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Headphoneus Supremus
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classic cheap rhetorical trick for making points in arguments with people who aren't aware of the whole "black bag rhetoric" game – keep it up and earn the “Troll” label
"No difference between cables" doesn't include poorly constructed cable not meeting some minimum objectively measurable technical performance level and the exclusion of objectively demonstrably inferior cables doesn't weaken the true “cable skeptic” position
What I am highly skeptical of is non-blind subjective evaluations saying there are "night and day" audible differences between cables of sufficient build quality to achieve equivalent technically measurable characteristics, which in addition to lumped RLC should include several "transfer impedance" measures of shielding effectiveness
It is also possible for some tweak cables to have basic technical parameters that could cause audible differences in some audio applications – I would call them “passive equalizers” and again I would exclude them from the basic cable skeptic position that properly applied technically competent cables do not appear to cause audible differences
Originally Posted by MatsudaMan /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yes, exactly. However, they will tell you that they buy the 30 dollar one for "build quality"...lol. Some will even say that there is a difference between the stock and Blue Jeans cable but no difference between Blue Jeans and an expensive one....very convenient argument for those who can't afford or can't hear the difference between interconnects. |
classic cheap rhetorical trick for making points in arguments with people who aren't aware of the whole "black bag rhetoric" game – keep it up and earn the “Troll” label
"No difference between cables" doesn't include poorly constructed cable not meeting some minimum objectively measurable technical performance level and the exclusion of objectively demonstrably inferior cables doesn't weaken the true “cable skeptic” position
What I am highly skeptical of is non-blind subjective evaluations saying there are "night and day" audible differences between cables of sufficient build quality to achieve equivalent technically measurable characteristics, which in addition to lumped RLC should include several "transfer impedance" measures of shielding effectiveness
It is also possible for some tweak cables to have basic technical parameters that could cause audible differences in some audio applications – I would call them “passive equalizers” and again I would exclude them from the basic cable skeptic position that properly applied technically competent cables do not appear to cause audible differences