What you like and your personal feelings have nothing to do with the fidelity of sound reproduction. You’re conflating two completely separate things. Fidelity is objective… either it’s accurate or it’s degraded. What you like or how you feel can have more to do with what you had for lunch than...

Measurable, yes. Audible, no. Human ears have definite limits. No human can hear much beyond 20kHz, and no human can hear sound -70dB below peak level. Audiophiles look at numbers on a page and assume that better numbers are always better. But that isn’t the case. There are things humans just...

The purpose of knowledge isn’t to argue what your subjective senses perceive. It’s to understand how it all works, so you can tell the difference between perception and reality. Some of what we perceive is real and can be quantified and explained. That’s the part involved with fidelity and...

“I’m not interested in knowing.” isn’t a comment that inspires much confidence that the speaker knows what he’s talking about. It’s fine for the rest of head fi, but it won’t fly in sound science. It amazes me that people will invest so much time and money in a hobby and have no basic...

It is simple to create a wire that conducts with perfect audible transparency. Amazon and Monoprice are able to do that with a few dollars worth of copper, insulation and plugs. A wire cannot conduct better than another wire designed for the same purpose. It can only conduct worse. It either...

That shouldn't be too difficult. This is our tag team troll pair again. Same argument from ignorance and "you aren't scientific enough" digressing into generalized sidetracks on the scientific method instead of the facts at hand. If it isn't the same pair, they're cloning them in a secret lab...

Human hearing has been studied for even longer than wires! There are studies that establish the JDD (just detectable difference) of various parameters of sound. The difference between two properly designed and manufactured cables is more than an order of magnitude below the threshold of...

I think discussing semantics isn't a useful application of my time. I'll stick to the point thankyouverymuch... There is no way anyone with human ears could tell the difference between two properly manufactured and designed headphone cables. In case you weren't paying attention, I already...

There's over a century of scientific testing to back up what I said. And scores of technological advancements, from telegraph to telephone to moon rockets depend on it being true. Feel free to make semantic noodles to what I said, but that doesn't change the fact that the things being claimed...

Voices and drums would make absolutely no difference. A null test would be more definitive.

That's the kind of comment all the trolls that come in here to poke us with a stick make. The next comment they make is that we aren't scientific enough. This is a science forum. There is no scientific reason to believe that two properly manufactured and designed cables will sound different...

Just so you know where you went South on this... Both of these things can't be true. Either one is wrong, or the other one is. You were doing fine up until this point. But you brushed aside the three other options... that one of the cables was not performing to spec because of an impedance...

You didn’t say it was a game. You said it was a test… a test that somehow convinced you of something that runs counter to the facts that 100 years of actual scientific testing have proven time and time again. We pointed that out and suggested that something was wrong with your test because it...

I'm guessing it's made up. The average six year old is probably more honest and truthful than the average audiophool.

Did you make up this test with your daughter? Because it sure sounds like you were convinced there was an audible difference from the get go. You’re talking a blue streak about your expertise with pretentious phrasing and puffery and all of it seems designed to prove you’re right. People who...

Your daughter is probably playing a little magic trick on you. I’m sure she’s figured out a way to cleverly cheat your informal and loosely applied controls. If she was able to do that with a proper test, there would be scientists lining up to study her, not the cables. This stuff has been...

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/headphone-amp-impedance-questions-find-the-answers-here.607282/

In order to detect a difference between two similar sounds, the switch has to be fast. Even a delay of a couple of seconds is too much with very similar sounds. Auditory memory is short at any age. If you were going to another room, you’d be taking as much as a minute or two. To score perfect...

The shielding on those cables are very different. Did you encase the cables inside something to prevent clues from microphonics? If not, I'd suggest that.

Past blind listening tests would indicate you're correct on both of those assumptions.

Well, hopefully you aren't too lazy to read the reports on other people's ABX tests in the first post in this thread! But I agree, if there is absolutely no scientific reason to believe that there should be an audible difference, and you can't detect any problem yourself, it's probably a waste...

I thought the Sweet was dumb when I was a kid, but now I really like them. Solid hooks, and their TV appearances are hilarious. I like glam that doesn't take itself oh so seriously. "Are you ready, Steve?" They put out a DVD box set that was fascinating. By the end they were playing amusement...

“Love is like oxy-gen. You get to much, you get too high. Not enough and you’re gonna die…”

Go listen to Street Fighting Man. It’s pretty in your face. Compressed isn’t automatically bad. Some music is better compressed.

Loud and compressed is part of the Stones’ signature sound since the 60s.