Moving cables around killed dynamics for days anyone else experience this?
Ack-chew-ally, the quote oft attributed to PT Barnum was not said by him at all but most likely by some dour pseudo skeptic cluck. What PT Barnum in his infinite wisdom did say though is that, generally speaking, people would be much better off if they believed in too much rather than too little. Knowledge is what’s left after you forgot all that rubbish you learned in school. |
To answer your question about my actual point Prof, I will say simply, that I cannot dismiss a priori any experience by some, because I lived one myself about cables touching one another ( mouse cable and dac cable in my case) and obstructing the clarity of the sound... I had no other opinion, only curiosity for these facts, and some explanations; being a non subjectivist, non objectivist kind of audiophile, I will call myself a music lover sensible to sound and prone to working simple experiments to improve it... Experiments that drives me to some simple discoveries, and low cost homemade solutions, that spare me a big amount of money in unnecessary upgrading urge and gives me something that some called "illusion" of pure musicality, placebo or not....:) My best to you... |
I sent this thread to a Fellow Guru of High Audionic Praise... and the following reply (of great clarity) was returned: It’s the disturbance of the aether that takes awhile to settle back. Many people also don’t realize the gravimetric affects of slinging their cables about willy nilly. With regard to graviton displacement and the attendant (who shall remain nameless) subatomic particle spin state changes which can easily be measured with a bowl of dried cereal and two sparrow feathers placed at right angular momentum assuming (and this is key) a 10 dB drop across all barometric frequencies, one can simply subtract the total amount of capacitive reactance of all unconnected cables laying around within 1 meter per watt times pi minus the degrees, minutes and seconds in latitude below the 33rd parallel. Then place a hygrometer no further than 20 cm from the dried cereal, carefully multiplying the percentage in hygrometric changes converted to picofarads per graviton/hour. This will yield a result in the number of hours required for the aether to return to the previous undisturbed state - Those is in the southern hemisphere need only invert the equation where applicable. This has been tested and verified 29 times. So far. |
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... |
As Bob Dylan said when a disgruntled fan pointed out how crappy some of his more recent albums sounded, especially with respect to dynamic range but also generally speaking, “It sounded good when we recorded it.” Therein lies the rub, you can’t get there from here. It’s the playback system, stupid! Hint - it ain’t the converters. |
