Quote:
1. "Evolution gave humans brains which are actually wired to
overdetect. Better that you should run from the predator you
thought you heard than be eaten by the one you didn't."
You're only looking at one side of it. Hearing is adequately used in hunting and other applications to an almost unbelievable degree of exactness and precision.
2. "Which does not, in and of itself, prove anything."
That implies that my intention was to prove something. "Proof" implies a totally different context of scientific rigor and exactness that is meant for the laboratory or for logical argumentation. I was discussing my personal subjective experience with the two cables. You can take it with a grain of salt or wipe your tush with it, it makes no difference to me. I do know that you will be missing out on a big improvement in sound, but that is your problem and your loss, not mine.
3. "First you establish that there is in fact an actual audible difference."
That is established first
of itself since I have actually heard the cables. The difference in sound jumps out at you. It's not a borderline difference
maybe I hear it, maybe I don't, I'm not too sure kind of situation
. But of course, I've actually heard the two cables and know of what I speak. Obviously you have never heard them and therefore cannot know what is
actually the case. You're just speaking theoretically and in general. In fact, you might as well be telling me that I don't
really see this computer monitor that's in front of me because our senses are notoriously untrustworthy. My reply to which is
bollocks. You have no idea how absurd your statements are in the face of the shining, self-evident situation. But of course it is not self-evident to you because you have never actually heard the Cardas headphone cable in comparison with the Sennheiser. Since you really have no idea what you are talking about you can only offer theoretical truisms about what
should be the case, not what is in fact
actually the case. You are the one who is putting the cart in front of the horse by putting theory before reality.