DO CABLES REALLY MATTER?

roberjerman
@ ron1319: I’d bet that if you repeated your tests again the next day or next week you’d get different results! Human memory of sonic "differences" is very fallible and prone to error! Making comparative testing difficult and frustrating!

>>>>I trust you’re speaking for yourself as my audio memory is perfectly fine. Sorry to hear of your difficulty and frustration. Maybe you need to eat more fish. 🐟 besides, as I’ve oft commented things change from hour to hour, day to day, week to week for a lot of reasons so of course it would make sense that things might sound quite different from time to time. The difficulty is correlating sound with the variables, as always. Nobody promised you a rose garden. 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 If it was easy everyone would have a great sounding system.

- Your friend and humble narrator

calvinj
Yup psycho babble is at an all time.

>>>>>Gets my vote for the most ambiguous post of the month. 😳

And speaking of psycho babble, this just in,

”And everyone at your local Psychic Fair, or alternative healing convention, or anyone peddling pseudo-science, says the same thing.

Congratulations on the company you are keeping ;-)”

Note to self: you can usually tell the ones ones who didn’t go to school.

prof

... if you listened to a song on my system at 70dB sound level, left for a week then returned to listen again, you would not be able to tell if I'd raised the volume by a couple db.   That difference is far too small to keep distinct in your memory.

Quite so. The ear is rather insensitive to absolute level. But the ear/brain system is much more adept at detecting relative differences in level.  That's why the value of quick-switching is not nearly as great as prof's argument suggests.

Geoffkait ..... "blind injection" ?
Don't mess with my brother Ray in concern with his Raylettes!!!