Re: Some serious cable measurements with interesting results.

On 1 Dec 2003 17:24:03 GMT, "Bruno Putzeys"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Perhaps you should first establish the existence of *real* audible
>> differences, before scrabbling around for measurements to explain
>> them. It's trivial to *measure* pretty large differences among cables,
>> but *audible* differences seem to be non-existent, except under the
>> most extreme cases of electrical difference.
>
>Thank you for your insight. I understand you do not believe balanced
>connections are worthwhile either, as "except under the most extreme cases
>of electrical difference" the ground loop noise will not affect our musical
>experience.

Nice attempt (not!) at a strawman argument, which is disappointing in
someone who claims an engineering background. Of course, I never said
any such thing. OTOH, I have a fairly benign EMC environment, and
balanced operation does indeed make no audible difference. In other
environments, this may not be the case. This does however have
*nothing* to do with the fatuous claims of the 'high end' cable
industry, which is based on psychobabble and numerology (yes,
really!), and simply has *never* been able to show *any* audible
difference under controlled conditions.

Tell you what - if you can demonstrate that you can hear statistically
significant differences among cables which measure to within +/- 0.1
dB from 100Hz to 10kHz at the speaker terminals (which won't affect
any of the claims made for magical constructions and materials), I
will award you the grand prize of £10,000, or 15,000 Euros if you
prefer.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering