Black backgrounds and such

I have to say I always had the same question. It's hard to describe. Once you hear it you'll know. The first time I heard a blacker background is when I added a black box to my Octave V70se integrated. It was like clearer vocals and instruments. The next time was when I went from Dynaudio C1 speakers to Raidho D1's. Even more clarity. A side observation was when the music was playing loud I found myself being able to talk and not raise my voice when having a conversation.

Another example that really shocked me was when Lars K from Ansuz came to my home with a prototype power cable. Up until then power cables mattered but not to what I heard next. Before putting in the cable he pushed the volume to where the speakers popped. Then we replaced the power cable. Note my integrated remembers all settings after a power cycle. When we played the same track and the music sounded much clearer and even more dynamic. Then Lars turned up the volume until the speakers popped again. It didn't get quite twice as loud but very close to that. How could that be I asked after all it's just a power cable. Lars explained the power cable had a new circuit that shifted noise out of the audible band. It's just like the same circuit that the Navy uses to be able to hear a ping from a submarine that could be 100's of miles away. So what that does is let the integrated amplify more music and without noise. It was noise I didn't realize was even there. Ansuz calls it D-TC and have added that to almost all of their cables. Also because of that I heard more layers of resolution with the instruments and vocals.