Ron Olsen;685181 Wrote: > Interesting commentary from a moderator at head-fi.org: > http://www.head-fi.org/t/190566/blind-cable-taste-test-results/495#post_2654121 > > "Does anyone ever wonder why cable manufacturers and merchants don't > ever test their own products? Or maybe they have, but don't tell the > public. > > Think about it. If you had a multimillion dollar company and a vocal > group was calling your product snakeoil, wouldn't you want to do > something about it? The manufacturers absolutely know they have > critics, yet they do nothing. Why is this? Wouldn't any reasonable > person want to put an end to the controversy? > > If you were a cable manufacturer, wouldn't you also want conclusive > tests to show your product to be superior to the competition? Look at > what Intel and AMD do to each other. Why don't Nordost and Cardas, for > example, do the same? If they could, it would be a huge sales advantage > over the other, right? > > And speaking of sales, conclusive testing would mean that the skeptics > would probably end up buying their products. Meaning, of course, higher > sales. They want increased sales, right? > > But they don't do this. All you get are testimonials. Just like quack > medicine. Also, notice how carefully worded their advertising is. It is > always just shy of being on the hook for false and deceptive > advertising. Why is this? Again, if you ran the company, wouldn't you > want to be absolutely certain that your product was best and decisively > address that in advertising?"
That's because they are not selling anything that could ever be unambiguously verifiable. It's like the makers of red wine -- despite the fact that you could scientifically measure many parameters that are supposedly at play when enjoying a glass of red wine, there is no way under the sun that someone could come up with a convincing case, a pile of metrics printed on a sheet of paper that would instantly trump the competition. At the end of the day it's all down to individual taste. Some people just don't care about red wine, period, and they go with their Budweiser. Others prefer wines from this region, that region, this year, that year, this manufacturer, that manufacturer, bottled with this cork, that cork, the expectations are endless and seemingly uncontrollable. So please, tell me, what's wrong with that? Some of us are the same when it comes to cables. I prefer Shunyata, the guy over there prefers Cardas. We're not gonna fight over that. That would be the as stupid as fighting with someone because we prefer Cabernet Sauvignon while that other person prefers Merlot. It is only some sorry frustrated individuals who don't 'get it', and then get theirs nuts tied into a knot over the fact that someone has the audacity to spend $500 on a bottle of wine. What's it to those people? And why don't they, for Christ's sake, go out and get a life? Start a family, join a knitting club, do something with the time the creator has allotted to them on this earth. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93111 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
