cheapest cable upgrade ever


I have recently been playing with a very cheap upgrade of signal carrying cables: Attach one or two 1.5V AAA batteries with the ‘-‘ pole in the direction of the signal’s source. Simple strapping on with electrical tape) suffices, no need to connect anything. The benefits are very audible. The weak electric field conditions the outer layer of the conductor to improve electron flow, resulting in a strong increase in transparency and dimensionality. This works particularly well on the digital cable going into the router and streamer as well as the speaker cables (on the latter ‘+’ alligns with plus and ‘-‘ with minus, i.e. two batteries per single post speaker.

At a minimum it is a low cost bit of fun

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Amir attempted to test an AudioQuest Victoria Audio Cable with DBS Review and commented "How energizing an insulator traps RF works is based on principles above any known physics so don't know how to test that without alien technology. But we will test to see if noise is reduced in audio spectrum which is what we hear."

@mrskeptic Could be trolling...you will only know if you give it a try.  Many don’t but some are shocking successes.  

I think another inexpensive tweak is to stick some tubes (buy a couple of tube sockets) on top of any solid state gear...it's as useless as the battery thing but much better looking.

@gregm,

no Sir, no connecting.,Just tape the battery with orientation of signal direction. It creates a,weak electric field which is sufficient

There is no electromagnetic field (and certainly also no "electric field") if there is no current flowing. A battery per se is a chemical device, not an electrical device.

 

And there’s no general current flow direction with AC, it alternates, as the name implies.

 

And furthermore, an electromagnetic field that has an effect on an audio signal is known as an interference. It is important to keep an audio signal free from any electromagnetic interference, since this is always a distortion. Why should a signal that has been distorted by electromagnetic interference ever sound better than the undistorted original signal?