Every product we buy has some sort of marketing lingo to make their products the best ever. Cables are a product that also does this. Here’s my take, buy what YOU like and feel comfortable spending. Second,STOP telling others what to,think,hear,and spend. If you disagree with what someone is spending on cables,MOVE ON. It truly is none of anybody’s business how others spend THEIR money. Oh,and by the way,I like the idea of the cable YouTube channel.
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.
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Never. I live in the USA, where we have a Constitution which includes our Bill Of Rights. Those protections are best served for speech we do not like; for speech with which we disagree. I will defend @total111's right to post anything he wants (short of things like murder for hire). But this is a privately owned forum. So the administrators get the final word on what they allow on the platform that they own.
I am 100% in favor of science. I have not been presented with such proof from @total111. Quite the opposite. He makes unsubstantiated claims of double-blind testing, and refuses the proof of using his own ears. Are you reading this? Prove it with a science. You do not have to prove what you see right in front of you. Same for hearing sounds that are right in front of you.
You are implying that super-human hearing is needed to hear what quality cables do for a revealing stereo. Do you need an electron microscope to read these words, or to choose a 4K television over a 1972 rabbit ear's TV? Do you need science to prove that a BBQ smells better than a turd?
@gdaddy1 You have revealed that you have never heard a revealing stereo with quality, high-end cables. You are claiming that what I and countless others clearly hear is imaginary. From your lack of ever experiencing the sound quality of such a stereo, I do not blame you for being skeptical, and thinking that we are nuts. It takes no super-human hearing. You could have lost half of your hearing, and you would still be able to easily hear a revealing stereo's sound quality improvement if you swap out the cables from Target with Audioquest Sky cables. Yes, you would hear it, and it would take you 5 seconds to hear it.
Everyone has lust. But not everyone goes around groping people. We control our bias. But bias has nothing to do with what is plain to hear. Bias implies that it is a strain to hear, and we allow our bias to influence us. Is choosing a 4K TV, over a 1972 rabbit ear's TV bias?
Of course it is true, precisely because I hear it. Am I supposed to believe you, and not my own ears? You would hear it too, if you sat in front of a revealing stereo with quality, high-end cables. You are reading these words. Is that true, because you believe that you can see these words? Or is it your bias that is fooling you that you are reading these words. You need to shake loose your belief that quality high-end cables require dog ears to be heard. You have the wrong impression. You find it difficult to accept what you never experienced. So others must be imagining things. Ten seconds of exposure to a high-end system with a cable swap would rock your world. |
The absence of a wide-spread consensus is due to the absence of a proper double-blind listening test. To my knowledge, such a proper test has never been conducted. I have asked several times for a link to such a test. No one has posted any links. If a proper double-blind listening test would be performed, then the participants would walk away and say that they did not need to be kept in the dark (in a manner of speaking). They will walk away, wondering why the cloak and dagger for what was so plain to hear. No blind listening test is needed to compare Radio Shack's Realistic speakers to Magico speakers. And although cables will not be as obvious as such a speaker swap, the cable swap would still be plainly obvious. There is a disease, of sorts, with cable deniers. They are convinced (or pretend to be convinced) that only superman and his dog can hear the difference. The rest of us need to strain our ears until they bleed, to hear a difference. That is all nonsense. No super-human hearing is necessary. No confirmation from Scooby-Doo is necessary. Those insisting that a double-blind test is needed are those that never heard what is plain to hear. And that makes sense, because such stereos are hard to come by. And high-end audio stores are few and far between. And they will not allow you to walk in and swap out their cables for a listening test. |
@seymour-krelborn Did you take the test? |
Everything that I wrote I supported with quotes. Your threat will not silence the truth.
Quote me. Or are you angry over not being able to support your position?
We agree. It is fun to be truthful.
You are reading an emotional state that does not exist (unless you are imposing your anger as mine?). Are you angry? I am not. And it was rude of you to make such a claim. I forgive you, because you assumed a state of mind where you guessed wrong. You can suggest that I or anyone move on. But that is seen as you surrendering, because you can't support your position. So you try to intimidate others into leaving. You don't get your way, and so you cry foul, and you claim emotional instability, and you try intimidation. That is not nice. That is improper etiquette. Am I reading your tone, incorrectly? Do not make personal attacks. Rather, support your position, and do so with good manners. |
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