Most Important, Unloved Cable...


Ethernet. I used to say the power cord was the most unloved, but important cable. Now, I update that assessment to the Ethernet cable. Review work forthcoming. 

I can't wait to invite my newer friend who is an engineer who was involved with the construction of Fermilab, the National Accelerator Lab, to hear this! Previously he was an overt mocker; no longer. He decided to try comparing cables and had his mind changed. That's not uncommon, as many of you former skeptics know. :)

I had my biggest doubts about the Ethernet cable. But, I was wrong - SO wrong! I'm so happy I made the decision years ago that I would try things rather than simply flip a coin mentally and decide without experience. It has made all the difference in quality of systems and my enjoyment of them. Reminder; I settled the matter of efficacy of cables years before becoming a reviewer and with my own money, so my enthusiasm for them does not spring from reviewing. Reviewing has allowed me to more fully explore their potential.  

I find fascinating the cognitive dissonance that exists between the skeptical mind in regard to cables and the real world results which can be obtained with them. I'm still shaking my head at this result... profoundly unexpected results way beyond expectation. Anyone who would need an ABX for this should exit the hobby and take up gun shooting, because your hearing would be for crap.  
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Geoffkait: "I once had coffee at a diner in NYC that boasted World’s Best Coffee."

To which jujitsu replied,

"For a purported expert of what constitutes valid testing you sure don’t understand the difference between an entirely subjective claim (taste) with objective ones like increased sound stage, stereo separation, more defined highs etc..."

>>>>>As someone pointed out already those audio characteristics are not objective. I already addressed subjective characteristics in two posts. To clarify what I am referring to, and avoid confusion, the parameters I described included separation of instruments which of course is not to be confused with channel separation. I also included musicality, presence, air and sweetness. No one would dispute that some audio parameters CAN be measured, channel separation, frequency response, dynamic range to name three.

Now if Chord simply said "The world’s best sounding cable" they would have been fine.

I feel like the Ben Shapiro of Audio.

>>>>>You might feel like the Ben Shapiro of Audio but you sound like the Ben Stiller of Audio.


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"The cable is important if you want to get data transferred. It’s not involved in the SQ"

That’s pretty much sums it up.