A-B testing of cables

"By definition neutral cable would be an absence of coloration, distortion, or imbalance of the complete tonal range. Anything that affects any tonal element differently than it does the rest is going to throw off the tonal balance."

Great. But like I asked you before: "If neutral cables are so important, define them. How do I know cable A is more neutral than cable B?"

Give us an example of a cable that you know is neutral. And not just because you say so. Prove it. All of the differences that you've listed in this thread, and your other one, can easily be explained by the interactions of the components themselves, and not the cables. Cables make a difference, but active components make bigger differences. (Yes, I understand that there may be the occasional exception, as there always is.). With all your talk, you make it sound like the components don't have anything to do with how the system sounds.

10-21-15: Aintitgr8
Believe it or not women tend to have better hearing for higher frequencies. My wife, while she was clueless as to what she was listening for as pertains to critical listening, could hear edgy hardness in friend's systems and would remark that they were "nasty and hard to listen to". She'd tell me I needed to fix their systems.

Aintitgr8
Interesting example. thanks for sharing. In our household my wife only 9 months younger than I, has come in last on multiple hearing tests behind my myself and our now 21 year old fraternal twins (boy and girl).

so..... I don't think you can make a statement like this;

"Believe it or not women tend to have better hearing for higher frequencies."

...without looking at each case individually and the factors involved (age, environmental, occupation, heredity to name just a few)

And based on the clear evidence presented in this short fun video on hearing capability

Click here

I think that the statement can be modifed to say;

"Believe it or not "younger people" have better hearing for higher frequencies"

Now the above does raise the question for your specific example... is your wife younger than yourself and by how many (y)ears ? :^)

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@Almandog the OP of this thread who asked.

What is your experience in doing A-B testing of interconnects?

I look at it this way. You can be in one of two phases.

Phase A) Audiophile - uses music to listen to their gear.
Phase B) Music Lover - uses gear to listen to their music.

I have been in Phase B for a long time now. Over the years I would probably split it up into B - 85% and A- 15%.

But when in phase A ......I usually go deep. :^(

The clue for myself that I am in Phase A ....the music becomes a set of specific albums.

Happy Listening

Maybe, he'll answer my question.

Hi almandog, my answer to your question to all, is I have had years of success of a/be testing of cable's, I also recommend ditching the adapter!,I remember when Michael Fremer did a test on the TARA zero gold Interconnects and omega gold speaker cable's, lol, my findings was different, opposite of his claims's, he accused the speaker cable's of the deep sound,when in fact, it was the Interconnects!, I simply used other Tara cables to discover the trio truth, happy listening.

Hi cto517, I enjoyed your post, the video was a proof, lol, I went along with the test,for years I believed women could hear high frequencies better than men, your video shared some new light into what I believe now, damn, I'm 48!, according to the test, my hearing is normal,very good!