Arny Krueger wrote:
"Powell" wrote in message
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"124" wrote

My question: What do you hope to
gain, or prove, with your beloved "test" for cables?

A demonstration of the variant of the placebo effect
that applies to audio. And it is brutal on one's ego
for one to admit that one has fallen for hype.

How is reality validated when the end result is
null testing?

Null results validate theories that predict null results and invalidate
theories that predict positive results. A well-known example from the
history of science would be the scientific tests that were used to look for
the "Ether Wind".

http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/michelsonmorley.html

Dear Arny never mind "history". Just give a reference (Title,
author(s), journal, year, volume, Nr,, page(s)) .to one single
moderated , statistically valid, comparison of comparable audio
components by a sizable representative panel.
Elsewhere you pleaded inability to buy, borrow, rent an SET amp for
comparison. That was just my attempt to make it easy for you to show
that your test does ever, ever show up differences (not just the null-
"it all sounds the same" results). Please pick the comparisons YOU
like: loudspeakers, cartridges, whatever. Something must sound
different from something else in audio yes, no?
Sorry it has to be a *reference*- like in your profession's journal
JAES at the end of every article. Not proclamations of faith by your
clown-prince- you know who- but *evidence* that your test WORKS..
Four decades have gone by and we're still waiting.
Sorry to be repetitive but what I'm asking for is elementary science. I
rub my eyes to see that this argument meanders perennially in circles
instead of staying with the simple, basic essentials. I think that
quite a few of your "subjectivist" opponents enjoy playing your games
and would not end give them up just for the boring, prosaic scientific
facts.
Ludovic Mirabel