Shock result - interconnects sound the same!

As an interconnect test I soldered up a short adapter (4cm) with a male phono,
two female phonos and a jack plug.
This allowed me to take a mono source and feed it directly to the left channel
of a sound card, while also sending it through the interconnect under test to
the right channel of the sound card.

The source was Donna Summer's 'Bad Reputation', which has a lot of treble.
I would have used Abba's 'The Day Before You Came' but I get a bit emotional
listening to that which might spoil the results.

Using Goldwave and comparing the source directly with the source passed through
the oldest, cheapest interconnect in my junkbox revealed that the difference
peaked at -57.9dB. After taking the difference and maximising it, it sounded
like the original, with more noise and a grainy effect to the treble.

If anyone can hear anything at 58dB below the music level he must have
better ears than me.

I haven't yet calibrated the sound card, i.e. balanced the two channels
but these preliminary results suggest that the squirrel is nuts.

--
Eiron

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent - Tom Stoppard.