cheapest cable upgrade ever


I have recently been playing with a very cheap upgrade of signal carrying cables: Attach one or two 1.5V AAA batteries with the ‘-‘ pole in the direction of the signal’s source. Simple strapping on with electrical tape) suffices, no need to connect anything. The benefits are very audible. The weak electric field conditions the outer layer of the conductor to improve electron flow, resulting in a strong increase in transparency and dimensionality. This works particularly well on the digital cable going into the router and streamer as well as the speaker cables (on the latter ‘+’ alligns with plus and ‘-‘ with minus, i.e. two batteries per single post speaker.

At a minimum it is a low cost bit of fun

antigrunge2

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Definitely not on fibre. maybe on the router access? Or do you use fibre there too?

@gregm,

no Sir, no connecting.,Just tape the battery with orientation of signal direction. It creates a,weak electric field which is sufficient

@rumi 

An electric field inside the battery builds up, pointing from the + terminal to the − terminal. This field opposes the motion of H+ ions — they cannot cross to the + terminal, and the reaction stops. When the terminals are connected by a conductor, on the other hand, electrons freely flow to the + terminal.

 

Just try it, it won’t kill you nor your wallet

9v does have + and - next to each other, therefore allignment with the cable not possible. I use 2 Aaas per cable

The effect is strongest on larger diameter single core cables, significantly less on litz, where skin effect is less of an issue.

Best I know the Zobel is for impedance matching. I use a SteinMusic Speaker Match for the same purpose. The litz has a weaker effect because of lesser skin effect. If you feel pesky, try on the ethernet connection on the streamer. Max effect after ca 2 h

@ozzy 

may I suggest you try 2 AAA’s on the ethernet to the streamer and the USB to the Dac? In my case it really worked

Dear all, on RCA, digital and ethernet: batteries close to the signal target with battery ‘-‘ to the source. On speakers: close to the speaker withsignal side with ‘-‘ to the amp, return with ‘-‘ to the speaker

Finally got around trying this on my BNC clock cables as well: works! having done all signal and clock cables now I feel I get much better impulse and spatial rendition