Hello,
I am looking for a good cable for my Letshuoer S12 PRO - the Letshuoer Chimera cable
which came with the iem is not comfortable: it is heavy, not supple, and its ear guides
are on the one hand too stiff near the connector (and therefore try to pull out iems
from the ears), while on the other hand they are not contour well around the ears
so that I feel that the cable is going to come loose from its proper place.
I want a new cable of a good quality, not too pricey (my budget is up to 50$), and
to have the following features:
- modular connector (better an angled connector than a straight one)
- good and comfortable ear guides which don't pull out earphones and stay in place behind the ears
- supple and easily handled
- light in weight
- if relevant at all - produce a clear and neutral sound without elevating/reducing anything, with a good
sound stage and technical details (basically, I want the cable just to transfer the signal as is without losses,
and leave any "handling" to iem/EQ)
After looking around on aliexpress, I found two groups of candidates: one is
ivipQ-101 from ivipQ,
and another from some seemingly new company called ARTTI (according to posts I have seen
on the forum, it seems somehow related to Letshuoer).
Now, with ivipQ-101 things are a bit more clear: this cable is from a well known firm
who's cables seem to be very similar to XINHS cables, which I used and liked (even though
the cable I used was of a cheaper variety:
XINHS 8 Core). This ivipQ-101 cable is supposed to have:
Graphene(3 Groups * 15 Pieces * 0.06mm)+Copper Alloy(4 Groups * 15 Pieces * 0.05mm)
(whatever it means).
Now with ARTTI things are more complicated since I haven't been able to find any reviews
about its cables (though a few pages ago somebody posted a few pictures of one of their
cables), but moreover, there is a confusing variety of similarly priced and similarly looking
cables, and I cannot make sense of which is better suitable for me.
Basically, there are 3 models: ARTTI Clear, ARTTI Spark & ARTTI Wave, and each of the
models has 2 sub-models which seem to differ only by cable's color: either white or blue
(and in case of Wave: black & white/green).
According to descriptions, they are made of the following materials:
ARTTI Wave: 8 cores and 144 strands of silver-plated 7N OCC copper (here is
black one, and here is
white/green one)
ARTTI Spark: 2 cores and 244 strands of 7N OCC copper + Silver twisted wire (here is
blue one, and here is
white one)
ARTTI Clear: 2 cores and 756 strands of silver-plated 7N OCC copper (here is
blue one, and here is
white one)
I listen to classical music, usually 16bit/44.1khz via Qudelix (will also probably get something like DC04 Pro, Tanchjim Space
or Moondrop Dawn Pro). From a purely visual perspective Spark & Clear look better to me (since all their strands are
inside and therefore there are less things which can un-twist. Also, for the same reason they have a cleaner look), but
on the other hand maybe they can be more stiff because of that. And from a sonic perspective, I have no clue what may
be a difference (if there is any meaningfull difference at all).
I guess that I would eventually buy ivipQ-101 (which is in any case the cheapest of all the lot) & one of the ARTTI ones.
Can please somebody help me make sense between ARTTI ones?
P.S.: if I were to judge only by cost of materials mentioned in the description, I would say that the "best" one is Spark,
then Clear, and finally Wave. The small differences in cost between the models seem to reflect this as well (Spark
being the most expensice, Wave is the least). Don't know if it means anything beyond that.
