SBGK;685552 Wrote: > in my orgy of covering things in tin foil I had wrapped about 5 inches > round the ethernet cable coming out of the laptop. > > I was listening to the 24/96 Nirvana Nevermind and noticed that the > sound had gone soft compared to the led zep I was listening to earlier. > I checked my laptop and somewhere along the line I had removed the tin > foil from the ethernet. Put it back on and the softness was gone, looks > like that little bit of tin foil is shielding the cable from the laptop > wireless, I guess. Just to check I stripped all the tinfoil from the > squeezebox as well and there was much more softness to the sound, so > added that back on and checked again, the little bit on the ethernet is > definately making a difference. Back to full on grunge. > > I know you rationalists are going to poo poo this, but from my > viewpoint it seems to work and this info might be useful to some > kindred spirit.
I have a similar finding and suggestion. I noticed that I would sometimes get a hard over pronounced treble that would be there for days, then go away for days. I finally found what caused it. I noticed that my un shielded analog cables out from my Dac were crossing the shielded digital interconnect coming in from the SBT. They were already only touching each other in a perpendicular fashion, but I separated them completely and that negative treble effect vanished! Touch them again and it was back. I think all of us here know the importance of keeping cables from running in parallel, but in some cases (like a digital interconnect carrying lots of high frequency signal with an unshielded analog cable) even having them cross each other can be bad. Immediately and demonstrably bad. So even though you might be always trying to keep cables away from each other and sources of noise, it's easy to move a component or cable in the forground and create an interference situation behind the rack out of sight. A simple and free tweak that made a considerable and surprising improvement. -- HumanMedia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HumanMedia's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44865 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93084 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
