Unfortunately it can feel that way to newcomers in this forum who don't know or don't understand the reasons, the background and the history.
Very short the main points:
-We know for a fact that uncontrolled subjective listening is unreliable because human hearing perception is actually done by the brain not just using pure sound stimuli but also influenced by just about anything going on in the brain, input from other senses like what you see, what you think, what you know, what you expect, how you feel, etc. etc. It can even make you hear night and day differences where there is no audible difference.
-We know that because of the previous point - and often in combination with misleading or factual incorrect marketing - numerous factual incorrect convictions are widely accepted as "facts" in the audiophile community.
So it should be clear that believing someone on his word that he heared this or that is not the way to gain reliable knowledge. And the problem is not so much to believe what he heared, but we don't know what of what he heared is due to audible sound and what is due to something else.
Because your ears are better than the fundamental instruments used to measure audio whether it be in electrical signals or as disturbances of the fluid we call air. I trust an analyzer more than my ears when evaluating audio and use my ears to listen to the result, but not to make any kind of decision.
As they said previously, you need evidence to support your argument over here.
Because your ears are better than the fundamental instruments used to measure audio whether it be in electrical signals or as disturbances of the fluid we call air. I trust an analyzer more than my ears when evaluating audio and use my ears to listen to the result, but not to make any kind of decision.
As they said previously, you need evidence to support your argument over here.
Even Crinacle, the king of IEM measurements asserts that cables make a difference to sound. I'll take his experience listening to over 833 IEMs in different configurations over an anonymous person post on a message board.
So yeah, everything in that 2019 "April Fool's" cable post is more or less false or accurately reflects the opposite of @crinacle's feelings on the matter.
Since you'll take @crinacle's experience on the matter, the conclusion is simple: cables don't make a difference*. I tagged the fellow here, so if I'm dead wrong, the king of in-ear fidelity can chime in and eviscerate me in a semi-public setting.
And I’ll take empirical data rather than experiences and appeals to authority. Cables just don’t make any difference within the threshold of hearing. Is that really that hard to understand when there’s graphs showing the “differences” and how minimal they are, if they even exist.
Well, that's your opinion. I love having a soft, non microphonic cable with quality connectors and a nice weave and split. It's a great statement to a beautiful headphone I own and I enjoy very much.
Dude your wallet is the the proof. You spend the money and like and keep the purchase, good purchase. You don't like the purchase and return the gear, bad purchase. Do it again till you get it right. If you need scientific proof if something works, this may not be the hobby for you. You are over your head.
If you want fidelity to the source, you need to have proof (measurement data or other type of empirical data) that the equipment you are using is faithful to the source. Ears are not enough to determine this.
If you want fidelity to the source, you need to have proof (measurement data or other type of empirical data) that the equipment you are using is faithful to the source. Ears are not enough to determine this.
For you............. You don't speak for everyone. If you truly believe that create a mini meet and show people with their gear that cables don't make a difference. Don't just talk about it, Do it, show the world you are right! Show me that I'm wrong please. I will bring my cables..... What do I know? only done it several times at the meets in Seattle
Logically, the burden of proof is on you to show us that we are wrong since you are the one making the positive claim that cables are audibly different. I’m in the null hypothesis position, it is the alternative that must be proven.
Dude your wallet is the the proof. You spend the money and like and keep the purchase, good purchase. You don't like the purchase and return the gear, bad purchase. Do it again till you get it right. If you need scientific proof if something works, this may not be the hobby for you. You are over your head.
Einstein’s Unified Theory was never proven. Only Jr. Scientists have to prove everything therefore it doesn’t exist. Real Scientists realize that there are millions of things which can’t prove but witness their existence.
Logically, the burden of proof is on you to show us that we are wrong since you are the one making the positive claim that cables are audibly different. I’m in the null hypothesis position, it is the alternative that must be proven.
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