netchord wrote: > > ... > two weeks in, and it still sounded broken, and the right speaker sounded > much louder, with the image skewed to that side as well. granted, that > speaker is in a corner, so you'd expect some emphasis on that speaker, > but i'd never heard anything quite like this. i began to suspect that > maybe they'd mis-terminated it, and the speakers were out of phase, so i > swapped the +/- on one speaker. center image immediately improved, so i > left it that way for a while, but it sounded disjointed, bass suffered, > and i realized they'd been wired correctly after all. > > so i swapped +/- again, and voila! everything came into focus, center > image remained, bass improved, tightened up now, not overly boomy like > previously, and the sound had depth and space to it, and the sense of > effortless openness and neutrality i associated with my prior pair of > Ocos. by this time i'd been listening for a good 3 weeks, probably > 75-100 hours. > > so yes, cable does change over time; whether that's "burn in" or some > other term i can't say. >
Interesting anecdote and I'm glad for you that eventually things sound as it should again. My concern is that you switched the polarity of ONE speaker and center image IMPROVED running out of phase like this!? And you were somehow able to listen to music while running the speakers like this for 3 weeks (75-100 hours) before switching back to proper polarity! In essence, you're suggesting that the magnitude of audible change for you was like the difference between playing in and out of phase until this "burn-in" allowed everything to sound as it should!? Wow... That kind of improvement you speak of *must* be measurable if it actually occurs! After all these decades, if burn-in can create effect of this magnitude, I'm quite sure it would be well documented already. Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103502 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
