@rixthetrick Very good ideas! I tried this tonight. I love that right now my living room floor is covered in wires and loose CDs, just like the old days, all in search of Truth! (If only there were full ashtrays, empty wine bottles, and some young woman's unmentionables scattered in there, too. Everything that made me love 2 channel!)
So I got an old dusty Playstation One out of the basement (Stereophile Magazine's #1 all time CD player) and plugged the right and left channels directly into my Parasound Amp. So now we have bypassed the DAC and the Denon completely. After adjusting the levels on the back of the Parasound, I played multiple Stereophile test disks phase check tracks (both Fender bass guitar and even dogs!), and they all sounded better and proper with the "out of phase" wiring instead of "in phase." At this point, you are all rolling your eyes and saying one of his wires is crossed, but I have checked that many times. I also played other CDs, including Rebecca Pidgeon, that normally produce great imaging, and they are all better after I rewired that one speaker. It's interesting that the Denon, when included in the stream, still believes I have that one speaker out of phase, which I do if you just look at the speaker wires.
Anyway, I'm just going to put it all back to normal with the one speaker "out of phase", and keep grooving on some Nick Lowe and Cowboy Junkies. So strange because the regular wiring worked for me for years, but suddenly we have this alternate sound that cannot be explained, but it can be fixed!
So I got an old dusty Playstation One out of the basement (Stereophile Magazine's #1 all time CD player) and plugged the right and left channels directly into my Parasound Amp. So now we have bypassed the DAC and the Denon completely. After adjusting the levels on the back of the Parasound, I played multiple Stereophile test disks phase check tracks (both Fender bass guitar and even dogs!), and they all sounded better and proper with the "out of phase" wiring instead of "in phase." At this point, you are all rolling your eyes and saying one of his wires is crossed, but I have checked that many times. I also played other CDs, including Rebecca Pidgeon, that normally produce great imaging, and they are all better after I rewired that one speaker. It's interesting that the Denon, when included in the stream, still believes I have that one speaker out of phase, which I do if you just look at the speaker wires.
Anyway, I'm just going to put it all back to normal with the one speaker "out of phase", and keep grooving on some Nick Lowe and Cowboy Junkies. So strange because the regular wiring worked for me for years, but suddenly we have this alternate sound that cannot be explained, but it can be fixed!