The other thing that often happens when switching cables around is that cables that were, perhaps accidentally, in the right direction find themselves quite by accident in the wrong direction. What are the odds? Gotta be 50%. Or even just one cable of the pair.
Moving cables around killed dynamics for days anyone else experience this?
I've been experimenting with different cables between components. Nothing sounds right since trying to improve sound with new mix of cables. There is no bass and boring, highs are okay but life is gone from system. So I flipped everything back the way it was still sound horrible. Ran everything 24/7 for a couple days still no go. Let it run a couple more days dynamics are back and bass is full big and has tone again and enjoyable to listen to. Can someone tell me why this happens. I've also moved just speaker cables around without unhooking them and seen this happen, I don't get it.
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delkal76 posts01-05-2020 11:58am geoffkait- Another “audiophile oddity” is that unused cables in the listening room hurt the sound. Take them out of the room ASAP. Unused electronics in the room and musical instruments in the room also hurt the sound. No, I’m not hot doggin’ ya! I would say that if someone thought having an unplugged cable sitting on a table would change the sound of their system it would be more than "odd". Same with unplugged components as long as they are not stacked high. But there is some truth to this statement when it comes to unused speakers. The cones can start moving "sucking up" some of the sound. While I don’t think this matters if it is just a small speaker or two in the back of the room........But people that have a "wall of speakers" set up and only listen to one at a time might be compromising their system. >>>>>While those may be pretty thoughts they don’t happen to be true. Speakers are with certain rare exceptions too insensitive to respond to acoustic waves in the room. The reason having unused speakers in the room can be explained by the same theory why musical instruments or spare cables in the room degrade the sound. Yes, I know what you’re thinking, “Are you out of mind?” The same for having cellphones in the room. People proposed a long time ago that the tiny speaker in telephones was responsible for degrading the sound. But that can be easily disproven by removing the tiny speaker. You will find that the sound is still degraded by the speaker less phone. Cellphones degrade the sound too. Check it out. As for electronics sitting around unused, it’s easy enough to take them out of the room, no? |
taras22 Yup, humidity changes can produce 10 db swings in sound level. That being said the body does adjust somewhat so most of the time its not that obvious. >>>>>Yeah, right. Maybe if you live in the Okefenokee Swamp. 🐊 |
I'm glad to hear some people tend to experience this problem, I believe and respect others do not hear it. The issue is I know personally I experience total loss of bloom, bass, spl or energizing of the room or what ever you would like to call it. All cables are many years old and fully broken in, ranging from JPS, Acoustic Zen, XLO Sig. and Harmonic Technology, so solid core, silver and copper. One thing mentioned is cleaning connections is something I haven't done in a year or so. If some believe removing cables need time to recover sonicly how can you judge adding or subtracting cables to improve things when the benefits or down falls take a few days to hear. My main system I rarely change things. Maybe it's best to set things up best you can and leave it alone and listen to music, it sounds good now |
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