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Use them all. It won't make you right. I responded to 'isolate how it happens' with the gravity comment. If you can tell me same as opposed to measuring it's artifacts, I'm good. Changing context is poor play. I'm assume you actually read the post I responded to. One test does not preclude others that may show a difference. The it didn't happen here so it never happens isn't a strong enough position to dispell every instance. I understand a lot. I'm just not close minded enough to think that I know everything nor am willing to be bullied into submission with demands of a type of proof that is unavailable. I don't care who believes what but I also don't care for someone telling another what he is or is not hearing.
I think Spyro's example a good one and I've mentioned this to Cliff in a privately. I think copper is great and that some of what is going on with the twag and some others that many are hearing is more about tonal matching than absolutes of better or worse. May partially depend on the original cable. Generally find plated wire too bright. I'm not into the snake oil at all. I just happen to notice. As for LODs, I'd never bother going overboard there. Seems way over the top considering the source. I'm quite happy with my L9.
For the vast majority of applications it does not matter that the mechanism behind gravity has not been fully explained because outside of a quantum scale we can measure and predict it so accurately. The same is true of magic cables. You aren't just suggesting some unknown property of electric circuits, you're suggesting an unknown property of electric circuits that has large interactions with known properties of electric circuits and we can sure measure those known properties very, very precisely so even if we didn't know
why there was a difference we should still be able to measure it. Even if it wasn't measurable then it should be audible in blind testing. If its neither measurable or audible under controlled conditions then what business does anyone have saying the difference exists outside of their mind when we're trudging through such a subjective field?
Would you not tell someone that no, they most likely weren't actually abducted by aliens just to spare their feelings? Is that more important than the truth?
Also, did you miss the part where I said that
nothing in the real world can ever be proven the way you're asking for, the way math is? Obviously any number of test with identical results will never prove anything in that manner because the next one
could always be different. Unfortunately that's the best we'll ever have from within the reference frame of this reality. The reason you should believe something is because it has positive evidence in favor of it, not because it hasn't been absolutely disproven. Nothing in our reality can be absolutely proven or disproven so if you hold that standard of evidence consistently you'd have to believe anything and if you don't hold it consistently then you are engaged in special pleading. There is massive amounts of positive evidence in favor of the idea that boutique cables do nothing to improve sound quality and nothing but anecdotes and pseudoscience in favor of the idea that they do improve SQ. All that evidence could turn out to be flawed and mistaken and cables could actually make a difference but until that evidence in favor of cables comes along there is no good reason to believe those cables do anything useful besides look pretty.
The corollary of this is that cable believers still have to prove their case on their own with positive evidence in favor of their proposition. Trying to poke holes in real science with vague criticisms of methodology or appeals to "science doesn't know everything" (no $#!%, nobody knows everything!) doesn't prove their own case. Its still not worth believing until they come up with positive evidence of their own.
You also seem, to imply that I'm out to rain on people's parades. I'm not. Somebody started a thread and asked a question. I gave my opinion and gave the reasons I hold it. I don't troll the cable sub-forum and tell people they're wrong. I'd actually like it to to be true that cables could improve SQ. I'd like to be able to make my headphones sound better with something as simple as a recable and making a few ICs from premium materials. The only problem is I don't see any evidence to indicate that its true.
Finally, if you're wondering why I would prefer to just post humorous pictures which summarize what you've said, this is why. One person who doesn't know or care what they're talking about can in several minutes write something which takes several hours to debunk. I've already spent more than 20 minutes writing, proofing, and revising this one post and its still not nearly a full refutation of everything you've said. Its way easier to make crap up than to check your facts and make a decent argument.