Quote Originally Posted by RobotCzar
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volum...s-12-2004.html

I don't read or post here much anymore (a grew weary of the high end terriers who love to hear themselves talk and the biased moderators), so I don't know if anyone has mentioned the test in the link above.
Actually, I posted a link to the in the cable forum when first came out. A few comments went back and forth, and the discussion got locked down.

I think in audio, there are obvious improvements, subtle improvements, and psychosomatic improvements. The problem is that a lot of the subjectivists lump any and all improvements into the same grouping, regardless of magnitude or whether their conclusions will be consistent under any kind of bias control (we're not even talking about DBT).

So, basically we got people running around these forums talking about how cables are just as important as room acoustics, or how things like transports or racks or digital interconnects produce "night and day" improvements. I wonder how many of them have actually participated in a blind test, or even done something as simple as level matching with a SPL meter during sighted listenings.

And of course, we got others who like to deride the validity of measurements, and if the measures that can be verfied and replicated don't fit their preferences, then we get into all the murky terminology that people make up -- stuff like "musical" or "airy" or "dynamic" etc.

I think the arguments about power cords are probably the most nonsensical ones out of all of them.