Yep, have a Xinhs 4-core graphene that should land with me this week. Looking forward to getting both, just hope the 3DT fits me ok 
Yea the size and the cable are 2 big catches with the 3DT. Hope it fits and you enjoy it.
It’s been awfully quiet.
Sorry, the “fun” has left the building.
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It makes the Timeless sound less abrasive and more silky to me and it gains more body and bass. Transparency is higher too. Mids become more vibrant and vivid.
No apparent changes to stage or imaging however.
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I find it doesn’t have the same effect. Digital EQ messes with the fundamental signal. It’s a digital alteration while cables provide analog EQ while preserving the integrity of the signal.
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Would you care to explain this a bit? Don’t really know what to imagine about being abrasive tbh. Or you mean it smoothens the sound?
Hm…I wouldn’t agree on that. If cable would impact the sound, I would call it defective since it’s main purpose is to carry the signal unchanged
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So dunu blanche (silver cable I think) would make the timeless harsher? Is that the idea?
Yes it thickens the treble region a bit. It has an especially nice smoothing/polishing effect on the presence region 4-7kHz.
That is where I feel the Timeless can sound a smidge raw in stock form.
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It’s not entirely down to the metal being used but generally In my testing, silver tends to emphasize higher frequencies somehow. The topology, shielding, gauge, and plating etc all have an effect.
This is an extremely common finding among cable afficionados.
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In that case, it’s possible to label anything that can carry an electric signal a cable. It would technically be doing its job as long as the signal is transmitted.
That does not tell you anything about how it sounds however. Only that it sounds.
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By thicken you mean tame it a bit? 4-7k is pretty broad frequency range to be influenced by the cable.
Certainly I wouldn’t like that cable makes such drastic changes
Obviously graphs cannot tell the whole story 
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Do you want beautiful sound that won’t tire you or do you want true sound reproduction?
There are very few people in the high end speaker world that prefer horn speakers due to how revealingly raw and dynamically truthful they are. It’s not fun listening to trumpets actually sounding like real trumpets for very long, it’s extremely tiresome.
No, people prefer refined, polished audio reproduction for medium to long enjoyment.
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Well, yes. Cable should do only that, carry the signal. It’s then up to the transcuder to “color” the original signal. Everything else in the chain shouldn’t affect the signal.
At least that’s my view on it lol
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But if music is itended that way, you should buy different speakers, not cables imo
Every component in an audio chain provide different levels of tonal compromise. It’s always tilting one way or another.
Nothing is 100% uncolored and its not necessarily the case that you would want that anyway.
You could pair a neutral IEM with a neutral source and a neutral cable. I’m not convinced the final result would be more enjoyable or more dynamic than pairing a warm set of IEMs with a colder source and the same neutral cable to achieve a similar tonal balance.
Hope that makes sense.
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