Would you mind doing a blind test on this? The test parameters should be as follows:
- Get a friend to swap out the cables for you, and blindfold yourself.
- Have said friend hold the cables away from your body so you can't tell the difference by how they feel.
- Now, get your friend to flip a coin a few times, and arbitrarily decide which cable corresponds to which face of the coin.
- Get him to mark them down on a sheet of paper, then proceed to swap the cables for you and play the same test track at the same volume for the same amount of time.
- When you finish listening to it, write either a "X" or an "O" depending on whichever you feel it is, or a "--" if you can't tell, onto a sticky note then peel it away for the next one, and place it on top of the last one.
- Whether it's an X or an O should be decided by a coin toss by you before the test begins.
Seems scientific enough for me. Though if you don't want to go to this much trouble, that's fine too.
But blind testing is the only way to really prove it to others on the board, one way or another - some people, me included, simply don't believe it when people say that they hear a difference when I have not heard such a difference myself.
If you do decide to do this though, you should probably put it in the sound science board.
