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Tuning Collars on speaker cables - concept and any good?

Hello all,
I was wondering if someone can tell me what the effect is in the "real world" of having tuning collar on speaker cables. Are such tuning collars any good (for example Stealth Audio offers them)? Is there any downside by having them?

It would be great to hear from other fellow goners who have first hand experience with them, if possible with Stealth Audio cables.
Cheers and thank you for sharing your information
Mike
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geoffkait
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Somebody has a bad attitude. I won’t mention any names. Have you ever heard of The Little Train that Could? I think I can, I think I can, I think I can... 🚂 Toot! Toot!
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millercarbon
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Pretty much anything you put around a cable will affect the sound Mike. For good or bad, you can only decide for yourself by listening. That's the way it works.
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twoleftears
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Back in the day, when Simon Rattle and I used to hang of an afternoon, we listened to his early recording and critiqued them on a Bose Wave that he loved.
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Gosh, you’d think he’d be deaf. You know, what with all the high decibels.
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Tuning infers a process that is somewhat predictable. Randomly mucking with the signal passing through a cable sounds like playtime for bored audiophiles.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Trying to distort your signal in a good way that is.  Fun! 😘 Fun! 😘Fun!  😘
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