jon wrote:
off the cuff remarks like "we leave it to the customer" "everyones ears are different"
you could go on and on
I hear a differance some of the time
is it real? is it the cable ? is it an effect of certain cables with certain equipment?
does it matter if I am happy????
I think it does because lets say half of all the people who buy cables know it might be any of what I have said above some even think it might be a placebo http://skepdic.com/placebo.html
what you are still left with is a lot of people buying cables because companies make claims that are unproven
so therefore are being ripped off/missled
look at any cable sites start with the ones on dealers listing here then go to Russ Andrews then Kimber and Chord
size does not matter they all make claims
There are not going to be many cable companies up for it because if they fuck it up, they are going down big time I expect every company big or small to have an answer or excuse for not taking part or an answer or excuse if they failedSurely the fact that some cable vendors (Russ Andrews, for example) claim that their mains cables will audibly enhance even budget equipment means that this is a reasonable thing to test - so long as the supplier of the cable in question makes this claim about it, why not test it?Mr Goldacre really has lost the plot. There is a 'difference' from swapping the power cord on a transport but 1) It's ever so subtle and 2) You need high resolution ancillaries to detect that subtle change. Whether he can detect any worthwhile differences is more conjecture than certainty.
Been watching this debate, and tbh I'm surprised that no cable vendors have taken the chance to organise a blind test to verify their claims about sound quality. This isn't a dig at you Effem - I know that a small company may have limited resources - but for a larger companies one would expect that the publicity they could get in the Guardian from doing such a test would be well worth the cost of carrying it out (if they believe that their claims are verifiable). Compared to the cost of advertising space in the Guardian (bloody expensive), organising a trial wouldn't cost *that* much...
Jon
off the cuff remarks like "we leave it to the customer" "everyones ears are different"
you could go on and on
I hear a differance some of the time
is it real? is it the cable ? is it an effect of certain cables with certain equipment?
does it matter if I am happy????
I think it does because lets say half of all the people who buy cables know it might be any of what I have said above some even think it might be a placebo http://skepdic.com/placebo.html
what you are still left with is a lot of people buying cables because companies make claims that are unproven
so therefore are being ripped off/missled
look at any cable sites start with the ones on dealers listing here then go to Russ Andrews then Kimber and Chord
size does not matter they all make claims