@erik_squires Nice one for Christmas! But does you joshing like this mean you might be realising the shortcomings of the dark side and be coming over to the light side and leaving the golden-eared fools to their own devices (sic).
I have found out why new cables and tweaks actually work!
The issue is now solved via irrefutable scientific data and rigorous validation after unprecedented levels of physical effort. I now know why swapping cables works, and why a great deal of other tweaks work too.
I spent a great deal of time over the weekend cleaning my entertainment center. I used a Swiffer with the extending wand attachment. Immediately afterwards I went to watch a movie and the sound was clearer, cleaner than I’d ever heard it before. The video didn’t change, but the audio, it was so good I stopped playing the Fellowship of the Ring for the 10th time and went to listen to music.
Oh my goodness, what deep and extended soundstage! Not only could I hear deeper into all of my music but instruments had bodies and height! Diana Krall was so palpably present I wanted to buy her dinner. But what had changed?? Every single cable was left as it was, but I had cleaned!!
That’s when it hit me. All my tweaks and all my cable replacements did nothing. It was the cleaning I did every time I replaced a set of cables that actually caused the revolutionary transformations I was experiencing. Same for every other audiophile!! You've ignored the cleaning and ascribed changes to gear. We've been fooled!
On a completely unrelated note, I will soon be releasing my own line of advanced, jitter free, cleaning solutions, in peach, evergreen, unscented and Axe Body Spray fragrances.
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@erik_squires On cables I think I mainly agree with you. I am not so pig headed as to think cables carrying signal cannot make a difference. But a far smaller difference than changing an amp, or cartridge, digital player or speakers. And even smaller when evaluated on a per dollar basis. But passive stuff like power cables and fuses and raising your wires on little pyramids cannot make a difference, whatever some people convince themselves they are hearing. |
@lanx003 Afraid you're wayyyy too far gone for me. But I think you mean 'conductive'. Now, you say 'the dust layer on the cables becomes conductive" But the cables are heavily insulated. So the thin film cannot transmit any signal into the dielectrics. Dust can land on the terminations, so true believers might clean them often. It occurs to me that taping the terminations with insulating tape or some other benign tape will prevent dust from landng on them and save you having to clean all the terminations before sitting down to listen. If you have amplifiers with ventilation holes on the top surface, have you ever looked to see the amount of dust accumulated on the circuit boards and components inside. Crikey, it's thick and sitting on the actual boards that carry....oh no!!...signal. Your music. Anyhow don't worry! It's really hot in there, so any humidity that might tend to make the dust conductive soon evaporates. Phew! A narrow escape. Still it doesn't do any harm to go in there from time to time and vacuum out the dust...very carefully. The fastidious will want to polish the surface of the circuits on the board. |
@lanx0003 'Perfect' insulation may be putting it too high. On any cable if you put a few kV to the outside insulation, some of it may get through to the core. But you must be buying too cheap. I could put extremely effective insulation on every cable for a few $. Which are the brands of your cables that do not have perfect insulation? I shall be sure to give them a miss. @jerryg123 On here, fun is a serious business. |
@lanx0003 Sorry if you were really joshing. Trouble is some on here really believe in stuff way more crazy than your dust. Welcome back to the world of reason. |