Upgrade of the day: Shorter cables

[olds1959special]

I was thrilled to realize I could use 3 foot instead of 6 foot RCA cables from pre-amp to amp. I just had to move things a little bit, and there's not much slack, but it's worth it for the sound. I heard a difference!

 

[AudiOhm]

Please let us know who helped you with the Blind Tests...

Ohms

 

[Somafunk]

I was thrilled to realize I could use 3 foot instead of 6 foot RCA cables from pre-amp to amp. I just had to move things a little bit, and there's not much slack, but it's worth it for the sound. I heard a difference!

Of course you heard a difference, the signal has 36” less distance to travel so only a complete idiot would think otherwise

 

[olds1959special]

I hate long RCA cables.

 

[Axo1989]

I hate RCA cables.

 

[Chrispy]

This some sort of weird sense of humor or you have some issues with how things actually work?

 

[wadude]

Slack is good.

 

[Gary_G]

RCA: Real Close Audio

 

[TheWalkman]

(Tough crowd tonight!)

 

[olds1959special]

Slack is good.

I would prefer to have a little more slack on one side but there is enough as long as things don't get yanked.

 

[egellings]

Of course you heard a difference, the signal has 36” less distance to travel so only a complete idiot would think otherwise

Lesser capacitance of the shorter cable may have resulted in a bit less HF rolloff if the source impedance feeding it were sufficiently high.

 

[Multicore]

I hate RCA cables.

I hate cables. Bane of my existence.

 

[Selkirks]

 

[BeeKay]

Thesis would not survive a blind test. As usual.

 

[phoenixdogfan]

I would prefer to have a little more slack on one side but there is enough as long as things don't get yanked.

Yanking tends to eliminate slack. Voice of experience.

 

[Bleib]

Better timing, faster attack etc?

 

[boxerfan88]

Cable shortened by half, sound quality doubled.

 

[MaxwellsEq]

That's why integrated amplifiers are always better than separates and the old radiograms are the best

 

[Zek]

Cable shortened by half, sound quality doubled.

Cable shortened by a quarter, sound quality quadrupled...

 

[Berwhale]

Duh, reducing cable length and therefore the volume occupied by the cables increases the quantity of air in the room and in your music. It's not rocket science people!