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" However, not one has been found who can do this when they don't *know*
what is connected, so your 'respect' is rather misplaced.

Gads...we've missed the point, as always....it is not "knowing what
is connected"..it is about one cable sounding a bit better or worse
than another. Simple issue, but hard to grasp?"

It is about knowing, more important how we know what we know; gads. If
one tests you and you hear a difference in wire and then by putting a
cloth over the wire connections you are no longer able to do better then
random, we now know something; gads. What we know we now know is that the
perception of difference is directly related to knowledge of which wire is
connected; gads. We then are justified to deduce that the "better/worse"
is produced in the brain and not in the properties of the wire; gads. If
we in fact know something else in that instance, please do tell us that we
may grasp; gads.

Or you may have the oppurtunity to know, upon reflection (gads) that the
test might, just might, be causing a problem.

But that begs the question that a blind a-b would not be possible using the
equipment he was using. Nor is it often possible when comparing amps,
without a very expensive control box which may itself interfere with the
speaker/amp/cable interaction.