[Rolu]

Any opinions on Cadmus 8w vs Eros S (priced the same) for the u12t?

 

[kadinh]

I love mine. Listening to them burn in now with my Indigo.

How is the Indigo with Eros S compared to the stock cable?

 

[Gnofnaik]

Got the Code 23 limited edition. When I thought the Elysian Gaea can't get any better, this cable just blew my mind. It gives more bass and tame down the tribble which gives the voice more warm. The staging and resolution is amazing.

I also match the $50 Tangzu Wan'er to this cable. crap! It sound like $500 iem!

 

[Deferenz]

I find myself reaching for this pairing more and more often. Code 23 with LX. At the moment it’s slightly edging out my Traillii and Phonix as my current preference to listen to.

 

[aaf evo]

If anyone is after a Chiron, I have decided to let mine go here , thanks

 

[Tristy]

The 4.4mm termination of my 4w Chiron is slightly damaged I think it’s due to the adapters I've been using but the gold plating looks to be overly worn and the end “nub” of the termination is quite rough. Does anyone know if effect audio do termination replacements and how much this would cost from the UK?

 

[NovaFlyer]

The 4.4mm termination of my 4w Chiron is slightly damaged I think it’s due to the adapters I've been using but the gold plating looks to be overly worn and the end “nub” of the termination is quite rough. Does anyone know if effect audio do termination replacements and how much this would cost from the UK?

I had some EA cables re-terminated earlier this year. It was about a $40 fee plus the replacement costs - I got ConX and TermX. I don't know about shipping as I dropped them off with EA at CanJam NYC. Overall, great service from @JordonEA and Haley

 

[JordonEA]

The 4.4mm termination of my 4w Chiron is slightly damaged I think it’s due to the adapters I've been using but the gold plating looks to be overly worn and the end “nub” of the termination is quite rough. Does anyone know if effect audio do termination replacements and how much this would cost from the UK?

Hello @Tristy Do send our service team an email to info@effectaudio.com. The team will be able to help you out on that!
Let me know if everything goes well

- Jordon

 

[skootb]

I don't know about shipping as I dropped them off with EA at CanJam NYC. Overall, great service from @JordonEA and Haley

I shipped my leonidas II off in January for a repair (from NYC) and USPS lost it. I wish they'd just tell me it's lost, but they keep saying they're "looking for it." awesome

 

[Double C]

 

[Tristy]

Hello @Tristy Do send our service team an email to info@effectaudio.com. The team will be able to help you out on that!
Let me know if everything goes well

- Jordon

Thanks Jordon! Reached out.

 

[DaveStarWalker]

I have had the pleasure to listen to the Ares S 8w this day.

What a TOTAL surprise. Good surprise

To be honest, I wasn't expecting anything from this. It happened by chance, a friend of mine suggested it.

Well, Impressive pairing with my beloved Aure Ringo's*

Maybe the best pairing I have experienced with ... Every prices (Code 51, 1960, Orpheus... to name a few "cost no object" cables I have tested with my Ringo's...).

It ticked all my boxes : very good tones and timbres, a lot of density, natural resolution, and definition at a very high level, very good dynamics, snappy transients, lots of air, refined but very energetic, very extended bandwidth...

Full strike, call me impressed. Even my Aaw Aoraki cable is in danger (best pairing so far before this Ares S 8w... Before)

I'm going to listen more carefully, and over time, then decide.




* Curiously, it wasn't very good with my AE Mentawai's : agressive, thin tonality... Very weird because it was so perfect with my Ringo's.... Full synergy Vs bad pairing. I'm used to cables erratic behaviour (sometimes), and I know the game of synergies perfectly, but witnessing these... phenomena is always very disturbing, especially when it's so obvious (and completely opposite here), all other things being equal.

 

[DaveStarWalker]

Ares S 8W looks incredible. Built quality and the hardware is top notch as always with EA. And the braiding is really amazing.
The cable is also light and comfortable because very flexible. SQ impressions after some burn in

Ah

It was THIS cable I have listened to, yesterday.

Andricop's own cable : the one in the pics above.

Thanks bro

 

[DaveStarWalker]

Ares S 8W In The House
This stunning cable arrived early this morning and I couldn't be happier. I run a daily live podcast and as luck would have it, this beauty showed up literally 5 minutes after I ended the meeting so I've had the pleasure of using it all day. Like many in this hobby I have been buying, selling and trading my way around chasing the elusive. This journey has had me through pretty every kind of tech, custom and universal until I landed on the UM MEST Indigo. For me, this IEM ticks every box - almost. I am a bass head, a treble head and a mid head. Maybe I'm just a head - I dont know. Anyway, to get to Indigo I traded out my MEXT which I adored for it's deep rich layers of bass and frankly what I believed to very good mids and even treble response, albeit a little rolled off. When I got my hands on the Indigo it was instant love, superior in every way to the MEXT and for a $1500 difference it better be but the trade off for me was the bass; MEXT had it in spades with no bloat or bleed. In months that have followed I've tried every cable in my arsenal to see if I could lift the bass a little and the only one that could do it was the CODE 23, it's just too much cable for these light little jewels.

Well, this morning the Ares S 8 arrived. MEXT meet Indigo! This EA offering elevates the lower end with a lift in the sub-bass without any bloat in fact I can only describe it like this: It increases the layering and definition and widens it - not quite the "wall of sound" I used to describe Code 23, but man, it's an instant and evident shift. The mids remain lush, just "lusher" and all the sparkle and detail remain up top. This cable on this IEM is absolutely stunning and although The Indigo comes with a premium PW cable, the Ares S 8 W takes it up several notches and I can say it's totally worth it's asking price IMHO. For those of you concerned about the girth, its 8 core but it is incredibly flexible and comfortable.

With the Ares S 8 paired to the Indigo I've got everything I wanted now. I did have a good long session with the Penon Impact as I was considering it as an option but I found the signatures to be quite similar to the Indie with the Impact's mids (vocals in particular) more forward. This cable doesn't bring the vocals more forward in the staging, it just somehow fattens them up without the fat! I'm really done looking for my perfect pairing now. Thank You EA!

Completely agreed with your description.

 

[Alan Billington]

I’m hearing such positivity with the Ares 8! I wonder if anyone (or Jordon if he’s lurking!) has compared the Ares 8 to the Cleo II 8 which I’ve recently purchased and am blown away by!! What’s the differences? Like Holsen and Ufanco I’m using my EA cable with Mest Indigo. It’s sounding just amazing … but I’m intrigued!