Are cable recommendations worth anything?

ahofer

... These things happen all the time and are quite legal. The double blind host gets compensated for his time. I pay him if I lose, but I ask that you do so if you can’t tell the difference. There is no DA on earth who would call it a scam.

You’re pursuing a scam.
Beware the audio guru.

No one serious about exploring valid double-blind tests would taint them by introducing elements of financial loss or gain. Remember, you want to avoid as many variables and outside influences as possible. That’s the whole point of doing a scientific test.

Nothing here has convinced me that you are anything but petrified to face reality on this point.

Still casting bait, eh? It’s best to give it a rest.

As I have said before, such arguments are a waste of life. 

If people think I know how to establish superior audio systems, they will listen to my recommendations. If people think someone else has the best methods, they will listen to them. 

I used to care about people with poor sound. I used to try hard to convince them they could have better. It was nothing but contention, argument. No need for that. So, I quit it. 

Have fun waging your war, people.   :) 

In my experience, cables do have a sound of themselves when connected to the same components...although they may very well sound different connected to different componets.  In ,my system, Purist made the system sound much like tubes with  sweet rolled off highs...but with a texture.  Cardas closed in and flattened the sound, Audioquest Sky seemed perfect, but their WmFLowe top of the line was awful for me. Blue Jean's told me they are in the cable business, not in the Audiophile business.  Try them all and choose the one you like.

@audio2design,

'It will of course be noted that "Audio Reviewers" did poorly. Retail audio sales, better, but not great. Selected and trained did by far the best. Selected mainly by good hearing (which I suspect many here no longer have), and trained to listen for specific defects for loudspeakers.'



This could be a major problem with all of our opinions, learned and experienced as they might be. Just how good is our hearing? Can you imagine how skewed our impressions might be if we were to have one or two dips at various frequencies?

Perhaps it's high time someone put out a comprehensive online listening test measuring both our ability to hear not only comparitive loudness but different frequencies. 

I mean where would it leave the opinions of someone whose hearing becomes irregular above 8kHz? You'd think it would be mandatory for reviewers (and anyone working in pro audio) to have thorough hearing tests, but apparently it is not.

Floyd Toole's work might not get us all to the audio promised land, but nevertheless it remains a valuable map for anyone attempting to navigate their way to sonic excellence.

It's not really too surprising that in addition to the importance of a flat on-axis performance and smooth off axis performance, listeners also gave bass a 30% weighting when assessing overall performance, is it?