Quote Originally Posted by jneutron View Post
Actually, it's not the test people's fault. It's the designers of the equipment.
Equipment? A VOM? Capacitance meter? What does Fluke have to do with understanding the interaction of the capacitance of an interconnect to the ouput stage of a SACD player?

The funniest (actually saddest) assertions are those based upon implementing switch boxes for comparison - which totally alter the results! They worry about contact resistance and don't have a clue about measurable interactions. Frank Van Alstine is a pretty pragmatic guy who doesn't make utlra exotic gear but understands the concept quite well:

Duh

Feanor linked to one of Rod Elliott's pages about cabling that exhibited profound ignorance. Basically, he said you could compare cable audibility by splitting the output of a source using a Y-adapter into different inputs. Using my trusty capacitance meter, I find that doing so combines the capacitance of both cables at either end! Guess what? There's no difference! You just have to laugh at guys like this who have so little understanding of system interaction - much less introducing uncontrolled variables into their "scientific test".