"Glenn Richards" wrote in
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But it's not all snake oil. Once you've filtered the
genuine stuff from snake oil, you're left with some
pretty good products. It's the filtering that takes the effort.

Bi wiring is snake oil. Fancy cables are snake oil.

Now, let's turn the psychological argument back on
itself. You don't believe there's a difference between
the way different cables sound, so you won't hear one
even if it's there.

That's your story, which is phrased in such a way as to put you in the
presumptious position of speaking for me.

Thank you, I'll tell my own story, OK?

Long before I did any analysis of bi-wiring, and fancy speaker wires I did
some proper listening tests. The results were null. I did some
measurements, I found measureable differences. However, differences were way
to small for anybody to reliably detect by just listening. I did some
analysis and found that the theoretical differences were similar to what I
measured.

I also know from a great deal of other experience that improper listening
tests are very likely to produce false positives. There are plenty of
instances where people were able to characterize the difference between A &
A when they thought they were comparing A and B. Their impressions of the
non-existent differences read like your typical true-believer's newgroup
posts and or your typical true-believer's magazine review. No surprise,
right?

As I've said before, it's like Creationist
fundamentalists who would still refuse to accept evolution even if God
himself
appeared before them and told them it was true. [1]

That's pretty much my experience with your typical golden-eared audiophile
true believer in snake oil products like bi-wire, bi-wire without proper
active crossovers, and fancy cables.


Keep reading that "Scott's Guide". You might learn
something.

I know as much as I need to know about audio at this
point in time.

Yeah, enough to give us guys who are older and wiser a good laugh.

That doesn't mean I'm not willing to learn
more, in fact I'm a firm believer that there are some
things you can never learn too much about.

You're looking at one and turning the other way.

And if time constraints allow, or work were to demand it, I'd be
more than happy to brush up on underlying technology.

Until then, keep your skeptics hat where you can find it.