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This would be an excellent opportunity for the owner of Virtual Dynamics to step up and demonstrate to potential customers that
he can in fact discern audible differences between his very best cables and a basic computer power cable, the likes of which is powering your home PC at this moment.
I for one would be willing to travel into Calgary to assist with such an audition. I suggest that it would go something like this:
The owner picks (and supplies), the stereo components / cables / favourite music / listening room and time. I or others - attend onsite and set up the listening session as such:
Stereo system – minus the speakers – is set up in an adjacent room with a closable door between the stereo setup room and the room where the loudspeakers are setup. We run a length of (owner’s choice) brand speaker cables from the ‘stereo-setup room', under the door, into the listening room where the owner will sit to audition the cables. After the initial setup is complete, and before the session begins, the stereo is turned on and left playing music to 'warm-up' for an hour.
Owner sits in the auditioning room with his choice of chair / room / speaker layout.
Stereo operator stays in the adjacent room with the stereo system setup and plays selection(s) of music as pre-determined by owner – in whatever order / at whatever volume as previously directed by him. This can be changed at any time by request from owner.
Stereo operator has two cables in hand; one is the
top of the line cable from Virtual Dynamics. The other is a generic computer cable the likes of which comes ‘free’ (so to speak), with every home PC sold in North America over the past decade.
Stereo operator [opens] the door between the two rooms and plugs in the computer power cable to which ever component he is directed to by owner. Stereo operator openly identifies it as being the computer power cable and allows the owner to ‘listen to it’ as long as he wishes. When the owner is satisfied, the stereo operator swaps it with the high-end power cable and again, follows through with the procedure as above. This process of open identification can go on as long as the owner wishes – until he is comfortable.
Following this – the door is closed and the stereo operator is free to swap the cables back and forth between songs. Cables would be swapped according to a simple coin toss; heads for the generic cable / tales for the high-end cable. The stereo operator keeps notes on which cable was in play throughout the session. The owner also notes which cable he discerned was in play for any given song. The owner is allowed to ask for repeats as often and as long as requested. The session is set to last one hour – which should be enough time for the enjoyment of (at least), 10 tracks. If the owner feels he knows which cable is in play at any time before the one hour session has finished, he may open the door and call off the session.
This is really quite elementary as far as evaluations go – and again, I would be happy to travel the nearly 500 Km to Calgary in order to attend such a listening session; it’d be educational as well as allowing me to visit friends while there.
Andrew D.
Canadian Audio Video
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