Cable Wars - ASR Review of Kimber KS 1036 Silver RCA Cable ($4500 pair)

@gkelly : Yeah, it might have been in the 80's when the AudioQuest switchbox appeared and was quickly withdrawn. The last time I smoked real Thai stick was around 1974 in Vancouver.

After reading the Science Guys review such as it was. I got the impression he was not interested in anything but himself. His results were claimed to be outside the threshold of human perception. I don't see why such people bother.

Silver allows push-pull because of the difference between it and copper. Which is audible as 'wholeness'. This After a reasonable time deteriorates because the other parts of the circuit compensate. Those darned electrons doing what they do!.

None the less I would not trust the sciencey map, because that is not good engineering

You know how it goes with asr measurements—why even bother talking about it? Every once in a while, it’s still very annoying to see this type of discussion come up. There are perceived SQ elements that the current testing / measurement could not pick it up.  Plus you have the person who can not tell the difference among DACs and largely leaves out the critical listening test part.  What benefit to this communicty could it possibly have by talking about his type of measurement.

Look at and compare the LCR and geometry properties of the cables would probably lead to more meaningful outcomes.

I would take the word over companies that make almost a billion dollars a year than some dude’s oscilloscope he found on marketplace. We all know he might be right but it just comes across as the guy waving the sign “the end is near”. 

@gkelly 

Apparently, Amir uses a Audio Precision APx55 analyzer in his tests. These start around $40k for a basic, naked model. Apparently he is past the point of buying busted scopes off of marketplace. 

Besides, there seems to be no point in insulting all the folks who got their start in the hobby with a classic analog $25 craigslist scope that they fixed themselves. That includes me.

And as far as "taking the word of companies"...

Sometimes I agree with you, but this isn't one of those times.