Posted on Monday, 2nd August 2010 by Auw Jimmy

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After completing the construction of my Duelund Interconnect 2.0 Rev2 here, I decided to do some short comparison. My friend has Duelund Interconnect 1.0 Rev1. I think this gonna be a nice comparison!

Direct to the stage, we have some equipment on hand, like floorstander 3-way speakers, CEC CD Player, Marantz CD4000 fully modified with tube output stage, Hybrid F4 power amplifier, Aikido 6N1P-6N6P powered with Duelund CAST Ag/RGN1054 Mesh Rectifier, and also #26 Pre-Amp powered with Jensen Paper Tube and AZ1 Mesh Rectifier.

Without any further ado, let’s go to review those cables.

Short explantion, Duelund has 3 lines up of cables: The 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0. The different between 1.0 and 2.0 itself is on the cable size. The 2.0 has bigger size (AWG) than 1.0. While the different between 0.5 and 1.0 is on the silk insulation itself. The 1.0 has thicker silk than 0.5, which results in better and more oil impregnated inside.

We used some track to compare the 1.0 Rev1 and 2.0 Rev2. According to Duelund, the 2.0 Rev2 has more silver and even better silk insulation, compared with 2.0 Rev1 (old model). While it’s not quite fair to compared the 1.0 Rev1 with 2.0 Rev2, but it’s interesting to see how the new Revision2 cable could improve.

Sadly, I don’t have the 2.0 Rev1 which should give more objective comparison between those two generation.

In a short time comparison, the 2.0 Rev2 has sweeter sound (in quite large margin, it could be too sweet from some people, I think), more musical (the sound stage and emotion are definitely better), also could swing the music better than the 1.0 Rev1. The micro details and resolution also one step ahead from 1.0 Rev1. For some people, perhaps 1.0 Rev1 already good enough, but the 2.0 Rev2 definitely present the music into a different level. Due to limited time, I didn’t try some LP as source.

I do really need to find serious contender for this 2.0 Rev2.

I’m thinking of AudioQuest Diamond owned by one of my good friend. Soon… we will see more serious comparison between those two. And perhaps some more contenders from Kubala-Sosna. Just wait…



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6 Responses to “Duelund Interconnect 2.0 Rev2 vs 1.0 Rev1”

  1. Bryant Says:
    August 3rd, 2010 at 12:22

    Hi Mr.Jimmy,
    Did you use only Duelund 2.0 for signal and no ground wire ?
    Best Regards,



  2. Jimmy Auw Says:
    August 4th, 2010 at 09:12

    Hi Bryant,
    For signal and ground off course.
    Thanks.



  3. N@Jeep Says:
    September 7th, 2010 at 13:17

    Hi Jimmy, was the test b/w source & preamp? Any different observation when test it b/w preamp & poweramp?

    Cheers



  4. Auw Jimmy Says:
    September 7th, 2010 at 16:58

    Hi,
    It was used between the preamp-to-amp.

    Thanks.



  5. NANANG Says:
    March 20th, 2012 at 17:43

    Hi Jimmy,
    Have you compared with other your best reference interconnect, what about the result.
    thank’s



  6. Auw Jimmy Says:
    March 22nd, 2012 at 22:26

    Hi Nanang,
    At >$1000 price range, I think we will talk about taste. Hardly to find serious stuff but sound bad at that price range.
    Thanks.



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