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Yes it is silly, but you would need a sensory
deprivation tank installed to achieve total null of the
ride experience.
Ok so let's leave it to Arny ol chum to come up with an
ABX box for that, OK?
I think that's a perfect project for Arny :-)
The car companies beat me to it. But, they use a kind of PCABX approach.
My point was that the cables, unless some actual
testing data
First let's test the tests as I think the jury is still
out on those.
As for testing the tests, I'm speaking of comparitive
testing, same input to both cables, varying types of
complex signal, measuring the results of both cables
identically.
One problem is that tests are now so sensitive that everything tests
different at some level of detail. For example, if I did some technical
tests of Monstor Cable's latest money-maker, I might find something like a
0.02 dB difference between the left and right channels of the same set of
wires at 40 Khz. We could then have any number of high end writers stand in
a circle inside a pentagram and argue about whether the 0.02 dB variation
between the channels caused the sound field to collapse into a grey or
purple fog. ;-)
We can get space probes out of the solar system,
we should be able to measure a piece of wire.
Remember, space probes are relatively simple things compared to 2-channel
stereo, or at least that's what the high end ragazines and manufacturers
want people to believe. For example, space probes are so insensitive that
they can even make use of negative feedback, which any audiophile worth his
salt knows is the totally destruction of sound quality. ;-)
My generalization was that the price tag of items tend to
reflect bragging rights and that I'm better than you
because I spent extreme amounts of money on it, not the
level of improved functionality.
I caught some of the Barrett-Jackson auctions on the Speed Channel this past
weekend. Now there are some bragging rights!
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/aucti...2006-bjcca.pdf
It's not the money, it's what you're doing with it.