Upgrading Fuses

Way to hold your own Vance. Isn't education sometimes a bitch for those who won't listen.

Yeah, thanks for edjamacatin' us ignurnts real good in the ways of faith learnin's!

"Isn't education sometimes a bitch for those who won't listen. "

Seems like there is a contradiction in there somewhere? :)

Eldartford - Interesting test approach, thanks. To be honest I'm lazy and completely undisciplined on testing ic's & speaker cable. I just keep the ones that seem to sound the best (and don't cost that much). One of the vendors, maybe the name was something like alpha core, used to sell cables that were built like giant capacitors, two flat thin conductors with a very thin slice of insulation in between, would have been interesting to run your test on them as I think they might have been the most extreme attenuators in the marketplace. Surprisingly to me they (speaker cables were tested not ic's) seemed to screech the upper frequencies instead of squash them.

Experience is the best teacher. There is no room left for actual experience in this thread. It is now the typical measurements circle jerk that has as much to do with musical enjoyment as jacking off has to do with sex. Enjoy.

"Why isn't this debate about science" - Metro4

Simple, because it is not science that is at play. It is science in the service of music. Music is art. Art is human expression. If you think that the sophistication of electronic science matches the complexity of musical sounds (art), you don't understand art.

"The onus of proof ALWAYS falls on the person making the claim, not the other way around" -Metro4

Really? In my universe (and that of many here) it is you (and others here) that are making the claim; the claim that there is no difference. YOU prove it; if proof must be provided. Prove that there is no difference. Why does it bother you that some of us trust our ears? Why does it bother you that some of us perhaps have more sensitive hearing (by way of nature or training) in certain specific ways than others do? Why do you think that we have learned all that there is to know about the science of sound as it relates to sound and it's reproduction?