Moving cables around killed dynamics for days anyone else experience this?

With that being said, the first time this question was presented to me was at RMAF 7 (?) years ago when synergistic research was doing a demo on the sound quality of a particular set-up before and after the powercord for the amp was twisted and moved around.  It was very easy to tell a degradation in sound after the power cord was disconnected, twisted up and placed back in the system.

Perfect! Because it was moving a Synergistic Master Coupler that brought this to my attention back around 1994. I had two of them at the time and was curious to see if one sounded better than the other. So I swapped them. And sure enough the "new" one sounded worse. (It wasn't really new, had just been used somewhere else.) 

But then when the first one went back in it also sounded worse!

Then while I was sitting there listening and puzzling over what had happened a few minutes went by and I was quite sure it no longer sounded as bad. So swapped back. Same thing. 

This again was a long time ago. So much experience since then its now taken for granted any moving around at all will have an affect. The more violent the moving, the worse it is and the longer it takes getting back its equilibrium.

Big Amen and well said @rodman99999!

This definitely sheds some light on problems I've had with this new room. Once a few cables were moved and sound deteriorated I thought if I moved speakers and in turn moving speaker wire closer to front wall bass would come back but that wasnt the case. I would walk away and come back next day and system was still lacking. So I flipped around some power cords. I even went to the extent of pulling out some different tubes to fix things. Viscous cycle. So if moving cables does affect sound all I was doing was prolonging having the system leveling out and not improving things. What an eye opener.

All of this reminds me of a cartoon that The Audio Critic had where the audiophile was behind his stereo, holding some cables, and yelling at his family, "Who the hell cleaned back here?", or something like that.

It was meant to ridicule folk like us but it turns out that it was quite prescient, but not in the way it was intended.

All the best,
Nonoise

nonoise5,235 posts01-07-2020 8:35pmAll of this reminds me of a cartoon that The Audio Critic had where the audiophile was behind his stereo, holding some cables, and yelling at his family, "Who the hell cleaned back here?", or something like that.

Very funny! Sounds like me. Thanks