I have copied the following excerpt from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science

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Empiricism

A central concept in the philosophy of science is empiricism, or dependence on evidence. Empiricism is the view that knowledge derives from experience of the world. In this sense, scientific statements are subject to and derived from our experiences or observations. Scientific theories are developed and tested through experiments and observations, via empirical methods. Once reproduced widely enough this information counts as evidence, upon which the scientific community bases its explanations of how things work.

Observations involve perception, and so are themselves cognitive acts. That is, observations are themselves embedded in our understanding of the way in which the world works; as this understanding changes, the observations themselves may apparently change.

Scientists attempt to use induction, deduction and quasi-empirical methods, and invoke key conceptual metaphors to work observations into a coherent, self-consistent structure.

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This is one example of many of how science actually works in explaining our world around us. You'll notice that experimentation (that is, proper scientific expermentation) is essential to understanding observations. And also, this needs to be widely reproduced before it counts as evidence.

So while people are free to observe and expermiment with cables in their homes, there is currently nothing that explains those observations nor are there any proper experiements widely reproduced which can confirm actual sonic differences in cables.

People who are happy with their observations and experience are not a problem, that's a personal state of mind. But to use those observations to try to build a scientific case for the actual existance of cable sonics will be met with skepticism by objective observers who understand the scientific process.

In conclusion, the arguement regarding cable sonics is really quite fruitless at this point. If cable sonics are indeed a fallacy, then objectivists are interested in how people can have observations to the contrary (and many theories have be put forward to try to explain this). And if cable sonics are a reality, then objectivists would like scientific method to be applied to show that it is indeed fact and why it is true.

And ironically, if cable sonics are indeed true, and testing shows why cables do sound different then we can work to make even better cables based on real science.