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Old March 31st 06, 05:52 AM posted to uk.rec.humour,uk.rec.models.rail,uk.rec.audio,uk.media.tv.sf.drwho
Roderick Stewart
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In article , Glenn Richards wrote:
if you believe in him you will be telling us you can hear speaker
cables differences lol


Actually, a lot of agnostics and atheists can hear speaker cable
differences. There's no hocus-pocus involved, just some science that the
sceptics disregard.


It *would* be science if it was the result of experiments or observations
conducted and documented according to the scientific method. Simple
declarations of somebody's opinions, or of what they claim to be able to
hear, don't count, unless there is some unbiassed and verifiable evidence
in support of them.

So, you can send a sine wave down a bit of cable and it'll come out the
other end as exactly the same sine wave. Guess what? Music isn't a sine
wave.


Quite so, but it can be analysed as lots of sine waves superimposed, and
they will have various amplitudes and phase angles relative to each other.
And it is possible to devise test signals and measurement methods that will
show when any of these properties would be significantly altered within any
range of frequencies and amplitudes in which we may be interested. And that
*is* science.

Rod.