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(Michael Scarpitti) wrote:

lcw999 wrote in message
news:9Pn8c.87424$po.663367@attbi_s52...
Over the years these Audio newsgroups have been a beehive of
activity regarding Cables, Amps, CD players...etc.

There is a contingent on some of these groups that tend to have
an Engineering bent toward those that frequent the High-End
audio...basically, it states your "imagination is misleading you"
There are no detectable differences in cables, etc.

According to William of Occam, nature does not work in a more
complicated way than necessary. Given two explanations, the one that
is simpler is more likely to be true. The simplest explanation for why
people hear difference between cable is that there are audible
differences between cables. Citing 'psychological factors' is no
explanation at all.

I don't think so. Muller-Lyrer lines, photos of the St Louis Arch (examples of
built-in human perceptual error) and experiments where its been shown that
humans will gladly report differences a large majority of the time when given 2
identical sound presentations telsl me that the simplest explanation is that
perceptual error is the most likely cause of cable-sound.