I have found out why new cables and tweaks actually work!



The issue is now solved via irrefutable scientific data and rigorous validation after unprecedented levels of physical effort. I now know why swapping cables works, and why a great deal of other tweaks work too.

I spent a great deal of time over the weekend cleaning my entertainment center. I used a Swiffer with the extending wand attachment. Immediately afterwards I went to watch a movie and the sound was clearer, cleaner than I’d ever heard it before. The video didn’t change, but the audio, it was so good I stopped playing the Fellowship of the Ring for the 10th time and went to listen to music.

Oh my goodness, what deep and extended soundstage! Not only could I hear deeper into all of my music but instruments had bodies and height! Diana Krall was so palpably present I wanted to buy her dinner. But what had changed?? Every single cable was left as it was, but I had cleaned!!

That’s when it hit me. All my tweaks and all my cable replacements did nothing. It was the cleaning I did every time I replaced a set of cables that actually caused the revolutionary transformations I was experiencing.  Same for every other audiophile!! You've ignored the cleaning and ascribed changes to gear.  We've been fooled!

On a completely unrelated note, I will soon be releasing my own line of advanced, jitter free, cleaning solutions, in peach, evergreen, unscented and Axe Body Spray fragrances.

erik_squires

@erik_squires    On cables I think I mainly agree with you.  I am not so pig headed as to think cables carrying signal cannot make a difference.  But a far smaller difference than changing an amp, or cartridge, digital player or speakers.  And even smaller when evaluated on a per dollar basis.

But passive stuff like power cables and fuses and raising your wires on little pyramids cannot make a difference, whatever some people convince themselves they are hearing.

@clearthinker  After decades of listening, and hearing how audiophiles and non-audiophiles perceive sound I have my own theory which I do not need others to ascribe to:

  • Amps and speakers are more sensitive to cable impedance than we normally think but not by a lot.

Yes.  They are sensitive to interconnect and speaker cable impedence, but not that of power cables.  Or indeed fuses.  So long as they can pass the necessary current.

But, on a higher philosophical plane, how sensitive do we normally think they are?

Yawn: we started with a Swiffer and end up in senseless discussion about fuses and powercables?
Peace on earth and Merry Christmas to all

@clearthinker  Not every cable I have has perfect insulation.  I am frugal, not because I do not believe in expensive cables.  Every time I clean the dust, immediately I hear the sound improvements just as claimed by the OP...  Ha!

Why nobody thinks I have been flippant?  Am I being too serious?