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Speaker cabels for dark sounding speakers?

Hej

My speakers are considered to be dark sounding and it has been OK with me until I replaced my easy chair with a small couch. Now the sound has turned a little too dark/muffled/dead. So I'm thinking maybe if I replaced my speaker cables with some other. Yes, I know it's a long shot, especially when my current cables are Kimber 8TC. But what do you say? Smaller carpet? Just don't say bring back the easy chair or buy new speakers :)
simna

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simna OP
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OK. I'll see if I can get some cables with silver and do some listening tests.
But I changed back to the sofa to really understand what is different. The reverberation has clearly changed. So I think I'll try to move the carpet a little so the parquet floor will be a little more exposed. Just to see how it affects the sound.

Thanks for the tip!
simna OP
165 posts
 
Problem solved.

Moving the carpet a little gave me a little more parquet floor and I got more reverberation. It actually feels even better now than before I replaced the armchair with the sofa. The bass has been improved and sounds cleaner and it is easier to follow the tones in the bass area. The sofa works a bit like a base trap.

But I will still give silver cables a try when I get a chance.

Thanks for shareing your thoughts. Take care.
simna OP
165 posts
 
@tvad
Actually the sofa is the "big brother" to the easy chair. Just an extra seat to my right, so to speak.
Interesting?
simna OP
165 posts
 
The speakers are Tannoy Eaton and they are dark sounding or you might called them a little rolled off.
From my experience all speaker cables "destroys" the sound. More or less. For example, some makes the sound less bright than it should be. Those are not the ones I'm looking for.
Hope you understand my bad English enough to see what I'm trying to say.

simna OP
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@tvad 
No matter what you think or how your furniture are made, these are exactly the same except for that one has one seat and the other has two. I thought it was common knowledge that if you put more furniture or bigger furniture in a room it will affect the sound in the room.
I can add that when I switched from Supra Ply cables to Kimber 8TC, the sound actually became more open and brighter.
Thank you for wishing me good luck in my "cable quest".
simna OP
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Please don't start a war over my question.

Yes,I've tried the treble energy settings and yes it made the sound a little bit brighter.

The system: Audiolab 6000CDT transport > Audioquest Carbon Coax Digital Cable > LAB12 DAC1 SE > Kimber KS1016 > Audion Audio Sterling Plus power amp > Kimber 8TC > Tannoy Eaton speakers. I did’t bother with the turntable stuff.

But I'm not clever enough to see what that has to do with the changed sound after changing a easy chair with a sofa.

Anyway; as I wrote before, I'll move the carpet so the parquet floor will be be more exposed and see how that affects the sound. Maybe it's the shorter reverberation that's bothering me. Probably is it so.
And if I get the chance, I'll test silver cables to see what I think about that. Anyway.

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