It would appear that the placebo effect mentioned by mictester has not fully worked for Audio Arenaline!
Is it too silly to suggest obtaining phono splitters in order to experiment with running the old and new interconnects in parallel?
That's a cool idea for anyone wants to test if they can hear a difference in two sets of cables at home with a good friend. It might in some systems allow hot swapping cables on the fly using a make before break double cabling before pulling one cable out without needing to turn off gear. Ideally a helper would swap cables around so the listener doesn't know which cable is in place. Audio sensory working memory is very short so rapid switching is a useful strategy. Running a simple home trial like this allows expectation bias to be challenged. Remember expectation bias is so strong many a pilot has died from it.
What do you mean? You asked for opinions and that's mostly what you gotsorry for opening such a can of worms I have learned some quite interesting insight from all of you with your experiences -did not mean to cause any trouble
Yes, it is Litz. Thank you for pointing this out. Never crossed my mind, as i have no other experience with stranded silver. Useful knowledge!
Possible but unlikely. Only use the old kitchen foil/ bicarbonate recipe once the sulfide layer becomes intolerable.
Exactly.
Similarly, as long as the speaker cables have no significant resistance (one manufacturer did supply deliberately resistive speaker cables in the 1980s), no change of speaker cable will ever be audible. No amount of silver, gold, antimony or platinum will make the slightest difference - except to price!
for example you can hear the quality of sound change in my system at different times of day as they change the amperage of the ac power they are putting through at around 5-6 pm
Oh dear. Some basic understanding of electrical properties required here....
The supply VOLTAGE may vary, and if that has an audible effect on the way your equipment sounds, your equipment is defective.
Competently designed amplifiers (and pre-amplifiers) are designed to be unaffected by the accepted range of power supply. If the supply to your house is sub-standard, leading to significantly lowered voltages during periods of peak demand, get on to your electricity supplier and get them to repair your supply.
Exotic cables lie more in the realm of art than in science.
While science merely measures nature, art aims to improve on it.
Science seeks to control, while art seeks to liberate.
Discuss!
You all sound like the guys looking in the window of the McLaren showroom insulting the price of something you don’t want to pay that much for or appreciate. None of you have said you have any of this silver wire so how would you know? And is the rest of your system and hearing up to revealing the difference. In my system solid silver wire sounds better than the silver plated copper wire which sounds better than the copper wire. Your value system and hearing may differ.
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