If you are not hearing any differences in cabling than you don't have a very revealing system or you are hard of hearing. Audiophiles rely upon cables to fine tune their system since most are not using tone controls. As far as construction goes, that would indicate the quality of the cable itself but certainly not the quality of the sound produced. It just like it used to be, trial and error the best cable is the one that produces the sound you want to hear in your system and in your listening room.
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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This dogma is repeated over and over with no proof of validity. Can you explain why cables when tested on machines that go far veyond human hearing show NO difference? What could it be that could possibly cause the difference you hear that the test equiptment doesn't? Your ears or your sytem are MORE revealing than the test equiptment? Here's a recent test of a $7 cable vs. a $4000 cable and there's no difference. |
There is ample reason to be skeptical of cable claims. Common sense tells us this if we listen. We are all familiar with the extreme claims of some that make little sense. As was said before, double blind testing assumes an audible and instantaneous difference between cables. It doesn’t work that way. It takes hours of listening to music familiar to me to understand evaluate and appreciate the differences. |
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