Speaker cable blind listening tests

[shokhead]

Only real test is without any devices and only your ears.

[krabapple]

Only real test is without any devices and only your ears.

Wow...no *devices*? Do live musicans play in your listening room?


Seriously, leaving aside your use of 'devices' to play back recorded music (these devices are OK...but a passive switch *isn't*?) you actually have hit on the reason double blind testing is used to substantiate claims of audible difference: it's the only method that ensures you're using *only your earss* to make the call. The typical 'audiophile ' method, on the other hand is readily 'contaminated' by what the listener believes about the devices. It happens even if you present the *same* device to the listener, twice. It's trivially easy to generate reports of 'difference' --even *vast* difference -- simply by leading a listener to believe that the first device is a high-priced boutique brand, and hte second is a mass market brand. Or simply by leading the listener to believe that that two are different devices.

Given how easy it is to 'fool' the ear in a *sighted* comparison, why treat them as 'informative'?