Don Pearce wrote:

Glenn, you have never been one to let anything as mundane as a fact
get in the way of your beliefs. Nice line in sanctimonious piety, by
the way.

More projecting I see...

But since you're bringing facts into this, how about this:

Fact - many people (myself included) can and do hear differences in
cable sound.

Fact - other people can't. That doesn't mean those differences aren't
real. It just means that some people can't hear them.

A case in point being my ex-girlfriend. She honestly could not tell the
difference between a £99 midi system and 5 grand's worth of separates.
Other than "your system goes louder".

Yes, that's correct, the only difference she could hear between her £99
midi system and my Arcam setup was that mine "goes louder".

Now on the rare occasions I heard her low-fi all I could hear was
speaker cabinet resonance, harmonic distortion and a complete lack of
dynamics. But she couldn't hear the difference.

Those differences were there all right. She just couldn't hear them.

And until people like you accept that, these pointless slanging matches
will continue. Let me give you a quick lesson:

Correct: "I've never heard a difference between speaker cables."

Incorrect: "Speaker cables make no difference to the sound."

The important thing to remember is that not observing an effect does not
in this case disprove, but observing the effect proves. The only time a
lack of observing an effect will disprove is if the results are 100%
consistent - by which I mean independent and repeatable. Which clearly
they aren't, as so many people can hear these differences.

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