The Absurdity of it All

One day, a few will clue in to the fact that if all they chase are marketing claims and not real substantiated audible claims,

Too simplistic....

I listened some costly tweak product on youtube marketed by a well known company and it is EVIDENT that there is an audible effect....

But not necessarily an effect i would want in my system...

Anyway i replicated some of these tweaks AT LOW COST but without the artificiality in the audible effect... My device control was less powerful but more delicate in the musical effect....Then some may produce very real spectacular effect, but not necessarily something i would wanted to pay for...And anyway one could replicate some at peanuts costs....

All tweaks are not equal....



This is not fact only my own experience for sure....

Fair!


My best to you....

Likewise!

@dletch

One day, a few will clue in to the fact that if all they chase are marketing claims and not real substantiated audible claims, then things will never get better and that they are part of the problem. Maybe some cables make an audible difference, but it will be an actual scientist or engineer that proves it, characterizes it, communicates how to replicate it, why it works, and how to take advantage of it, not the present lot of cable jockies and their wannabee hanger ons.

Most excellent summation. Vaporware is rampant in consumer audio. Not as much in pro audio, but the cable snakes are weaseling in to make rich, wannabe weekend warrior guitar players think that "tone is in the cables". It isn’t. It starts in the fingers. In HiFi it starts in the recording, and no magic cable is going to make a bad record sound more "liquidity, holographically 4 dimensional, effortless, with a blacker noise floor"...ever.

dletch2"One day, a few will clue in to the fact that if all they chase are marketing claims and not real substantiated audible claims, then things will never get better and that they are part of the problem."

What we hear are real substantiated claims this seems to be the problem you're religion seems to struggle with which as others have observed, explained, and noted is that you think only you're blind tests reveal what people hear!  You're blind tests have shown to be flawed too and not scientific but I'm sure your feel safe in your religion.

@edgewound.  
You didn’t address why you have taken it upon yourself to save us all from ourselves?

And that we are somehow incapable of listening/deciding for ourselves?

Or if you have tried tweaks at home in your own system?

But you know better than us what we can hear...

@dletch2   
You seem to really have a problem with marketing?

Ive spent the bulk of my working life in the advertising industry. At the best, I’m helping to inform people about something that can somehow help them in their day to day lives. At the worst, I’m trying to convince someone of the importance of something they have zero need for.

Marketing claims, and the hype that goes along with them, are like water off a ducks back to me.