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Stereophile's weekly poll asks, "Do different audio cables—either
interconnects or speaker cables—indeed sound different?" You have a
choice of 4 answers:
--Yes, quite a bit
--Yes, but only a little
--Yes, but ever so slightly
--No, they all sound the same

Note that the correct answer (e.g., "Sometimes, but usually not" or
perhaps "Only when they measure very differently") does not appear.

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Bob Marcus wrote:
Stereophile's weekly poll asks, "Do different audio cables?either
interconnects or speaker cables?indeed sound different?" You have a
choice of 4 answers:
--Yes, quite a bit
--Yes, but only a little
--Yes, but ever so slightly
--No, they all sound the same


Note that the correct answer (e.g., "Sometimes, but usually not" or
perhaps "Only when they measure very differently") does not appear.


Or maybe 'Yes, if they are designed to be neutral'.

Mr. Atkinson reads this forum now and then. Perhaps he could comment on this omission.


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-S
Your a boring little troll. How does it feel? Go blow your bad breath elsewhere.
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Steven Sullivan wrote:

Bob Marcus wrote:
Stereophile's weekly poll asks, "Do different audio cables?either
interconnects or speaker cables?indeed sound different?" You have a
choice of 4 answers:
--Yes, quite a bit
--Yes, but only a little
--Yes, but ever so slightly
--No, they all sound the same


Note that the correct answer (e.g., "Sometimes, but usually not" or
perhaps "Only when they measure very differently") does not appear.


Or maybe 'Yes, if they are designed to be neutral'.

Mr. Atkinson reads this forum now and then. Perhaps he could comment on this
omission.


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-S


How would he know that answer? Stereophile subjects amplifiers and speakers to
measurements but I've never seen an analysis of measured characteristic of
cabling.

It seems more likely to me that the poll is designed to elicit answers that fit
the guise of the 'debate' about the cable review in the August issue where Art
Dudley saod that the Audioquest cables did sound better but allowed Dudley to
maintain a phony 'skeptical' stance about the reasons for such.

This is a pretty sophisticated Stereophile technique that allows the Editor to
proffer the benefits of high-priced and sometimes poor performing upper-end
audio products all the while seeming to have taken a skeptical
reader-beneficial tone.

All in all, it's pretty brilliant marketing but avoids examination of the
actual acoustical sound of audio products in a practical and useful sense. In
other words if the poll indicates that wires sound 'different but not as much
as everybody makes them seem' then Dudley gets confirmed and the advertisers
can go ahead and continue to make their claims (although they might have to
exaggerate them a little more.)

It's good copy but none of it deals with the existing literature that shows
that no individual or multiple subject experiment has ever shown that anybody
has ever demonstrated an ability to reliably distinguish any nominally
competent interconnect or speaker wire in a bias controlled listening test.
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Steven Sullivan wrote:
Bob Marcus wrote:
Stereophile's weekly poll asks, "Do different audio cables?either
interconnects or speaker cables?indeed sound different?" You have a
choice of 4 answers:
--Yes, quite a bit
--Yes, but only a little
--Yes, but ever so slightly
--No, they all sound the same


Note that the correct answer (e.g., "Sometimes, but usually not" or
perhaps "Only when they measure very differently") does not appear.


Or maybe 'Yes, if they are designed to be neutral'.


Oops. Meant to write 'No,..." there.


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-S
Your a boring little troll. How does it feel? Go blow your bad breath elsewhere.
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Steven Sullivan wrote:

Bob Marcus wrote:

Stereophile's weekly poll asks, "Do different audio cables?either
interconnects or speaker cables?indeed sound different?" You have a
choice of 4 answers:
--Yes, quite a bit
--Yes, but only a little
--Yes, but ever so slightly
--No, they all sound the same



Note that the correct answer (e.g., "Sometimes, but usually not" or
perhaps "Only when they measure very differently") does not appear.



Or maybe 'Yes, if they are designed to be neutral'.

Mr. Atkinson reads this forum now and then. Perhaps he could comment on this omission.

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Perhaps that should read, "Mr. Atkinson, whose magazine sells
advertising space to cable manufacturers, reads this forum now and then.
Perhaps he could comment on this omission. When pigs fly."

-GP
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