Bob Latham wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

If you are so thick as to not understand the simple laws on apostrophe
use it puts the rest of your argument into question.

That to me is a quite ridiculous argument.

You are saying that someone who is ignorant in one area of life even in
knowledge considered basic and elementary by the majority means he cannot
be the world's best expert in another. I'm quite sure most people (if not
everyone) have some weak areas for all sorts of reasons *least* of all
because they are thick.

It's not an encouraging sign though.


And adequately proved by your later statement that 'cables do sound
different'.

That is your opinion, you may be right. What worries me about this is that
some of you guys are so convinced that your knowledge of science is so
good that you *know* they cannot sound different so you never really tried
it.

How about those who are so confident of their ears that they choose to ignore
the science ? I'm a lot more concerned about them. And they make a lot of
noise too.

Aside from incompetently designed amplifiers that oscillated with low
inductance cables (was it Naim ?) can we agree that cables DO NOT affect
......

1. Distortion.
2. Signal to noise ratio or dynamic range

And that alleged improvements in such aspects as 'speed', 'pace', 'depth',
'soundstaging', 'granularity', and the like are imaginary poppycock ?

That leaves their effect on frequency response. As far as this is concerned it
would be easy to put scientific limits on it. Could you hear a 1dB difference
at some frequency ? Possibly ? 0.1dB ? Pretty damn unlikely I'd say.

Graham