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? 

tubelvr1

@tubelvr1 

Just interested, did you wrap all of your cables at once, or was it done progressively?

It is not clear from your description whether your wrapping was floating, or was grounded at one or both ends of the cable?  You did not mention speaker cables?

I would expect the greatest difference to result from wrapping the phono cable, where the signals are miniscule compared with line-level interconnects.  I presume your phono cabling is RCA, not balanced? 

Surely wrapping the cable changes its capacitance, which may be good or bad considered from a system neutrality perspective.

Another cheap treatment for power cords is to snap on ferrite rings at a cost of a few bucks each.  These can really clean up digital noise coming from components, especially if they contain switch mode power supplies (computers, class D amplifiers, etc).

Snake oil. All of it. At best, nothing is happening. More probable is your adding interference. Walk away from this. 

Reading passages from the Bible, Torah, or Koran will have the same effect from my experience or simply burn incense which may have a pleasant psyco- acoustic effect as well.

Reading passages from the Bible, Torah, or Koran will have the same effect from my experience or simply burn incense which may have a pleasant psycho- acoustic effect as well.

Audiophiles use very good equipment and use at least good cables. It is strange that very expensive power cables aren't FCC tested and often not UL listed. RF in cables hasn't been a problem in many years. I think your equipment is properly designed to limit RF problems. 
I used RF microphones on the actors on the movie Titanic with 4 radio and TV stations only about ¼ a mile away 25 years ago so we had to be careful but the problem was fixable. RF is not a factor in SQ with at least decent equipment. Stop using expensive cables use good cables.