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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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There has been no scam. Jinjuku has not cheated anyone. The only thing plain for all to see is your nasty personal attack against someone who simply challenges your line of thinking.

As for my experience, I know for a fact you are right about cables as I have heard it myself many times but these effects are mostly subtle and ONLY audible when using poorly designed, poorly matched and/or malfunctioning audio components. Of course you hear differences because almost anything can influence the sound of broken or badly designed equipment. There is nothing at all even remotely surprising about this discovery. The conclusion that cables are a key component in the sound and deserving of high $$$ expenditures is the tomfoolery of a winkley dinkler. The choice is simple when faced with audible changes in a setup where none should occur: Switch out your faulty gear and take a leap forward in high fidelity or continue tinkering with band aids like cables and fuses!
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" Jinjuku has not cheated anyone."

I absolutely hope that you are completely correct in the simple assertion although I do not know how you can be certain that you are correct unless you yourself are jinjuku which of course on the Internet which is full of sockpuppets and outright deception is certainly possible! If it is true that you are correct that jinjuku did not cheat anyone then the diligent moderators who expertly manage this active group acted in time when they permanently deleted every post jinjuku made to promote his deliberate scam and if you do not see the accuracy of that I kindly invite you to contact the moderators and request that they restore the deleted posts which I do not think is something they will consider because they know the truth and so I suspect you do too!

I would add to this that if jinjuku’s proposal was NOT a scam then it should be reposted here with all of the pertinent information which is something the moderators would allow under the terms of use of this group provided it is NOT a scam but of course we all know better it was a SCAM! That's why it was deleted!
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You stated this on another thread where you very very heavily promoted TruFi:

" I am a client of Bo's and it has been proven to me and it has been proven to everyone that the world of music reproduction systems is shifting from one of widdley-tiddley voodoo to TruFi, which is recognized by all who hear it. "

Since Jinjuku has been civil and respectful and it is actually you who is making all the nasty assertions about others on these forums, I suggest that is you who should identify yourself! Are you Bo? Are you a shill for TruFi? What is your affiliation to Bo?

As I understand it, TruFi is a commercial endeavour that simply sells third party components especially selected by Bo using his genius and TruFi patented technology... sounds like a scam to me but perhaps you can explain.
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I am not scamming anyone I am not asking anyone for money or asking them to reveal personal details as part of some scam to cheat them. If you think my posts here are a scam like jinjuku's then you should ingage the moderators in your belief so that they can thoroughly evaluate it and if they come to the same certain conclusion as they did with jinjuku then they will delete my posts here just as they did when they realized what jinjuku was up to. Shadorne it is beginning to look like you are jinjuku which is perfectly believeable because you keep defending someone who has been revealed to be a proved SCAM "artist" who used this group to cheat other people.
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I will bow out of this conversation as you appear to be suffering from conspiracy theory paranoia. I am not Jinjuku. Neither I believe is Dynaquest. If someone challenges your beliefs or sees things differently from you it does not automatically mean there is a nefarious intent. Jinjuku presented a difference in opinion on the audibility of Ethernet cables and was actually willing to challenge others to test the differences in the system of choice of those making the wild claims. All harmless stuff to me. The fact that no test will happen simply adds more weight to the view that the audibility of differences are pretty small or subtle, if any.
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