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post #1 of 10
7/11/08 at 6:11am
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Taken one RCA interconnect from one brand/material and plugged it from source to amplifier and taken another RCA interconnect from another brand/material and plugged it from source to amplifier in the remaining channel - from there done a study on the sound ?

I hear terms like "more extended" "less grainy" "more detailed" which I would think you could pick up in this experiment

Thinks like "soundstage" and things that have to do with perceptions created by both ears working together would not be able to be tested with this though.
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post #2 of 10
7/11/08 at 10:17am
Yeah, sure.

Gotta be running a strictly mono signal through the setup and also try it with the headphones on the wrong ears as well as the correct ears (our ears are not identical so there can be different perceptions of the sound in each one ).

It can be an interesting experiment, particularly the more different the sound produced by the respective ICs is.

And, as you state, some components of the sound require a true stereo image through the whole IC, trying one IC at a time.

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Taken one RCA interconnect from one brand/material and plugged it from source to amplifier and taken another RCA interconnect from another brand/material and plugged it from source to amplifier in the remaining channel - from there done a study on the sound ?

I hear terms like "more extended" "less grainy" "more detailed" which I would think you could pick up in this experiment

Thinks like "soundstage" and things that have to do with perceptions created by both ears working together would not be able to be tested with this though.
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post #3 of 10
7/11/08 at 1:05pm
I've tried that, and with mono recordings, but it is SO hard to get any useful info out of doing this. More often than not, you won't hear a radical difference at all, or you'll give yourself an instant headache. It may not be easier to switch cables in and out, but it gives you a truer sense of what each set is actually doing.
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post #4 of 10
7/11/08 at 2:05pm
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Taken one RCA interconnect from one brand/material and plugged it from source to amplifier and taken another RCA interconnect from another brand/material and plugged it from source to amplifier in the remaining channel - from there done a study on the sound ?
That's a good way to detect defective cables. There shouldn't be any difference between the two channels. But remember to flop channels once in a while. There's more difference between our two ears than there is between two properly designed and built cables.

See ya
Steve
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post #5 of 10
7/12/08 at 10:34am
I think N3NTAL means listening to one channel then the other in quick succession to listen for differences.
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post #6 of 10
7/12/08 at 11:14am
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no, they have it right. listen in mono.
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post #7 of 10
7/14/08 at 7:44pm
So ie: the left sounds rolled off in the highs but bass heavy while the right sounds more forward and edgy but better balanced.
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post #8 of 10
7/15/08 at 2:02am
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yes, something like that. Because that is how people described changes perceived in new cables.
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post #9 of 10
7/15/08 at 7:15am
Heh, I started a thread like this a few weeks ago. Great minds think alike.
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post #10 of 10
7/15/08 at 6:58pm
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HAHAHA I didn't even see it I'll have to search
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