@fsonicsmith - Excellent observations, ALL.
Can interconnect cables improve sound stage height, width, and depth?
Will good interconnect cables give a bigger, wider, taller, and deeper sound stage? Has anybody seen/heard an improvement in the sound stage dimensions going with high quality interconnects? What interconnects have given you an improvement in sound stage size?
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Some years back, I had decided to replace my Silver Audio Hyacinths, and gotten a pair of Wireworld’s Platinum Eclipse interconnects. With the Hyacinths, I was enjoying a wall to wall sound stage(with attendant, accurate, imaging) and excellent/realistic height and depth(with recordings made in open venues, that contained the ambient info). Installing the Eclipses, while realizing more air, greater inner detail and tone quality, the sound stage was reduced to between the outer edges of my Magnepans. I then auditioned a pair of Synergistic’s Tesla Apex, which yielded EXACTLY the same benefits/audible improvements, as the Eclipses, but- restored my sound stage width. They’re still in my system. Besides using my own recordings for sound stage verification, I like the tests(especially the LEDR) on the Chesky CD: http://mazsola.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/~drdani/cdlist/chesky.test1.html and https://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_ledr.php Prior to that experience, I had replaced a pair of Audioquest Emeralds with the Hyacinths, which was tantamount to removing a blanket from over the speakers. YEAH- interconnects make a difference! https://www.stereophile.com/features/772/index.html |