Moving cables around killed dynamics for days anyone else experience this?


I've been experimenting with different cables between components. Nothing sounds right since trying to improve sound with new mix of cables. There is no bass and boring, highs are okay but life is gone from system. So I flipped everything back the way it was still sound horrible. Ran everything 24/7 for a couple days still no go. Let it run a couple more days dynamics are back and bass is full big and has tone again and enjoyable to listen to. Can someone tell me why this happens. I've also moved just speaker cables around without unhooking them and seen this happen, I don't get it.
paulcreed

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I'm glad to hear some people tend to experience this problem, I  believe and respect others do not hear it. The issue is I know personally I experience total loss of bloom, bass, spl or energizing of the room or what ever you would like to call it.  All cables are many years old and fully broken in, ranging from JPS, Acoustic Zen, XLO Sig. and Harmonic Technology, so solid core, silver and copper. One thing mentioned is cleaning connections is something I haven't done in a year or so. If some believe removing cables need time to recover sonicly how can you judge adding or subtracting cables to improve things when the benefits or down falls take a few days to hear. My main system I rarely change things. Maybe it's best to set things up best you can and leave it alone and listen to music, it sounds good now
I just moved this system in a new room couple months ago and have also been moving speakers around a lot over this 2 month period. I could not figure out why things would not sound right. I know the speaker cables are moving because crossover is external and I have to pull it around in conjunction with speaker cabinet. This is now making sense why every time I try to change things up to improve sound I get discouraged and can't enjoy listening to this system. I told my son yesterday I'm thinking of selling off this system or throughing it in closet that I just can get it to work right and don't even want to look at it anymore. I get mad at it and leave it alone ( I still leave it on 24/7) for 4 or 5 days come back and it sounds great. Then I screw with it again. I'm just going to leave it alone and if I change anything expect problems and knowingly allow a few days before I can expect to listen to it.

Audiozen I just moved to a new house main system went in a big room and set up was easy and have been very pleased. This system has gone in 12x12x9 room, I've never had a room this small so it has been a challenge. I did add GIK panels.

Audiozen with the problems setting up this system and adding panels was tricky I did finally correct the sound. Bass was full and highs detailed and airy. I decided to add silver interconnect between tube pre and amp, change to copper between phono pre and Preamp and leave digital as is. I never moved the speakers. After moving interconnects around that's when bass and air was lost. So only conclusion I can come to is moving wire around did affect the sonics of this system.
Audiozen with all respect you can't be more wrong. System sounded great for 3 weeks without tampering with it. Within the 2 minutes it took to flip cables around dynamics were reduced highs were still there but refined sparkle was gone. Preamp is filled with Jupiter copper foil and I know there sonic signature very well and all there attributes were gone within that 2 minutes period. This is not a Illusion I experienced it is fact. Im sorry but if you had a 1000 years experience I would still have to tell you wrong on this subject. 

This definitely sheds some light on problems I've had with this new room. Once a few cables were moved and sound deteriorated I thought if I moved speakers and in turn moving speaker wire closer to front wall bass would come back but that wasnt the case. I would walk away and come back next day and system was still lacking. So I flipped around some power cords. I even went to the extent of pulling out some different tubes to fix things. Viscous cycle. So if moving cables does affect sound all I was doing was prolonging having the system leveling out and not improving things. What an eye opener.