminating the Yarbo. So ground the shield on the wall plug end. I noticed besides the ground, neutral, and hot there is 3 wires...do I just abandon those or should I hook those on to the ground on the wall plug end???

They are tied to the shield like a drain wire, so I connected at the wall plug end.

 

[BShaw]

OK, so I got my Viborg 1707 cable today...What. The cable I got has Viborg 1707 printed on the outside, but it looks like the Yarbo SP-1100PW. The Yarbo SP-1100PW looks like a really really good power cable and I have wanted to try it, but I was expecting Viborg 1707. I fired off an email to the seller....does this mean they actually make Yarbo stuff???

That’s definitely Yarbo, I really like that cable! Now I’m guessing Yarbo, Viborg, and maybe others like Preffair, Monosaudio (P902 is almost the same cable) are OEM’d by……? And if it wasn’t clear darcman, don’t bother with the shield, the drain wires are there to connect it to ground. I wish all PCs were made like this!

 

[darcman]

I put a pc together with the Yarbo. Ya the drain wire I connected to the ground on the wall plug. It is a bit for fiddling to terminate with the 7 teflon coated conducters in the main conductor, but wasnt bad. The Sonarquest plugs were ok, they look good....except the strain relief is a little to small for the Yarbo. I ened up filing out the one half of the strain relief and even then it was pretty tight.

The monosaudio is just about the same, except it uses a few more teflon conducters for the ground and it doesnt have copper shielding around the 7 teflon conductors. In the end I got a pretty darn good deal for the Yarbo. The Viborg and Yarbo must come out of the same factory. On AE the Viborg is for sale at the Audiocrast store, so they must all be made under the same manufacturing umbrella.

So I put the Yarbo on my amp and immediately noticed it is warmer than the AQ Dragon and the Grey Knight Energy MKII. I must say my first impression of the Yarbo is that I really like it. I think I like it more than the Dragon and the GK MKII.

I heard back from the seller and he said he was sorry. He just asked if I could use the Yarbo, which gladly I will. I was hoping he was going to say I will send you out a few meters of the Viborg. I really was looking forward to trying the flat copper Viborg, but I guess its not a big deal.

 

[AlexB73]

I put a pc together with the Yarbo. Ya the drain wire I connected to the ground on the wall plug. It is a bit for fiddling to terminate with the 7 teflon coated conducters in the main conductor, but wasnt bad. The Sonarquest plugs were ok, they look good....except the strain relief is a little to small for the Yarbo. I ened up filing out the one half of the strain relief and even then it was pretty tight.

The monosaudio is just about the same, except it uses a few more teflon conducters for the ground and it doesnt have copper shielding around the 7 teflon conductors. In the end I got a pretty darn good deal for the Yarbo. The Viborg and Yarbo must come out of the same factory. On AE the Viborg is for sale at the Audiocrast store, so they must all be made under the same manufacturing umbrella.

So I put the Yarbo on my amp and immediately noticed it is warmer than the AQ Dragon and the Grey Knight Energy MKII. I must say my first impression of the Yarbo is that I really like it. I think I like it more than the Dragon and the GK MKII.

I heard back from the seller and he said he was sorry. He just asked if I could use the Yarbo, which gladly I will. I was hoping he was going to say I will send you out a few meters of the Viborg. I really was looking forward to trying the flat copper Viborg, but I guess its not a big deal.

Hi @darcman ,
Is it Yarbo cable flexible enough?
Did you compared AQ Dragon and the Grey Knight Energy MKII? Can you describe the difference in their sound?

 

[darcman]

Hi @darcman ,
Is it Yarbo cable flexible enough?
Did you compared AQ Dragon and the Grey Knight Energy MKII? Can you describe the difference in their sound?

The Yarbo is surprisingly flexible. To me the Yabo seems slightly more flexible than the GK MKII even though it has far fewer conductors. The Yarbo has the fairly think outer jacket and outer foil as well as conductor foils whereas the GK MKII has the couple jackets, foil, and screen.

I would say the AQ Dragon is more revealing than the GK MKII. I wouldnt necessarily call the AQ Dragon bright, just its more lively than the GK MKII. The Yarbo is a warmer cable with it being all copper. So I guess the GK MKII would be somewhere in between the Dragon and the Yarbo. Its whatever would work for you in your system. If you want really flexible cables the WireWorld Silver Electra and Electra are that, as they are flat cables.