cheapest cable upgrade ever
I have recently been playing with a very cheap upgrade of signal carrying cables: Attach one or two 1.5V AAA batteries with the ‘-‘ pole in the direction of the signal’s source. Simple strapping on with electrical tape) suffices, no need to connect anything. The benefits are very audible. The weak electric field conditions the outer layer of the conductor to improve electron flow, resulting in a strong increase in transparency and dimensionality. This works particularly well on the digital cable going into the router and streamer as well as the speaker cables (on the latter ‘+’ alligns with plus and ‘-‘ with minus, i.e. two batteries per single post speaker.
At a minimum it is a low cost bit of fun
tksteingraber's post motivated me to try this. A single battery was placed on the ends of all cables, including the power cord of the network switch. First thing I noticed was a reduced noise floor. Secondly, the system gravitated towards how it sounds well after midnight. Yes, when your system can sound intoxicating. I was surprised by all of this, as I was expecting nothing.
So a big thank you to antigrunge2!!!! This is indeed the "cheapest cable upgrade ever". |
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