Don Pearce wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:35:53 +0200, Forwarder wrote:


Don Pearce wrote:


On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:42:08 +0200, Forwarder wrote:



Don Pearce wrote:




What I do not understand about this "vituperation" is that why is it
that some of you engineer types are not agreeing to do a reverse "test".
Just get yourself some demo exotic cables from a slimy high-end boutique
and plug them in to your systems (provided that you guys have any such
corresponding "system"s as some of us audiophools do). Do they have any
effect? Just listen and tell us. Just do it.


Well, we have - and we hear no difference.

Are you speaking for yourself Mr Pearce, or for ALL who proclaim to
adhere to a given set of thought?


But how do we prove this?

*You* don't need to prove anything Mr Pearce. If you have tried some
exotic interconnects (for instance) and heard that they made no
difference in your system (whatever that may be) and say so then I for
one believe you.

What you heard does not alter what I hear though..


Do bear in mind that there are exotic cables which in fact have boxes
with capacitors and resistors in to deliberately change the frequency
response.

Yes the transparents had a such "box-like" thing in between the ends. It
looked good but boy were they terrible in matters pertaining to sound. I
did have though, a very similar experience with "glim audio" made cables
that did not have any such boxes, etc, in between. During my "auditions"
of cables, amps, cd players, etc (you see, it's a hobby with me, this
high end mumbo jumbo, as my wife tends to call it) and I can comfortably
say that %40 of the time I have found myself actively disliking the
sound of a given equipment. And yes, expensive as they were, some did
not even make any difference! That trans example was just one.

The interconnects I use now are "silverfi" .. they are braided in a
special way, hard work, Turkish made, no boxes or somesuch other stuff
in between, and yes "tight bass", "better transients", "liguid, dreamy
midrange" all that mumbo jumbo slimy audiophool stuff. But I can't help
it, they give me joy, I hear the wonderfull difference they make, and
OK, come on over one lazy sunday and let's do that test Mr Pearce. I can
say with %100 percent certainty that I can hear the difference they make
as compared to the interconnect that came out of the 90 euro yamaha dvd
player I recently bought for the kid's room. I have the same "claim" for
the speaker cables I use..


OK - where do you live?

Finland, Helsinki, Espoo. But I will give away the details of my address
only via private email. The *time* of when the test will take place is
also proivate info. The results are, of course, for everyone to see.


When you say 100% certainty, do you mean we can forget the 16 out of
20 and go for a straight 20 out of 20?

I thought it was 15? No, I'll keep that err margin accounting for the
stress induced by actually performing such a test.

If so, then I will happily
forego the second set of trials if you succeed.

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com