WTS/Trade: Synergistic Research Tricon USB ( Demo )

by **lonesax** on Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:43 pm

Andrew +65 92737611

condition 9/10

Demo unit @600

Synergistic Research Tricon USB cable standard A to B 1m

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Full Review: http://www.soundstage.com/digitaldomain/200907.html

Any USB cable doesn’t only transmit data; it’s also a power cable, with two wires for the datastream, and two more for the 5V available from the computer to power a connected USB device. In a standard USB cable these four wires are housed in very close proximity to each other. But just by looking at the Tesla Tricon, you can see that it’s a different kind of USB cable. Two distinct cables are wound around each other and sheathed in a mesh jacket. Each individual cable houses a pair of conductors, as opposed to the normal USB format of a single cable containing four wires. Synergistic Research asserts that this separation of the power and datastreams precludes the possibility of the 5V power stream contaminating the data. There’s likely something to this; a computer’s USB power supply is notoriously full of electrical noise, and it stands to reason that keeping that noise away from the datastream is a good idea.

From the start of my time with the Tesla Tricon, it was as obvious as being hit on the head with a hammer that Synergistic’s USB cable was miles ahead of Kimber’s. True to what Howard Kneller had told me about other Tesla cables, with the Tricon USB I felt as if I were seeing into the music for the first time. Where the Kimber had considerably dropped the noise level, the Tesla Tricon USB seemed to be pulling my music straight from the silent vacuum of space. This allowed all manner of previously undiscovered spatial and musical cues to become as starkly obvious as the moon passing in front of the sun.