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SteveB sbrads@nildramDOTcoDOTuk wrote:
Come off it, I can't see there being any problem with me being able to
hear differences, but you would just say there's no difference.
Perhaps people's hearing is different in ways we can't describe, it
would be unprovable, which is why there's no way of resolving debates
about the existence or not of 'cable sound'.

It's quite simple. You have to tell the difference - reliably - between
cables purely by ear without knowing, by sight, which cable is actually
connected and in use. Called double blind testing. To remove the 'I've
just paid a hundred quid for this cable and the adverts say it's miles
better' syndrom.

As an electronics engineer mainly working on switch mode power supplies
running between frequencies of 10kHz and 2 MHz, I can see scope
waveforms or spectrum analysis change dramatically with cable lengths
of 2 inches or copper track changes of a few mm, so 4 metres of audio
cable has a lot of potential with all that nasty music stuff flying
around but music's 'jumbled mess' just doesn't lend itself to easy
analytical observation, that's what our ears are for.

A few mm at 10Khz? I find that hard to believe.

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