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

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?

Wow some are wound a bit tight on this thread. It was poking fun at the fanatics and the deniers of cables and their mystical audio abilities. 

Yawn: we started with a Swiffer and end up in senseless discussion about fuses and powercables?

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