Magnets on cables?

You guys are all correct about God and Satan, but as for magnets, my understanding is they form a field around the wire sapping off RF and EMI.

Depending on how much problem was there to begin with, it's possible for the magnets to help, although my experiments way back in the 1980's with Audioquest clip on magnets, provided either no results or negative results in the way of "compression" of bandwidth.

I suspect there are so many factors at work here, one would have to do the experiment for themselves. Good news is the magnets are cheap and you can give them to your kids to play with if they don't help the music.

Oh yea, my thanks to Slappy as well for his clarification of the word "schlabang." Lets hope this becomes part of the audiophile dictionary of descriptive words. Perhaps it will show up in Absolute Sound, a few issues from now.

Its Possible that a magnetic field may be our highway to a higher power. Man that was deep. I better lay down.

Man, I don't know why I read any of this stuff. I hit that "highway to a higher power" and now I hafta go change my underwear...

I guess this is kinda similar to the Bill Engvall line about "did you hit a deer?", only I musta hit the whole shlabang.

Common sense would dictate that placing magnets next to ANY wiring would induce an EMF that would degrade the signal, not improve fidelity (i.e.: shielded front/center channel H.T. speakers).

Of course, if common sense prevailed, we all would find another hobby besides high-end audio :-)

Slappy,

I did not remove the magnets from their brackets. I find the brackets make them easier to use because it gives them a bit of space between each other.