can speaker cables help?

My brief experience in this hobby agrees with George's statements. I have and haven't noticed changes both good and bad to my system's sound by altering components, cables/cords, isolation tweaks, power conditioning and positioning.

But that being said, I apologize Claude for possibly adding confusion to your question. Cables whether they be interconnects, speaker cables or power cords can have an effect on soundstaging. It would help if you could list your components, then maybe some recommendations would follow.

I completely agree with the two previous posts, speaker placement is SO very important. My listening chair has castors so I can roll around and change my listening distance. The change in soundstaging and location of musical elements is very noticeable. Positioning of speakers and their toe-in is also critical to the size and focus of the aural illusion.

Consttraveler, just like you I lose a lot of my objectivity if I listen too long. It may have to do with our attention spans or maybe it's just that we adjust to what we're hearing and the difference we noted earlier recedes into haze.