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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

antigrunge2
rumi
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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? 

rumi
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Well, not the ideal thread for a first post, I know... 

rumi
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And there are quite some currents flowing through a loudspeaker cable. The dielectic shielding keeps these currents from acting as a capacitor. How should your "weak electric field" interfere with the signal throught the shields which are there to keep much stronger interference away from the signal?

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dinov
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Sounds like audioquest dbs?

antigrunge2 OP
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@rumi 

An electric field inside the battery builds up, pointing from the + terminal to the − terminal. This field opposes the motion of H+ ions — they cannot cross to the + terminal, and the reaction stops. When the terminals are connected by a conductor, on the other hand, electrons freely flow to the + terminal.

 

Just try it, it won’t kill you nor your wallet

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