On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 19:06:38 GMT, "=?iso-8859-1?q?J=F3n?= Fairbairn"
wrote:

(Stewart Pinkerton) writes:
OK, so Tom Nousaine, Arny Kreiger, I and about a dozen
experienced audiophile friends of mine need hearing tests,
and not one single person has evan *attempted* to collect
the $4,000 pool which awaits anyone who can tell cables
apart under blind conditions.

Just out of interest, how low quality does cable have to be
before you can detect it? I'd expect that if you connect the
speakers with something crazy like thin coax it would be
noticable, but it would be an interesting datapoint to try
DBTs with a few things to see what can be heard.

Aside from silliness like 'bell wire' with several ohms resistance, I
have *never* heard any difference under blind conditions, even with
unobtainium conductors of Golden Section dimensions insulated with
rarest Chinese silk hand-rolled on the thighs of Cuban virgins.....

I wouldn't expect the results to be different from DBTs with
various series resistors, inductors and parallel capacitors,
(what values of those are detectable?) but it still might
be worth doing from a didactic point of view.

With levels matched to +/- 0.1 dB at 100Hz, 1kHz and 10kHz, experience
suggests that 'wire is wire'. If you can prove different, there's a
$4k pot waiting to be collected.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering