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.
So all this time you were happily listening with one or more cables having a connection problem? Hmmmmmm…..
Don’t laugh. I have been to a guy’s home showcasing his amp he had put up for sale. The entire left channel was off, and he seemed to have no clue. 🤦♂️.
I have also experienced several times people having stuff connected out of phase, with no knowledge something was terribly wrong. Go figure |
I believe there was actually a “myth busters” type test done by a few different sites. Both used coat hangers vs. “audiophile” speaker cables. They used both testing equipment and human subjects for the testing. Although the testing equipment picked up a slightly better (though unintelligible to human ear) response curve with the audiophile cables, when it came to the human subjects 50% said the couldn’t tell a difference, 25% said they liked the coat hangers better and the other 25% liked the speaker cables better. One of the commenters claimed they actually challenged Kimber to switch speaker placement in a listening room where he had just a/b’d his speaker cable with cheap speaker wire. When the speaker placement was flip flopped the cheaper speaker wire then sounded better. Food for thought. |
@galvarado69 : source of this controlled test? |
Hey galvarado, I actually did my own single-blind test with music lovers who were audiophiles. One pair of speaker cable was Mogami soundrunner, and the other I believe was one of the Wireworld Eclipse models. The interesting thing was. without prompting, we heard the same changes, but the prefernce was markedly different. Wireworld was darker and had better imaging. Since I paid the most money for it I preferred it! :) My neighbors prefered the brighter, faster sound of the Mogamis. Tonally we all heard exactly the same thing. My neighbors did not hear the changes in imaging until I asked them to listen for it. They agreed with which imaged better, but really wouldn't give up on the better mid-treble output. Maybe because of that all my speaker cables now are made from Mogami. :D |
