+1 ….. for quality build cables with proper shielding. Build quality matters …. Full stop.
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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Did you ground it? basicly you are making a shielded cable fromm your apparently unshielded cables. Shielding power cables prevents them from being a noise generator. Shielding the interconnects is often not recommended and I do not use shielded interconnects since it can limit dynamics because of inductive effects. that said, your shielding may be far enough from the conductors that inductive effects are minimized or even eliminated. Inductive coupling goes as 1/d. So most people buy shielded power cables for this but your solution seems to work. curious if you grounded it. Jerry |
@carlsbad2 no didn’t ground it, just wrapped it with self adhesive foil. Seems to work wonders. |
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