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Arny Krueger wrote:

"housetrained" wrote

Tried a blind listening test the other day. Connected
left channel and left speaker with my chords and the
right channel and right speaker with my cobras.

What was blind about this?

Absolutely amazing - no centre AT ALL. Perfect left,
perfect right, BUT NO centre stage. Phenomenal. Anyone
ideas?

Yeah, this often happens with speaker cables. You
inadvertently hooked one cable up with reversed polarity
as compared to the other.

Now if they used XLRs or SPEAKONs there'd be no chance
of that !

Right, but pro audio technology is verboten in the weird world of
audiophilia. Just because it was the technology that was used to make the
recordings in the first place is meaningless to your average audiophile.
Remember those idiots from aus.hi-fi who thought that balanced interfaces
would not be beneficial in home audio systems?

He didn't say there was no bass though.

A lot of audiophile speakers are so weak in the bass department that there
may be nothing to cancel out.