[Harry Lavo]

"Audio Empire" wrote in message
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On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 07:33:10 -0800, C. Leeds wrote
(in article ):

On 12/3/2010 10:17 AM, August Karlstrom wrote:

I can admit having been duped, although I have not spent this kind of
money on speaker wire. After reading about blind testing of speaker wire
in this group I replaced my Kimber wire with a thin and cheap standard
copper wire. And (of course) my system sounded just as good as before.

Please explain how you were "duped." Did you expect results you didn't
achieve? Did you seek a refund from the retailer?

Seems clear enough to me. He bought the Kimber cable expecting it to make
a
difference in the sound of his stereo, and when he changed to an (adequate
sized, one would hope) length of standard copper wire (lamp cord?), he
heard
NO difference. This told him that the Kimber had no discernible sonic
signature and was neither an improvement nor a degradation from regular,
cheap copper wire.

I also doubt that he could get a refund from a dealer on wire any more
than a
snake-oil salesman would refund a customer because the customer found that
the snake-oil did nothing (except perhaps make him and his family drunk).

No such thing. His expectations after all the discussion here was that
changing to the cheaper wire would not change anything. And it did not.
"Expectations" run both ways, and without a good blind test, he may simply
have gotten what he expected.