Quote Originally Posted by skeptic
"If I were to share with you my experiences with the sound of different cables, I am, in effect, making a claim."

If you claimed that your car got 70 miles to the gallon and accelerated from zero to sixty miles an hour in 5.5 seconds we could see what the manufacturer claimed and what any one of several independent testers had found and published. But even if we hadn't, we could point out that on the face of it this would seem impossible since the engine came out of a lawn tractor and the body was salvage of a Sherman tank. If we asked you how you know and you told us, well I floored it and by the time it felt like I was going sixty miles an hour I hadn't counted to six yet and it seemed like I went 70 miles before my one gallon gas tank ran dry, we could all have a good laugh. To some of us, that's the situation we have with these wire claims.

"I agree that some posters are less civil than others, either overall or on occasion. But I see that from both sides. Passion runs high and therefore so do tempers.'

It seems crazy to get all worked up over something as ludicrous as a Sherman tank with a lawnmower engine and just as crazy to get worked up over these wires, but if people want to continue to come here and make their preposterous claims without any meaningful substantiation, they will get zinged and if that riles them up, well they've got a problem much worse than audio equipment.
If a claim is patently preposterous (as in your Sherman tank analogy), I don't understand why you feel it is necessary to point out the obvious. Can't others see this without help from you? Nor do I understand why you have a need to label claims of subjective experiences as presposterous just because they haven't been tested in a controlled experiment. Are you trying to protect people from themselves?