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Headphoneus Supremus
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Complaining isn't going to change the laws of physics.
Has it changed anything for yourself for that matter.
Complaining isn't going to change the laws of physics.
Complaining isn't going to change the laws of physics.
Does trying to reduce the odds of being ripped off necessarily reduce enjoyment in this hobby? Don't think so.
IMO posts that attack anti-cablers for 'not enjoying' or 'not appreciating' the music are just accusations to avoid answering the real issues.
First, the human ear can do no such thing. It's not the ear that hears but rather our brains that hear. All the ears do is provide input.
Second, since all we get out of our audio systems is ultimately nothing more than changes in voltage and current over time, and we can measure that to levels well below the thresholds of what humans can hear, then any change which would alter the sound stage or the texture of a muted trumpet's reed variation can also be measured.
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I think you misunderstood. None of what I wrote has anything to do with whether or not me, you or anyone is correct about the influence of cables and whether or not they have an audible influence on sound.
I started with 'even if cables were found to make a difference'. I'm in effect putting that issue aside and putting forward that perceptual biases affect all our choices and subjective appreciation of whatever gear we evaluate. This is why I don't trust reviews and do my own testing if I'm interested in a particular piece of gear. I too often disagree with a LOT of the testimonies I read. We each have our own experiences, tainted by our psychoacoustics and tastes. The study that I sited is just an example. We have three speaker systems, all different and all that sound different to all present. However, there remained marked differences in relative appreciation of each system when they were tested sited or when they were tested while blinded.
BTW, xnor, I can't make you out. You seem to be itching for a fight when others, from both sides, are at least trying to stay constructive. I don't see the point.
sorry it's taken so long to respond. My point was that you are making a positive assertion about perceptual biases, which I think can be argued against. If by perceptual biases you mean something like sonic preferences, then they can alter people's choices- a person who likes brighter sound preferring a brighter speaker. However, if we are debating over which speaker is brighter, I am less sure how perceptual biases can enter into the picture.
Hope that helps.....
The Super SATA cables I recently tested proved to be real shockers. Every logical thought was telling me that the wires that transmit the raw digital data between a hard disk and the motherboard in a NAS simply could not influence the sound that emerged from the player – after the music has already subsequently passed through metres of CAT5.
But they do.
I listened to the cables in my NAS feeding my Naim HDX/DAC/XPS and clearly identified easily perceptible improvements through my highly revealing active Naim DBL system. Quite what it is that wrought these improvements I do not know. My only guess is that the Super SATAs reject interference significantly better than the standard cables and in so doing lower the noise floor revealing greater low-level musical detail and presentational improvements in the soundstage and the ‘air’ around instruments.
The most marked and worthwhile difference, I felt, was in the increased naturalness in both the sound of instruments and voices, which seemed more organic, human and less ‘electronic’, and in the music’s rhythmical progression, which was also more natural and had the realistic ebb and flow that musicians exhibit when playing live. In short, recordings sounded more like musical performances then recordings.
As you can see the cables do not look anything special even though they are far more robust than the standard issue flat cables, and they are are irradiated, I am told, to vapourise any moisture that has found its way into the molecular structure of the conductors.
The photo here shows the original, Generation 1 cable but there is now a more advanced, wider bandwidth Generation 2 version that is soon going to be available from the same American manufacturer. They will, of course, be more expensive than ‘ordinary’ SATA cables – the red and grey insulated flat cables that come free with hard disks or sell for around £2.99. But their superior performance easily justifies the extra expense.
When I have a definite price on the new cables and the URL from which they will be able to be purchased, I will post the information here. I cannot wait: I only have one of the generation 1 cables and wanted a dozen more for other hard disks and SATA peripherals. Now there is a supposedly ‘better’ version I cannot wait to evaluate it and if it is, as I am told, substantially superior, get my order in for a dozen of those.
I have disabled Comments on this post so that respectable visitors do not have to read the remarks made by a small number of extremely ignorant, rude, malicious and disingenuous individuals who cannot tolerate people expressing opinions that do not concur with their own.