Sastusbulbas wrote:
Hi all, What are your views on power cables ?
Do they make any difference and is it possible that it can depend on hearing acuity and that this can be more accurate than scientific measurement ?
Do we believe because we are told they do and is it some sort of Placebo effect ?
Do we hear a difference or fool ourselves into believing because of the cost ?
There was an article in the Guardian recently, and according to the Guardian article we may all be idiots ?
Have any of you read this article and what are your views ? have you tried different cables and heard a difference or not ? Should we be able to hear any difference and how could we measure these differences.
If they can be measured , is there any manufacturers evidence ?
Steve
Yes in my view they do make a difference.
No it is not placebo effect, because that subject is worlds apart from this one.
Cost has no bearing on the level of improvement.
Yes the sanctimoniousidiot that wrote the article deserves now to be heaped onto the rest of the keyboard heroes that want attention more than they want to prove a valid point either way. They have lost all credibility to be taken seriouslyby their lack of objectivity and demonstratingoutright hostility and disdaintowards the subject.
What really hacks me off is that these faceless nameless intellectually bankrupt pundits are so fond of issuing challenges by the bucketload that is likely to cost others plenty of cash,but ask them to come along and do a simple listening test themselves and you watch them start back peddling like fury. What are they afraid of I wonder? Surely being level headed objective minded people they are not for one minute going to fall into the dreaded trap themselves and actually hear a difference?
At the end of the day what does it actually matter to THEM whether there is a difference or not because firstly, they can keep their hands in their pockets and never buy a sooper dooper cable against their willand secondly, who the heck appointed them as the moral guardians or saintly protectorates of the audiophool buying public in the first place?
As for measuring the differences, I believe the human hearing and perception is far more sophisticated and acute than any testsso far have revealed. Playing back fixed frequency sinewaves in tests conducted donkeys years ago to determine when hearing reaches it's limitations is fine for the primitive ways we have of measuring our hearing, but give it some complex music and the measurements go tits up with their inadequacy. Not only that but "better imaging", "sweeter treble"and "tauter bass" have yet to be measured apart from making the assumption that the presence or notof these traits is due to distortion artefacts. What utter cobblers. Science needs to get it's act together first beforethis long standing debate is finally settled.
But why is there this constant battle for cables to be recognised as making any difference at all, when we already accept as gospel that there are 'differences' in every other bit of kit you care to mention?Mention that Meridian sounds better to somethan Linn and the sky does not fall in and 30+ page debates rage about that do they?
There, I feel much better now