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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.

erik_squires
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thyname
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@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.

 

invalid
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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.

mrskeptic
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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.

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thyname
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tall, wooden things to put behind their speakers,

They are called “acoustic panels “. Google it. Acoustic panels ARE a thing for audio

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tomcy6
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@mceljo 

Depending on how your friend washed his car, if any of the suspension components got wet it’s possible that it could have a positive effect, at least temporarily, on the ride quality. Also, wet tires should be slightly softer (they certainly cut easier) and that could also temporarily soften the ride which would feel good.

My friend and I didn’t feel that our cars RODE more comfortably, we felt the engines and drive trains RAN better. Two different things.

 

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