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Further, no one has ever been able to demonstrate a benefit. Not even the manufacturers offer anything to back their claims.
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It's rather amazing, isn't it?
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Originally Posted by FallenAngel
Yeah, it's really hard to "back up" any claims. There are tons of different properties to the wire used, capacitance, resistance, impedance, dielectric properties of coating/sleeve. Of course it's basically impossible to say that any of these actually "sound" different because how something "sounds" is a subjective "measurement".
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Double-blind tests that can show ANY sort of measurable consistency would be a good start.
it amazes me to see the level to which people will come up with excuses to ignore the results of double-blind tests. Pure and overwhelming denial.
"If the test doesn't yield what I
believe to be true, the test must be flawed!"
I'm really glad that, for the most part, science doesn't work like that.
I've been in the situation myself, where something that appeared totally and overwhelmingly true to me was called into question. . . and I've argued bitterly about what I know my experiences to have been . . . and when the cold hard facts were laid out, I was completely and undeniably wrong.
Made me realize how strong (and incorrect) anecdotal evidence and desire can be.
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Originally Posted by FallenAngel
I guess there really isn't any way around this; numbers don't prove anything "sounds differently" and claiming that something does actually "sound different" can't be proven with numbers. Stalemate.
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No, it's not a stalemate. The burden of proof is on the one making the claims that their product has a tangible effect.
I can claim that Santa Claus exists and you can NOT prove me wrong, you simply can't. That doesn't make my assertion somehow valid.