29. Xtreme Series ~ AES/EBU Digital Cable (Duelund Copper)

The AES/EBU Digital Cable, Xtreme Series have the same sound quality and characteristics as the Reference Series. The Xtreme Series is further fine-tuned, improved the design, added wires/shielding/damping and built with audiophile XLR plug. It is an ultimate Audiolund design designed for audiophiles who believe in quality of connectors that could bring out the full potential of the Duelund cables. We do not use a precision measurement equipment to measure, however, the Xtreme Series AES/EBU Digital Cable is tested and verified on a few different high-end systems (Transport/DAC), with no signal error, perform better and comparably with other famous branded AES/EBU 110 ohm cables and thus, it is confirmed meeting the 110 ohm specification.

My humble comments: Audiolund AES digital cable Xtreme series has a strong sound characteristic of Western Electric. The sound is natural, details and smooth with a quiet background, and most importantly very musical. Duelund cables sound musical, relaxed and natural, and if you prefer musicality, this should be your 1st choice. If you like to have full Duelund sounds, you could select this Xtreme Series AES digital cable for your system. Duelund cables have a strong sound characteristic of Western Electric. 

A simple term for the selection of top 5 series with different sound characteristics:

1. If you like vintage Duelund Western Electric sound, can select Xtreme series
2. If you like modern 5N pure silver sound, can select True Silver series
3. If you like Duelund Western Electric sound, but would like to add pure silver sound characteristic too, can select Xtreme Silver series
4. If you like 5N pure silver sound, but would like to add Duelund vintage WE sound characteristic too, can select Ultimate Silver series
5. If you like both the Duelund Western Electric sound and the modern pure silver sound equally, can select Flagship series

XLR Plugs Orientation

Audiolund cables are quite thick and stiff, although it could be bend easily, but could be hard to “twist” if the orientation of the plugs is not aligned properly. The standard orientation for XLR plug is as above, however, it also depends on how you place your equipment, Top to Down, Left to Right or Right to Left ?
Please provide a picture of your equipment, looking from the back, to show the XLR connectors.

Cable Run-In: Audiolund cables are mostly multi-core design with various combinations of wires. Thus, all Audiolund cables will require a long time to run in.  OCC Silver wires are thick solid core wires, will take even longer time to run in than Duelund tinned copper multi-strands of parallel thin core wires. The general guideline for run-in time, estimated 100 – 200 hours.