I took all these batteries off my speaker cables and put them back in my Tesla so I could go to work.
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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@tweakmenow Glad you had an open mind to try it and it made an improvement. So simple and cheap. Interesting how it affects some systems and not others. I did a blind test just to verify it was legit and confirmed these batteries were making a SQ improvement. Cheers! |
For the people who have experienced an impact with this tweak, how close is the battery to any connector? Is it just before it, like 1-2” away? In the case of speaker cables, is there any benefit if the battery’s poles are in direct contact with the binding post? This tweak seems to be a bit different from a physics standpoint from the AQ DBS system which I believe applies more of an electrostatic field to the entire dielectric of a cable, where this battery tweak might generate weaker electromagnetic fields around areas bound for leakage (at connection points). As such, this reminds me more of what Synergistic Research is doing with their Carbon Tuning Discs. |
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