Yup, humidity changes can produce 10 db swings in sound level. That being said the body does adjust somewhat so most of the time its not that obvious.
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.
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The other thing that may be in play here may be related to the generally microphonic nature of cable assemblies. Changing the position of cables could involve changing the curves the cable take, and this changes the tension across the cable which then changes the microphonics response of the system which then changes the sound. |
>>>>>Yeah, right. Maybe if you live in the Okefenokee Swamp. 🐊 Gee, never realized that Toronto was in the Okefenonkee Swamp category of humidity swings ( Toronto being the location where we experienced this sort of phenomenon during a very script heavy shoot...the effect was not subtle and some scenes were re-shot as a result...). |
10db would be more a concert hall / outdoor venue figure, but completely possible. The venue was about 15 mil cu ft....a large warehouse space converted to studio use. It was right beside Lake Ontario (like about 40 ft away). We did the tech survey in February and shot in August. And we had recordings of the before and after, and tape don’t lie ( read ..tape provides a fairly objective view of the event unencumbered by the ear brain editing functions...). |
Indeed. Perhaps a petition to the post production sound industry from audiophiles, as to how the pros ought to dress their cables, is the fix! Recently ran into a rather interesting article....( which btw pivots on a notion put forth by Robert Ludwig way back at the dawn of The Great Digital Delightenment...) https://www.dagogo.com/records-sound-better/ Wherein I found the following....maybe not definitive proof of anything but interesting none-the-less ( and kinda pertinent..) ... Manufacturers in the Hi-Fi world were trying to figure out how to make those shiny discs sound good, or at least better. I credit all the developments in converter design in the Hi-Fi world for causing improvements to digital recording in the pro audio world. Read, so maybe it would be a good idea for lowly audiophiles to bring some small level of improvement to the exalted world of pro sound ...sorta like bringing a higher grade of acoustics to sound stages which are generally tuned by some variation of hanging blacks...and after-all the audiophile perspective did inform Ludwig's work which was definitely not a catalog of sausage factory product... |
Recently ran into a rather interesting article....( which btw pivots on a notion put forth by Robert Ludwig way back at the dawn of The Great Digital Delightenment...) And in a voila thingee moment that Ludwig article kinda magically reappeared.... http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/bas/0408/ |
Ludwig must be listening to something other than what is available to everyone else. What everyone else has does not sound like the original recording. Yeah that is how and why he could make the comments he did. Of course, he has a lot of money on the line to make such a pronouncement . He also has had his hand in a vast catalogue of great sounding records/CDs. |