nick_charles
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This paper concludes that cable differences are audible, but that listeners had no clear preference. It is an unusual study on a number of levels. They use a cartridge feed not a line level signal so the signal carried by the cable is a few mV rather than 2V. They also use 7M of one cable (the radio shack) and 1M of the other (the exotic cable) , nevertheless a statistically significant result was achieved.
Originally Posted by royalcrown /img/forum/go_quote.gif While not in the AES, the Computer Music Journal released a study done at MIT and published in 1988 that blind tested cables. The author's commentary is kind of absurd but the methodology is sound. You might have read it before: JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie (requires journal access) |
This paper concludes that cable differences are audible, but that listeners had no clear preference. It is an unusual study on a number of levels. They use a cartridge feed not a line level signal so the signal carried by the cable is a few mV rather than 2V. They also use 7M of one cable (the radio shack) and 1M of the other (the exotic cable) , nevertheless a statistically significant result was achieved.