Look, there is really no need for us to engage in pointless arguments. The point of this thread is do you believe that esotic speaker cables make a difference? Each of us has an opinion, and we might, by future experiences become convinced that it is right or wrong. That's how we LEARN, hopefully from our births to our deaths.
My current opinion is that esoteric speaker cables don't make a difference. I have learned this opinion over the years by not hearing a difference which I could attribute to the speaker cables. Of course, those on the other side might say I've never listened on a system which has enough resolution; maybe this is true and I'll learn so in the future. As to "trusting my ears", probably the largest influence on trusting my senses has been flight training, where it is absolutely shown that one should approach what their senses are telling them with a high degree of scepticism. Most likely RFK Jr. died because he instictively trusted his senses, which led him to crash his plane into the ocean. So I have a LOT of learning which has demonstrated to me that the brain "fills in" the details the best it can, but often completely contrary to reality. It would seem that in an audio comparison where the difference is vanishingly small, as I would expect it to be when comparing speaker cables, one's brain might "fill in" a difference one was expecting to hear. Which is the purpose of blind testing, to remove the "expectation". As an engineer, I'd certainly never trust my ears over a proper meter for determining frequency response. A good meter has many times the amplitude resolution of my ears. I'd never trust my estimate of an object's weight by lifting it over a sensitive scale. I do believe that, with audio, one must measure AND listen for the best results. Our ears DO understand measurements, even if the measurements are not intellectually understood, because the measurements are just a MORE PRECISE way of quantifying a small aspect of something to which one's ears are somewhat sensitive. Maybe in the future I'll learn something which changes my opinion. -- Timothy Stockman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy Stockman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8867 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44124 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
