I have to respectfully disagree with the positive responses. Impedence matching is so important that to monkey with that in the way that a Y would do will skew the results. I concur with the break-in period as there is in effect a "charging" process. I've spent consideraable time comparing interconnects and haven't really found much ambiguity when the right one was installed. I've had trouble picking second place, but first has been obvious. And don't expect the right one to necessarily be the right one for each of your components.
A/B test of interconnects - Will this work???
I have some spare time on my hands over the next couple of weeks and thought I'd sit down and try to figure out whether I can "really" hear differences between interconnects that I have accumulated. My thought was to put a Y-adapter on my cd player output and run one set of interconnects to the cd input on my integrated amp and another set of interconnects to another input. Then I can sit in one place and use the remote to flip between the two inputs while playing a cd.
I don't think this should blow anything up (let me know if you know otherwise) but will it work for what I intend? Or will the mere existence of another interconnect hanging off the Y taint whatever results I get?
Thanks for any thoughts.
Bill
I don't think this should blow anything up (let me know if you know otherwise) but will it work for what I intend? Or will the mere existence of another interconnect hanging off the Y taint whatever results I get?
Thanks for any thoughts.
Bill