Vertical placement of instruments....crazy

Thank you Al. Very interesting reading. I learned alot.

Samhar, my speakers are on the Sonus Faber stands. I think they look great! As for SC/UCLA, I continue to re-live that magic victory in 2006...man has it been that long????

Tough question. It will be difficult, everyone is spoiled from the Carol years, 9-3 is now bad!!!! I would like to see the program off sanctions before I judge his performance! His neck is definitely in the yoke !!!!!
I'm glad a quality coach is in Westwood now, I enjoy a good rivalry win or, shudder, lose !!!!!!!
BTW what are your speakers resting on?

Rrog is correct that image dispersion along the vertical axis is sensitive to high frequency information. In fact see my posts dated 5-3-13 in this thread.

However, based on the photos in your system description it appears that you are probably referring to a short length of XLR interconnect used between the DAC and the integrated amplifier. If so, I find it hard to believe that it would have such profound effects on vertical image dispersion. Therefore I suspect that Mofi's theory is correct.

Perhaps one of the two XLR cables has pin 2 at one end connected to pin 3 at the other end, and vice versa, which would put the two channels out of phase with each other, instead of having pin 2 connected to pin 2, and pin 3 connected to pin 3. You can check that with a multimeter.

Regards,
-- Al

06-20-13: Samhar
Is it only when you have your Bruin slippers on !!!!!!! V fight on !!!!! Couldn't resist !
Samhar (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

Well played my friend! You think Kiffin will survive past this year???

Is it only when you have your Bruin slippers on !!!!!!! V fight on !!!!! Couldn't resist !

06-20-13: Rrog
The new interconnects are passing more high frequency information. Don't like it? Go back to the old interconnects if you prefer a smaller sound.
Rrog (Answers | This Thread)

Thats what I needed to know. Just wanted an explanation of why this was happening.

The new interconnects are passing more high frequency information. Don't like it? Go back to the old interconnects if you prefer a smaller sound.

06-20-13: Marakanetz
are you trippin?

Believe me I wish I was! This issue was totally blowing my mind. I tested this with several different cds and songs. The results were the same, crazy vertical placement of instruments.

are you trippin?

That almost sounds like they are out of phase. Maybe check to be sure the interconnects are wired correctly. They might have been reversed internally when they were put together.