Nousaine wrote:
...And, of course, you would have checked to see if the response of the signal being
delivered to the loudspeakers was matched within 0.2 dB over the spectrum.

Why 0.2 dB? A broadband difference of 0.2 dB is adequate to make you
think the louder one is better even though you can't tell it's louder.


Nominally competent for any audio product is response errors no greater than
+/- 0.1 dB overe the audio spectrum, clipping less than 1% of the time, noise
levels that are not audible at the listening position and no operating
irregularities.

Will you stand by this? No back-tracking? This is your once and for all
complete definition of "competent"?

(Do you know about Richard Heyser's black box of many years ago that
measured *perfect* on all standard tests and sounded truly awful?)



...there have been more than 2 dozen bias-controlled listening experiments that shows Walker wasn't that far from
being right.

"not that far from being right" = "wrong"

And by the way, how many of these experiments used a live mike feed?
Please cite the experiments.



It simply is no one's fault but their own that the wire industry and consumer
base hasn't produced a single verified experiment where wire that hasn't
changed known causal factors (level, noise and frequency response) has been
audibly distinguishable let alone improved sound quality.

But wires *do* have different frequency responses---when in-circuit with
specific amps & speakers. THat's part of what it means to be that wire.

jb