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Synergistic Research Tesla x4 speaker cable

Anyone have experience with these? I am auditioning them along with a few others right now and they sound so odd that I am concerned that the pair i was sent might be defective.
They sound like I have on headphones. no real central image. I am aware of sound from each side but no image in the middle.
thanks in advance for any insight!
jimmy3993

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guidocorona
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Jimmy, have you checked with SR about break in requirements? I would not be surprised if a few hundred hrs were in order. G.
guidocorona
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Jimmy, I believe that if the wires are out of phase, you just need to flip the positive and negative leads for one wire only at the speaker end. . . . if that is the problem you will hear a very sizeable improvement. . . if it isn't, they will sound very much worse than they do now. G.
guidocorona
4,298 posts
 
Jimmy, no damage possible. . . but you must change only on one wire, and only at speaker end. Phase switch on preamp or on source is an 'absolute' phase. . . it generally makes little or no difference. G.
guidocorona
4,298 posts
 
Keep us posted Jimmy. . . something tells me there may be a pair of SR speaker wires in my system's future as well. G
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