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A fresh approach to cable analysis

Here’s an interesting idea that I wish someone would do. Start a YouTube channel in which you take full range of power cords, interconnects, and speaker wire ranging from cheap to top-of-the-line and carefully dissect them and expose how they are constructed and with what. In the past, we have been through all the arguments about measurements and subjective evaluation, and that gets us nowhere. I think, looking at the physical construction of these chords, which I assume almost no one ever does, especially on the more expensive ones, would produce some surprising results and really be hard to argue with. I’m sure manufacturers would hate this idea, but I don’t think there’s any way legally that they could challenge it. 

bruce19
gdaddy1
492 posts
 

There have been many tests on cables done over the years.. They have shown no difference (not even a little) that there are $7 dollar cables that equal $4000 cables. One test a green banana performed well !

For those who refuse ro believe these tests, a more specific double blind test is effective. Either you can hear a difference or not. An expensive cable that "clearly makes sound improvements" should be easily detected. This method also has shown the cables are indetectable between them.

After all this, are a lot of people who still swear their 'expensive' cables are worth spending the money.

The guilt trip... after you spend God knows how much money on an expensive system "you'd be a fool to connect it using cheap cables!". Another one is... "the better the system the more you NEED expensive cable". 

The real root of the problem is the human brain is very suseptible to bias. There are 12 types defined as cognitive bias. This is the real problem. Even proper double blind tests will still be viewed with scepticism due to bias suggesting there's been foul play. Conspiracy theories are easy to implement due to this weakness. 

It's an arguement you can't win.

cleeds
6,544 posts
 

This is a rather tiring controversy and I'm not really interested in "argument" with @gdaddy1. But for a thoughtful refutation, it's difficult to do better than "The Blind, the Double Blind, and the Not-So Blind" by John Atkinson.

bruce19 OP
355 posts
 

Respectfully,Some of this discussion is just a rehash of arguments that I initially stated tend to get us nowhere. No one seems to have specifically commented on the idea of taking apart cables, and showing other people what’s inside them. does anybody know of another site that has done such a thing in a systematic way.b

kennyc
2,873 posts
 

Minimal incentive to pay for expensive cables to dissect then becoming worthless

gdaddy1
492 posts
 

@bruce19  If you cut open a cable how would you know what you're looking at?Who knows what kind of copper is used or if it's been 'cryogeniclly treated or not. It could be anything.

Without test equiptment you don't know the resistance, inductance, capacitance or how effective the shielding is which would be WAY more producive than cutting it open and simply looking at it.

 

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