Oct 4, 2020
A:B-Y-R, B: W-Y & R-G
The “intelligence” in this one is that both middle W and Y, those connected to the A end, at the B end extend via Red and Green respectively, back towards A. Thus, the latter are not connected to the B end. This virtually makes the W and Y shield twice as long.

The best so far. This is now not about “how to get the last anomaly out of the way” but merely “I am shocked that this could be achieved”.
I largely played mere commercial music and it is unbelievable what’s actually in there. Voices are crystal clear and yesterday I literally said “It has become impossible not to hear what’s being sung”.
Drums now have an impact which I deem the most realistic I ever heard, and which mostly is about the more “sloppy” the tension of the skins are is than music normally expresses (remember we have a fairly large drum kit over here).
Cymbals sound nicely long and with appropriate color (I can imagine that improvement on the color is possible but then I’d be unthankfully nit-picking).
What seems to be new is how (electric) basses come forward playing their lines. I could also attest that *everything* seems to come forward with this config. And that detail … amazing.
What seems to be the key character of the Lush^3 in any configuration is the lightfootedness. This is IMO also how the impact on drums seems to be more difficult to “arrange for”. But apart from this config doing very well on this aspect now, yesterday I paid attention to this phenomenon explicitly, and it is merely so that the drums are more in the background now (and let’s be honest, in real life they also are).
The latter brings me to the level of distortion. Uhm … none ? So this is exactly how a snare always was brought forward – distortion. And obviously … there’s a pile of sh*t brought to us from a snare, when the snare is “on”. So really, this is so different now. Must be the same as the so enormously crystal-clear voices.
On a last note, I think that by now it is fair to say that the Lush^3 in general allows for “infinite” more level of playback. I did not do it, but I am pretty sure it can be done. Anyway yesterday with this configuration I was tempted, knowing that the past days with the Lush^3 I already play 6dB louder than ever before. But it can be more. … Nobody complains, it is only that already now it has become quite hard to talk to each other.
If my impression is the same upcoming evening, I suppose this will be the configuration the next ^3’s will ship with.

Peter

Vincenzo, the demo quits all together after 6 minutes the soonest and 30 minutes the latest.

Reinstalling XXHighEnd 100% definitely brings it in demo mode again. You need a new Activation Code now. But no worries, ... see your email ...

Kind regards,
Peter

Hi Tore, ... sorry about not being more clear about this ...


At the end of the day, you press the E from Alt-E at the shortcut Menu. This Pauses Playback.
The next day, say 18 hours later, you press Alt-P - this continues playback.
... But in between playback was always going on ...

Best regards,
Peter

PS: I now see you have that 4GB ... (sorry to be slow ;-)

Vincenzo, in that case take care that the "SFS" Ramesh referred to, is sufficiently low, like say max 20. This depends on more settings (like the Contiguous Memory setting), but have it at 20 (the Max SFS also) is a good idea. This sits in the Memory section in Settings.

I recall that the required Memory is 4GB. Preferably more (it is convenient to have more - you will learn later why that is).

Peter

Hi Vincenzo, welcome here !

First question would be : what does it mean "crashing" ? I mean, usually nothing ends or quits without an error message of some sort. Once exception in this case : being in Demo mode. So are you sure the program is out of Demo Mode ?
Regarding that, please carefully read the instructions in the Activation Email you received - this is about the Red Bordered Coverart (or Yellow when still in Demo mode).
So can it be that ? (also see picture below for the Red border)

If not, any messages from the program to share ?
And just to be sure : I don't recognize any crashing at all. The program is really super stable regarding this.

Kind regards and thank you for the kind words,
Peter

PS: I see that by now someone else was faster than me. 

So I tried it on a 70cm ...
When the cable is straight, it is completely impossible to twist it. But notice that this in itself is nothing strange. E.g. a random power cord would also not bend, unless you imply a curl in it and the cable gets shorter because of that ... (a not desired situation).
Oddly enough (apart from that we never tried this at all), when the devices are on top of each other (your vertical alignment), you can 100% easily fold the cable in the other direction. The requirement : a bend of 180 degrees (which is what you would have).
It is hard to explain. But take the cable in your hands, fold it 180 degrees (with a nice harmless bend), and from there fold it backwards (move 360 degrees). Et volá.
Aha, but this is not exactly what you want because it again implies change of vertical position. Now take the connectors in your hands, your hands at 20cm distance. Now move the one hand over the other sideways. Now it works.
Small problem, in one of the two positions the cable now crosses itself. It thus requires more length now ... (undesired, unless you sufficiently know in advance what's ahead of you).

On a last note, for the Lush^2 this was way worse. And in the end nobody complains (but some times people ask(ed) how to accomplish it - and this is then only for the 40cm version, which obviously is more problematic to this regard).

