Wrapping power cords and interconnects with copper foil.


Ok..not sure other people have done what I tried recently but I’ve found a night and day difference in sound quality after I wrapped my tube power amp power cord (rogue Zeus) and my cheap audio quest interconnect cables with copper foil. I even wrapped by phono cable coming out of my turntable to phono pre-amp. The detail retrieval and pin drop silence after doing this has made by jaw drop. Cost was $40 worth of foil wrap. What do you audiophiles think? Have I changed the sound signature in a negative way somehow? 

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I can't speak for cables or interconnects but I had a noise issue with a tube preamp that regular Tin foil cured. 

I had hooked up an older tube preamp in my living room about a year ago. Right next to the TV..a couple feet away from a modem & router as well. The pre was putting a lot of noise in the chain. I switched out the tubes thinking they might have gone extremely microphonic sitting in the garage unused for over a year. 

New tubes made no difference. As I was jiggling & checking the rca inputs/outputs I noticed a change in the noise. Went into the kitchen and ripped off a square of Reynolds Wrap tin foil. Laid it over the back of the preamp & all the noise went away. Like wow. Obviously it looked pretty silly so I moved the preamp into the spare bedroom system which has no digital or wifi products. No issues in that room with that preamp & noise. In the living room  that little piece of thick aluminum foil was definitely blocking some intrusive noise wavelengths.