cheapest cable upgrade ever


I have recently been playing with a very cheap upgrade of signal carrying cables: Attach one or two 1.5V AAA batteries with the ‘-‘ pole in the direction of the signal’s source. Simple strapping on with electrical tape) suffices, no need to connect anything. The benefits are very audible. The weak electric field conditions the outer layer of the conductor to improve electron flow, resulting in a strong increase in transparency and dimensionality. This works particularly well on the digital cable going into the router and streamer as well as the speaker cables (on the latter ‘+’ alligns with plus and ‘-‘ with minus, i.e. two batteries per single post speaker.

At a minimum it is a low cost bit of fun

antigrunge2

The effect is strongest on larger diameter single core cables, significantly less on litz, where skin effect is less of an issue.

Just tried it on my Townshend F1 speaker cables and I'm sorry to say I heard no improvement.

ozzy

It’s not a solid core. They use what they call fractal wire. But it does contain a Zobel type network inside the ends.

ozzy