Regards,
Peter

Because I have no other way of approaching this, I look at Lush^2 configs and what they brought. This is where the A:B-R, B: came from too. Btw, I don't recognize similarities in the sound so far, but the "technical approach" is at least something to hold on. Thus, that previously given config tells that we provide the same as a Lush^2 config, BUT that there is an imbalance between that one connected (R) shield now and one other shield to the outside of that (the G) and TWO shields underneath it (W and Y).
And so I had already lying around the next one to try :

29-09-2020
A:B-Y-R, B:
As promised, here the more balanced config. Now the two middle shields are connected at one side, but obviously surrounded by an other shield (W and G), both not connected. So do notice that with the Lush^3 there is no one middle shield any more and thus we need to work with two (Y and R).

Very first minute : Too quiet ? Not enough life ? … not sure yet …
Okay, if anything, this shows even more dynamic range than what already showed with the previous config(s). I suppose this is equivalent to “again more quiet”. I think that it could be so that because of this, the sound is even more natural than A:B-R, B: showed already.

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People should not try this right away - I'd have rather that they notice the same with the transition from the previous config to this one. I mean, it is very well possible that too much adrenaline creeped into my brain to begin with.

Peter

Haha. Ramesh, then prepare for upcoming Friday.
Meanwhile I'll try to be as confusing as possible. 

No no, it's big fun.
I envision 10 or so people tomorrow heavily breathing over their mailbox.

Hahaha. But Mani, this is your day One. With me it all started to happen on day Two.


We just shipped all out today (already per your posting about it) so we can't test it really. My own is 100cm and that for sure can have it.
As soon as we have a 70cm again (the more you post happy notes the sooner that will be :wistle:) I will test it gently and ley you know.


PS: Was I right about that "robustness" ?

Ha !

Mani, FYI : The relative position of the connectors is quite random. If you'd receive two, chances are fair they will be different, when compared to each other.

Keep us posted !
Regards,
Peter

So ... Yesterday, after preparing 5 or 6 configurations with some "electrical thinking over", assuming that a first certainly would not be enough ...
The first really worked out. And so the first few will leave this afternoon with the most simple

A:B-R, B:

My text coming along with it, as noted yesterday :

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27-09-2020
A:B-R, B:
Watch out : this one is derived from the Lush^2 of the form
A:B-Y, B:
But what I did was shifting the one but last shield in the Lush^2 (Y) to the one but last shield in the Lush^3 (R). I will immediately propose a seemingly more balanced config in the one below this one.
First impression : quiet.
Second : Spatial – ab-nor-mal !! Reality cymbals – wow.
Listened for hours to this, finding nothing wrong with it. The first Lush^3’s will ship with this !

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To those who will be the first : Have fun !!!
Peter

Practicing some text for explanations of the sound ...

(for a teaser, please look here)

The difference between the Lush and the Lush^2 are most certainly there, and the differences between the various configurations of the Lush^2 are even more certainly there (none sounds the same).
But now the Lush^3-e ...

We already knew from the Lush^2 that what actually happens is that frequency ranges get amplified or attenuated (this can be more than one range, depending on the configuration). It doesn't work like an equalizer because the effect is xxx times more strong and always remains a natural effect (that I personally could tell).

With the Lush^3, for what I have listened to so far (which is 3 configs only) the emphasis seems to have shifted downwards a lot. I mean, there is less emphasis on the highs (somehow now they can't disturb you either, as it seems) and there is a lot of energy now at the bottom. But also right above that (say low mid) and it makes the sound much more robust. Firm.
I say this, because I am tempted to because of a more lacking, dunno, mid range of some time. But this is hard to explain. I mean, voices are crazily emphasized (very good), there is an unprecedented speed which is mainly lower frequency impeded (on/off sounds like voices can have it, but synths too), bells are so so beautifully rendered now just because of spades more of resolution, but
But somehow, with those 3 configs I tried so far, the area of the snare drum is underwhelmed. Btw, it is also the only flaw I currently see (for 3 out of 1023 configs - ) but this could be already because I so explicitly "observe".
All, really all jumps out, but the snare stays behind.

If you'd observe this yourself, you
a. will not accept that a USB cable can imply these huge (I have no other word) changes;
b. you should know that internally there is still the original Lush^1.

On a side note I am not able to explain how this can be so DAC-Output(!!)-frequency-related. Thus what the heck actually happens in that USB stream.

Previously (Lush^2) this was just a "yeah, we can influence emphasis on frequencies", but this ?
This is just too much of it. It is the Lush^2 squared (haha).

People may know my type of music, but if we keep that simpler and in the form we may all know it, it is Yello.
Well, ALL I played so far of such a genre (but worse than Yello in general) I could not recognize at all. Thus so so much can things change, only because the emphasis to frequencies is different.
Or
Because the speed hence resolution seems to be 20 fold (higher speed does a lot more than you can imagine).
Transfer this to "airy" and you will be able to see how all changes of this in the base.

