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Most Important, Unloved Cable...

Ethernet. I used to say the power cord was the most unloved, but important cable. Now, I update that assessment to the Ethernet cable. Review work forthcoming. 

I can't wait to invite my newer friend who is an engineer who was involved with the construction of Fermilab, the National Accelerator Lab, to hear this! Previously he was an overt mocker; no longer. He decided to try comparing cables and had his mind changed. That's not uncommon, as many of you former skeptics know. :)

I had my biggest doubts about the Ethernet cable. But, I was wrong - SO wrong! I'm so happy I made the decision years ago that I would try things rather than simply flip a coin mentally and decide without experience. It has made all the difference in quality of systems and my enjoyment of them. Reminder; I settled the matter of efficacy of cables years before becoming a reviewer and with my own money, so my enthusiasm for them does not spring from reviewing. Reviewing has allowed me to more fully explore their potential.  

I find fascinating the cognitive dissonance that exists between the skeptical mind in regard to cables and the real world results which can be obtained with them. I'm still shaking my head at this result... profoundly unexpected results way beyond expectation. Anyone who would need an ABX for this should exit the hobby and take up gun shooting, because your hearing would be for crap.  
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jinjuku
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@cleeds 

I'm not the one making claims. I just testing those. When someone says they can jump 20 feet straight up and I bring out a bar that is 20 feet high, no matter if the bar is made of wood or gold, we are talking about how high someone can jump not what the bar is constructed of.

Either they can or they can not. They can do this on their own system, in their own room, using their own provided track of choice. 

I would like to find an intellectually honest subjectivist. 




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cleeds
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jinjuku
Here is the fundamental problem: Subjectivists have taken this one step too far.
If you believe contributors here have ventured "one step too far," you should alert the moderators. They control the conversation here, not you and your "put up or shut up" pronouncement.
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@jinjuku.

But the golden eared gurus who review and advise the masses are able to hear the difference in the quality of the coal burning at the coal-fired electric power station from 50 miles away - so why not Ethernet cables?

I suspect most of us realize that every slight movement of our head and position will change the sound quite audibly - some of us are able to recognize this as a non-equipment non-source music extraneous factor while others attribute this to the last tweak they made. It is next to impossible to make a change and then listen again in the exact same spot - a mere cm make a difference (at least I can hear audible differences from movement of less than a cm)
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But the golden eared gurus who review and advise the masses are able to hear the difference in the quality of the coal burning at the coal-fired electric power station from 50 miles away
Can you actually document that some have made this assertion, or did you simply fabricate it?
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