Cable Asylum

Posted by mojul (A) on April 10, 2023 at 20:57:20

In Reply to: RE: Do you elevate your speaker cables, and to what effect? posted by Mali on March 28, 2023 at 13:12:43

I have a small simple "Elfix detector" (Made in Sweden), with a buzzer on it, that can tell if there are power or no power on a line/cable. The sensitivity of the detector can be adjusted.
When I point the detector to the wall behind my sound system and move it around, the amount of radiation from the brick wall varies. About 10cm (ca. 4") from the wall the radiation gets much smaller and therefore I keep, at least, 10cm between all cables and the wall (especially on my unscreened phono cable).
My room is small, with limited space behind the sound system, and the only solution possible was to hang the cables, from threads fixed on long spikes, to keep the cables at a minimum of 10 cm from the wall and each other.

The meter can also tell if the power cable is in the right "phase" in your system. With all cables disconnected, but the power cable, the meter tells witch way the power plug should turn in the power outlet, the one with the lowest radiation reading, from your amps etc., is the right one. It makes a small but significant difference in sound, the music sounds more "real" in the right phase.

House13,
I am not sure if the metal rings around your cables are a good idea, could the field on your cables be affected?
In "The super cables cook book" by Allen Wright he advise not to shorten the ears, found on many cheap RCA connectors, to avoid messing up, at least a small amount, of the field around the cable.

I know, we, all here (?), do not use that kind of cheap RCA's, but it illustrates the point about the field being distorted by a metal around and close to the cable.

...never use a "shortened turn" of the ears ;-)

mojul