Is it still a Lush cable then ?
Well, I could not name it differently because it just is in the base. So does it still sound "lush" ?

Yesterday I was trying to see through that (the direct answer should be No), but there is so enormously much going on (without getting tired of it !) that there's no space to think this over. It is one big literal feast of music, and I honestly can't care about lush sound.
More making a detour, I guess it still is because of the way more warm sound (you will be shocked about that alone). This is to be combined with the lesser emphasized highs (this could be a good thing and it most certainly is not a stuffed ear thing), but before you are able to judge for real, along comes a zzzziiinggg bell you never heard before.
Or the vibrating 500Hz+ string which you never heard vibrating. Or that so clean beautiful voice. And the deep down earth umpf without being annoying because it always sounds the same (tuning for too high level lows and it will annoy).

I recall playing Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds yesterday. I play it once per 6 months or so. Un-re-cog-niz-able. Full with metal rattling sounds which *are* there when you watch the movie, and which you did not miss when you played it "yesterday". Huh ?
Yes. Huh.

Peter

Anthony, believe it or not, but only last Sunday I suddenly knew how to make a ^3 out of the Lush. And Monday I had my own playing ...
(by now we have so many braids and hoses and whatever stuff, that we apparently can make a new cable in one day without purchasing anything)

I am not sure whether it is known somewhere that we were asked to make a Lush^3 because we also provided an ET^3 and thus "^3" would be possible. This was maybe 10 months ago. But since the Lush(^2) has a different topology than the Ethernet cables (BTW, you have an ET^3 :-) a similar build-up as how the ET^3 is built up, leaks from shield to shield. Yea, you won't believe such a thing, but it just is so. Thus :

Envision that you have a certain length of material. It could be a paper. On both sides of that paper you have a metal plate. And now the plates are connected (I forgot the resistance, but say 100K Ohm).

This connection is sparkle like. Thus, the measured resistance is not even stable, BUT the USB protocol can't bear it. It is real electrical influence on or the data or the impedance (that now going off the USB2 standard too much).

When we made a second Lush^2 completely new, while the first was formed around an existing Lush^2 (like Lush^2 comprises of the physical Lush^1) and both did not work, I had the magnificent idea to measure the resistance between two shields those NOT being connected. Et voilá.

You really won't believe this stuff, unless you experienced it with your own hands and eyes.
Cables already were a mystery, but it is far worse than we could imagine.

In the end this is to our benefit, because we must be able to utilize it now we know it.

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Mani and Anthony, for fun, take your Blaxius^2 (Anthony may have it still in the box), disconnect all the (B, W, Y, R) wires at both ends and measure IIRC between Y and R. You will see resistance ... (and not an infinite one :-).
If you don't see anything I forgot at which cable this emerges without us knowing at first. So, assumed it is indeed the Blaxius^2 ...

I use the Blaxius^2 myself since the day it exists. When we later found out about this (which is not a shortcut to the signal of any kind), I thought "oh well, if it gets its good sound from that phenomenon, we're good". Haha.
So with that analogue cable, the shields even actively interact. Of course, when you'd connect those two shields per the provided connector, the interactivity vanishes (resistance of ~0 Ohms).
So now you know. Leaving out the connection between Y and R will imply a specialty.
... I just looked at my own, and I have not connected the Y. So we must be subject to special voodoo indeed.

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If you now can imagine that a USB cable *will* produce only errors (like 20K errors per second) when the topology regarding this nuisance is off, you may start to be able to see what this "shielding" phenomenon may do all more.
Apparently the lot can behave like a capacitor or something like that, and transfer current by "such" means.
Oh ?
Well, then maybe it is time to investigate similar between signal and ground wires in one cable. I mean, I should (now) be able to create such leakage between signal and ground.
Eh ...

I suppose that when we measure capacitance of a cable, we already measure similar. But this is capacitance. In this case the "wires" (shields) are connected. But are they really ? can the multi meter possibly be fooled ?
(I recall we tried two meters, because at first I could not believe it)
Anyway thinking further, it could be so that the capacitance of the cable changes severely and that therefore that Lush^3 trial did not work.

To be sure you got the right idea of this :
What happened was that a perfectly working Lush^2 was wrapped with another shield and extra outer sleeve, and that did not work at all.
Build up one from the ground with basically the same materials but with different isolation than the "yellow" outer sleeve as we know it - same problem.
Because this isolation material was so different, there is IMO no way that "sparkles" come through (and that even without electricity). But some severe (magnetic ?) field is formed by that topology.
(btw I could have measured such field, but at the time I did not think of that)

Anything else ?

Peter