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/

samureyex

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.

 

smiley

 
 

 

 

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.

No cable have a sound of their own.  

Guess why ?

A clue : they are parts of a whole called sound by acoustics...

The  string of a violin had no sound of his own, it depend of many parameters as his diameter, composition, tension, etc ...

An audio cable is a link in a vibrating sound source giving to it or adding to it  his own changing specific  parameters... Then a specific sound ... because the human ears is very sensible to change  qualities .... A field well investigated now... See video by Milind Kunchur in my new thread...

A second funny point. AG members fault Amir for not listening to products. Now you have to admit he DOES listen to products. Just the results, taking psychoacoustics into account, are not the way AG likes it. Ooops. LOL!