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.
@clearthinker honestly i thought my system sounded better without the dust bunnies. 🤣
when it comes to cables, I know they can make a difference, but I doubt very much most are worth the retail. It was also enlightening to me how people who arent drinking the kool aid can hear a difference and still make radically different choices. |
The comment about perception is a good one. Some years ago there was an industrial engineering experiment to see what color on the walls of the cafeteria raised morale. They found that it wasn't the color as much as just making a change. Similarly when we want to hear a difference, we often do perceptually. |
But did you perform double blind test and what time of day was it? IMO you should never perform such an undertaking unless you are a qualified tech in the filed of cleaning fluids, and have a degree in this. Otherwise people on this site will give you no credibility to your findings. Please provide a You Tube video of exactly what you did so others here can follow and attempt to reproduce your outcomes. |
@lanx003 Afraid you're wayyyy too far gone for me. But I think you mean 'conductive'. Now, you say 'the dust layer on the cables becomes conductive" But the cables are heavily insulated. So the thin film cannot transmit any signal into the dielectrics. Dust can land on the terminations, so true believers might clean them often. It occurs to me that taping the terminations with insulating tape or some other benign tape will prevent dust from landng on them and save you having to clean all the terminations before sitting down to listen. If you have amplifiers with ventilation holes on the top surface, have you ever looked to see the amount of dust accumulated on the circuit boards and components inside. Crikey, it's thick and sitting on the actual boards that carry....oh no!!...signal. Your music. Anyhow don't worry! It's really hot in there, so any humidity that might tend to make the dust conductive soon evaporates. Phew! A narrow escape. Still it doesn't do any harm to go in there from time to time and vacuum out the dust...very carefully. The fastidious will want to polish the surface of the circuits on the board. |
