Glenn Richards wrote:

Eiron wrote:

On a second look at the results, the signal through the crappy cable was
down by 0.1% or 0.01dB.


So there is a difference then.

and the voice barely distinguishable.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"barely", meaning "there was a difference, but only a very tiny one".

Which still shows that a crappy 1 metre interconnect makes no audible
difference.


You just contradicted yourself there. Either there was a difference or
there wasn't. You've said there was. There was a 0.01dB loss in the
crappy cable - that's still a loss.

The human ear is far more sensitive than most test equipment. If you can
measure it, you can certainly hear it.

Read what I wrote, not what you would like to hear.

Now, it is not true that "If you can measure it, you can certainly hear it"
but the opposite is the case: If there is a difference to be heard,
you can certainly measure it.

If you can't accept that, there is no hope for you.
If you can, then we can devise some test that will measure those differences.

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Eiron

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent - Tom Stoppard.