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.  
douglas_schroeder
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geoffkait: I suppose you never got the memo that skeptics and pseudo skeptics never actually get positive results for these sorts of things. Something to do with the reverse expectation bias or some other psychological issue. Besides if they did get positive results how could they face their friends?

to which jinjuku replied,

"I’m pretty sure I could, bias controlled, get results with say 128Kbps MP3 vs 24/192."

>>>>>Huh? First, the differences between 24/192 and MP3 aren’t really controversial, I.e., "these sorts of things." Second, I said negative results mean nothing, not (rpt not) positive results. If you get positive results with 24/192 vs MP3 it certainly doesn’t mean there are not (rpt not) audible differences in cables, something that is controversial. That would be illogical. And audible to whom? 
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wgutz
Give it a rest. This thread is DEAD.

Uh, it would appear not. The cable controversy shall never die. How long has it been going on? 40 years?