Amir of ASR admitted 1 cable sounded better than the other. NOT CLICKBAIT

There is a recent thread inquiring about the Puritan PSM156, and someone lead to another product the Niagara 1200. Long story short. I come across a review of Amir admitting the "Generic" cable sound better than the Audioquest chain.

If 1 cable can sound better than another, and Amir has admitted to it. Is there really anything left to discuss except that we have been right all along?

Proof: Go to the "Listening Test" of the review.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/audioquest-niagara-1200-review-power-conditioner-surge-protector.25443/

samureyex04-21-2026 12:28am

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jallan Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 414 posts 04-21-2026 at 02:30pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete When I read discussions like this I think of the movie “Don’t look up.”
hilde45 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 6,000 posts 04-21-2026 at 02:38pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I'm glad to be on the correct side of this debate. Polarization and enmity, forever!
mapman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 23,597 posts 04-21-2026 at 02:39pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete All wires DO NOT, repeat, Do NOT sound the same. There I said it. Do I go viral now? 🏆
mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 15,046 posts 04-21-2026 at 02:51pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I changed my mind: I can vouch now that all cables sound the same. But i must confess i bought all of these cables from Amir who kept for him the only one which sound better than them all.
oberoniaomnia Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 351 posts 04-21-2026 at 02:55pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Context matters. I haven't seen this particular one, but Amir has pointed out that the cheaper sounds better than the expensive one before. HOWEVER, this was always in the context of the second "fill in the blank" sounds better. This is part of phsychoacoustics. Amir only points out that he is just as susceptible to psychoacoustic effects as everybody else. But by going from expensive first to cheap second leads to an unexpected result, namely cheaper is perceived better, although in reality they are exactly the same. There is still, to this day, no well-executed double blind test that shows cables to differ in sound. No need to get overly excited that Amir "admits" that cables sound different. It is only psychoacoustics.