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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

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aolmrd1241
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antigrunge2...

How do you orientate the batteries + and -  terminals on rca interconnects?  Is it the same way as the speaker cables?

Thanks...Mark

pedroeb
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The original suggestion was to attach one or two 1.5V AAA batteries with the ‘-‘ pole in the direction of the signal’s source.

Is anyone aligning them differently?

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1happyman
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Trying to wrap my head around this.

For speaker wire, the red, +positive side from amp to the speaker would have the positive end toward the speaker and -neg toward the amp..

For the negative side terminal (same speaker) wire, is the + pos side oriented toward the speaker as well or is the - neg side toward the speaker and the +pos toward the amp? Can you post a speaker wire picture?

I like cheap.

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jji666
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I'm dubious of the effect but I agree with those who defend the suggestion.  Look, it's one thing to make sure noobs don't spend their money buying a $750 dongle that won't do anything, but these DIY tweaks are what the hobby is about - it's not snake oil if effectively free.

That said, I'd like a cogent scientific explanation...

antigrunge2 OP
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Dear all, on RCA, digital and ethernet: batteries close to the signal target with battery ‘-‘ to the source. On speakers: close to the speaker withsignal side with ‘-‘ to the amp, return with ‘-‘ to the speaker

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