I've been distressed recently by how my Crowns have been sounding compared to either of the Quads and have been pointing a sneaky finger at the little used replacement Neutrik equipped MG cables (course it's not the amps
). I carried on with the 303 and connected the MG cables to the phono outs on the CD player, switching the Crowns on with no speakers connected in the hope that several months of disuse hadn't upset anything (any viewers from the HDD forum will be having heart failure about now). I returned the Crowns fully back in the system yesterday and thought things were "on the mend," with some of the spatial info returning - no problems at all about timbre and fine details, just the way these three amps have with "3-D" information - a valve strong point in any case and something the Crofted II's are really strong on.
I didn't really care about cable burn-in as it's the least of our audio worries tbh, but I HAVE found that any disturbance in a system seems to need some hours playing for everything to settle back down, and this even if one isn't listening to it, so I doubt it could all be classed as imagination/expectation..
Originally Posted by DSJR
I've been distressed recently by how my Crowns have been sounding compared to either of the Quads and have been pointing a sneaky finger at the little used replacement Neutrik equipped MG cables (course it's not the ampsthis is why i think its difficult to know at first listen if a cable or indeed another piece of equipment substituted in is actualy better or worse, as you say you need to give your system time to settle again before making a final assesment, by that time it is easy for one to forget how the system sounded before, hence this is i feel the main reason why people keep swapping back and forth.
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