@thyname @lalitk @juanmanuelfangioii
The Nova’s are directional, and it matters...guess how I know?
Thanks to thyname, I realized my right speaker cable was reversed.
I just switched the direction.
The difference was obvious immediately. The right channel is louder now and not surprisingly, the sound stage/channel separation is much better.
I got the SCs in December so a couple months of use. I must have missed the instructional diagram. I’ve been fussing with speaker position and listening position but ultimately thought it was the room (open plan kitchen/dining/living room/office - width more than twice the depth) so normal for my environment, and by this time my brain had forgotten how system sounded with the previous cables (also directional but with helpful arrows).
If I didn’t hear this so clearly for myself I would have doubted the effect of directionality. My theory was that the directionality of speaker cables were really set during break-in and that arrows were there to keep things ’organized’.
But, Zavfino burns them in using high voltage so my guess is the current I’ve put through them so far is trumped by the factory burn in process.
Perhaps it will get even better with time?
Anyway, thanks for helping me solve a problem I did not know I had.