What causes "cupped hands"?


I've been dealing with this puzzling phenomenon for several months. I can't seem to rid my system of the "cupped hands" or megaphone effect. Acoustic treatments seem to help but haven't diminished it to an acceptable point. I've been told that cables can cause it but haven't been able to confirm this. The system consists of:

Mark Levinson 390S CD Player
Antique Sound Lab KMP-60 Fox DT Amps
Aerial Acoustics 7B Speakers
1.5 Meter ZCable LIVE v4 Interconnects
4' ZCable PASSION v3 Speaker Cables

Any ideas?
skipperrik

Showing 1 response by rcrump

If you have the speakers 10' apart and are sitting 9' from them you are too close to the speakers or they are too far apart.....Think in terms of X x 1 wide and X x 1.15 to your ears........Something else that might be causing this is cable break-in as had something like cupped hands here a few days ago but leave everything on and playing as trying to burn in some teflon caps I use to roll off the lows in my main amps......Turn off your amps when not listening, but leave the CD player running on repeat for a few days to see if the problem doesn't go away.....