arnyk
Repeatedly defended arguments with personal attacks.
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I have never believed that cables make a difference as i have never heard a difference in any cable... until now. I was in a bind and needed a cable, like, NOW, so walked over to BestBuy and bought their house brand cheap interconnect. Its effect was not subtle. So much bass was missing that i thought something was wrong with my amp. It was incredible. How can they sell this stuff to people? Do they engineer it like this on purpose or just not care?
It is likely that the perception of a loss of bass was due to the well-known flaws in the alleged listening test. It was no doubt a casual sighted audiophile evaluation that fails to address a number of well-known failings of human perception that affect all of us:
(1) Audiophile Sighted Casual Evaluations are not useful evidence because they are not tests. That is, they do not involve comparison to a fixed, reliable standard.
(2) Audiophile Sighted Casual Evaluations are not useful evidence because they involve excessively long switchover times, which makes them highly susceptible to false negatives because they desensitize the listeners.
(3) Audiophile Sighted Casual Evaluations are not useful evidence because the do not involve proper level matching, which makes them highly susceptible to false positives because people report the level mismatches as sonic differences.
(4) Audiophile Sighted Casual Evaluations are not useful evidence because they do not involve listening to the identical same piece of music or drama within a few milliseconds, creating false positives because people report the mismatched music as sonic differences in the equipment.
(5) Audiophile Sighted Casual Evaluations are not useful evidence because they constantly reveal the true identity of the UUTs to the listener, creating false positives because people report their prejudices and preconceived notions as sonic properties of the equipment
So, based on your analysis of your own listening evaluations, which critical failings were the most likely to cause the improbable outcome that you have posted?