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Cables ... no longer opinion

PS Audio has already did the research. The answers are available forevermore.
The testing is sound, and not flawed. Their test results find exactly the same results my cable manufacturer found and preached. Josh from Downsize Audio Cables also found two strips of foils, stacked on top of each other and secured together made the best sounding speaker cables. I've tried all kinds of hyper expensive cables to dethrone the Downsize Audio foils ... NOTHING comes close at any price.
      Downsize used a genuine teflon backed adhesive tape, double sided too, and custom rolled, extra thin foil of 6N purity. BUT he told me a person can get 90% of the same sound quality, using off the shelf inductor foils and standard thin packing tape. Try it and save tens of thousands of dollars.
https://www.psaudio.com/copper/article/the-sound-of-speaker-cables-an-analysis/
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glupson
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"He is a genius inventor and engineer..."

He may as well be, but he is surely lacking ability to show it in writing. Like in that article quoted in the original post. It is really embarassing to put one’s name under/above those statements and explanations. He is not lacking ability to pull people to believe everything he says.

"He knows more about technology than the entire forum’s experience combined."

That is not saying much. Aside of that, technology is a very broad term. Propulsion of spaceships may have very little to do with minutia of chocolate production, or speaker design.

"He may have the single most researched and soundly engineered products offered to the hifi community."

Who is researching them?
glupson
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gerryah930,

"Humans vary tremendously in their ability to resolve musical details. It is not a bell shaped curve."

Why do you think it is not a bell-shaped curve? In particular after stating tremendous variation.
glupson
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I just wasted some time reading that PS Audio/Max T. link. Attempt at science, for sure, credible statements, surely not.

Any deviation from “flat” should be measurable and will most likely be audible as a tonal change in the audio signal.
No, most likely not. Do not assume.

"The experimental method has been described in detail, to enable researchers to repeat the tests in order to verify the conclusions."

Where has it been described? Not in the video link provided. At least not a comprehensive method.

"There is little doubt that speaker cables affect the sound of audio systems. Audiophiles have known this since the 1970s and there has been an ongoing debate ever since."


How come there is an ongoing debate when there is little doubt? Even "little doubt" is an exaggerated assumption.

"This analysis clearly describes the cause of audible differences between a range of cables, and the examples included demonstrate this effect."

If anything, it describes oscilloscope readings and not audible differences.

"This is analogous to the chaos in speaker cables where there is a mismatch between the cable and the speaker. This chaos is the main reason for the all-so-common brightness and hardness heard in audio systems."

Says who? Based on what? In whole test, nobody listened to anything.

It goes on and on with some marketing quasi-scientific mumbo-jumbo. It would not be accepted at the middle-school science fair.
glupson
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"Same as the ones who know more EE than Max Townshend."


...who is famous for electric engineering of.....seismic isolation podium.
glupson
7,842 posts
 
"I had over $100,000 worth of Tara labs RSC cable......I wish I had that money back."

You should have asked first.
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