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

--
John the West Ham fan C.E.T.



"max graff" wrote in message
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Dear all,

I have been using the adorable Chord Company interconnects and speaker
cables for a while. Has anyone reviewed TCI Cobra interconnects
against the Chameleons? If so I would like to know your experiences.

Cheers Max

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


Yup. First it wasn't blind - you knew what was connected where,
therefore all that follows is void. Second, the only way you could get
that result is if you were playing different material through the two
channels. A lesser effect would occur if you managed to wire the two
speakers out of phase with each other, but you wouldn't get perfect left
and perfect right. You would certainly get no centre, but everything
else wafting vaguely around the speaker space.

d

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

Yup. First it wasn't blind - you knew what was connected where,
therefore all that follows is void. Second, the only way you could get
that result is if you were playing different material through the two
channels. A lesser effect would occur if you managed to wire the two
speakers out of phase with each other, but you wouldn't get perfect left
and perfect right. You would certainly get no centre, but everything
else wafting vaguely around the speaker space.

Never mind how much his hearing altered in the intervening period.

I thought it was a joke though ?

Graham

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

Reversed polarity in one cable.

--
Eiron.

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

Reversed polarity in one cable.

On an UNbalanced cable ?

Graham

Eeyore wrote:

Eiron 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. Absolutely amazing - no centre AT ALL. Perfect left, perfect
right, BUT NO centre stage. Phenomenal. Anyone ideas?
Reversed polarity in one cable.

On an UNbalanced cable ?

Graham

You're an ass, Eeyore. He's referring to speaker cable.

--
Eiron.

"housetrained" wrote in message


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.

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 !

He didn't say there was no bass though.

Graham

"Eeyore" wrote in
message
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.

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

You need balanced wiring.

An obvious example. ;~)

Graham