Porziob: Are your oft-repeated sentiments about DBT prompted by having participated in many yourself? Just curious whether it's experience or not that makes you convinced cables can never pass a blind test. Personally I've never done a blind cable test -- since I have no 'auidobuddies' it isn't really feasible for me to accomplish. In fact, it would probably be difficult for anybody to accomplish, as a double-blind -- I think single-blind is a much more realistic prospect for most folks.
But whether one actually goes to this trouble to arrive at their cable conclusions is another question. Have you? You obviously don't feel that you yourself can hear differences between cables, and you extend that verdict to the rest of us. But did you always think that way, or were you originally open-minded and it took extensive DBT to convince you? (As for me, I was originally an open-minded doubter, and it took listening experience to convince me there was anything to it. Which isn't to say that cables necessarily always make huge differences, or that a lot of the technical claims aren't hogwash, or that cable pricing can't sometimes be a free-market bad joke run amok.)
Of course, I'm setting you up with this question. If in fact you haven't participated in enough DBT to assure yourself that both you and others indeed cannot hear cable differences (under those conditions, I must add), then you'd be a hypocrite for exhorting everyone else to do so. You'd be in the same boat as most of the rest of us, reaching your cable conclusions based on plain old regular auditioning at best, maybe augmented by hypothosizing. So here you're kind of compelled to either assert that you've done plenty of DBT -- even though it's hard to imagine why an averred cable-skeptic would -- or else admit hypocrisy. Maybe it's better just not to answer...
But whether one actually goes to this trouble to arrive at their cable conclusions is another question. Have you? You obviously don't feel that you yourself can hear differences between cables, and you extend that verdict to the rest of us. But did you always think that way, or were you originally open-minded and it took extensive DBT to convince you? (As for me, I was originally an open-minded doubter, and it took listening experience to convince me there was anything to it. Which isn't to say that cables necessarily always make huge differences, or that a lot of the technical claims aren't hogwash, or that cable pricing can't sometimes be a free-market bad joke run amok.)
Of course, I'm setting you up with this question. If in fact you haven't participated in enough DBT to assure yourself that both you and others indeed cannot hear cable differences (under those conditions, I must add), then you'd be a hypocrite for exhorting everyone else to do so. You'd be in the same boat as most of the rest of us, reaching your cable conclusions based on plain old regular auditioning at best, maybe augmented by hypothosizing. So here you're kind of compelled to either assert that you've done plenty of DBT -- even though it's hard to imagine why an averred cable-skeptic would -- or else admit hypocrisy. Maybe it's better just not to answer...