I have found out why new cables and tweaks actually work!



The issue is now solved via irrefutable scientific data and rigorous validation after unprecedented levels of physical effort. I now know why swapping cables works, and why a great deal of other tweaks work too.

I spent a great deal of time over the weekend cleaning my entertainment center. I used a Swiffer with the extending wand attachment. Immediately afterwards I went to watch a movie and the sound was clearer, cleaner than I’d ever heard it before. The video didn’t change, but the audio, it was so good I stopped playing the Fellowship of the Ring for the 10th time and went to listen to music.

Oh my goodness, what deep and extended soundstage! Not only could I hear deeper into all of my music but instruments had bodies and height! Diana Krall was so palpably present I wanted to buy her dinner. But what had changed?? Every single cable was left as it was, but I had cleaned!!

That’s when it hit me. All my tweaks and all my cable replacements did nothing. It was the cleaning I did every time I replaced a set of cables that actually caused the revolutionary transformations I was experiencing.  Same for every other audiophile!! You've ignored the cleaning and ascribed changes to gear.  We've been fooled!

On a completely unrelated note, I will soon be releasing my own line of advanced, jitter free, cleaning solutions, in peach, evergreen, unscented and Axe Body Spray fragrances.

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My car runs better after an oil change!!! However, I can’t find the oil drain on my audio system!!! I guess I’ll have to use that new reverse illumination flashlight to look for them. It’s in the toolbox with the left handed screwdriver!!! Happy holidays. Needed a good laugh. 

@galvarado69 : did you actually read the article you posted? Everyone has a Google Machine these days.

 

It was not a controlled test. It was an Internet poll. Which are typically only attended by cable deniers like yourself. Copy / paste:

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In order to determine if people could hear the difference between a coathanger and a cable, we posted a poll in an earlier version of this article. We asked readers to listen to ten audio samples—two head-to-head at a time—and rate which ones sounded better than others, or if they were the same. In every single one of the five comparisons, one sample was recorded over a coathanger cable, and the other was recorded with a high-end cable.

On SoundGuys, the “both sound the same” option won every single poll question handily. While we didn’t have a large sample size, it’s more than the 2008 study’s sample set, so I’m happy with this.

 

I never noticed speaker cables sounding different, until I built a dedicated room and bought some apogee duetta 2 speakers, there really is a big difference between speaker cables.

You're joking, but with some shrewd marketing, you'll find buyers. I mean, if people by tiny rubber dots to stick on their windows, of tall, wooden things to put behind their speakers, they're people out there who would buy audiophile grade dusters.