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Well, I won't argue with the power of placebo. And you're right about the effect of placebo in medicine. If I remember properly (and don't quote me here) typical response rates to "placebo treatment" range between 20% to as high as 60% for certain conditions. Amazingly enough, that's not just statistically significant, but also with clinical significance.
I even remember speaking with one individual about this. He understood the science, and if asked would admit that he could not hear a difference in DBT. But when he saw that silver cable hooked up to his speakers, such was the power of the effect that he actually perceived a difference. Pretty neat stuff actually.
So was it worth the money? In his case, and for quite alot of members here, that's likely a good question. I will stand by the science myself, but I'll agree with you that it isn't always a black and white issue.
Good post by the way.
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I was changing things in relatively rapid order, and it went like this:
(1) I replaced my previous LOD / Cable (which I had left on an airplane…..somehow remembered to pick up iPod, P-51 Mustang amp, and TF-10’s) with the SCSCag Viablue LOD…..the difference was not subtle through my TripleFi 10’s…..I recall being impressed with the pace, particularly in the low end (bass and percussion in particular)…..this combination clearly seemed faster than what I had been listening to before.
(2) A week later the JH-13’s arrived and I plugged them in and sat for hours in slack-jawed disbelief of what I was hearing…..MAJOR improvements in all dimensions with crisp highs, and a punchy bottom end and MUCH more precision in the stereo image including far greater depth…..the difference was night and day, like the difference between sound reproduction and musical presence.
(3) Three days later I switched in the TWag cable on the JH-13’s and subjectively noticed that the bottom end seemed to be tighter and even “faster” than before and there seemed to be even more air separating different instruments and voices and greater depth to the sonic image. I confess that I have not put the stock cable back on the JH-13’s for an extended listening set, but I DID critically listen to the same recordings on all three steps.
(4) I have not listened to the JH-13’s without the RSA P-51 Mustang amp with either cable so I cannot comment on any perceived differences with that combination…..and I have not heard the JH-16’s to compare the bottom end response of the two, but in this configuration to these ears the JH-13’s are nothing short of fantastic
As a side note, for years with my home system I was solidly in the “if I can’t measure or explain it there must not be a difference” camp. Then a friend brought over some cables and we re-wired the system…..later in the day, and after the friend had left, SWMBO came home and walked into the listening room and she immediately asked what I had changed…..she saw all the same components in the same positions but immediately heard a difference…..when I told her that we had re-cabled the system her immediate response was “I thought you always said that cables make no audible difference…..what else did you change?”…..I had to turn up the lights and show her the cables to get her to believe me, but she liked the change she was hearing.