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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.  
douglas_schroeder
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jinjuku
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The test has no value for the claimant either.but you are free to believe whatever you want to.
The results are what they are.

My questions are: When would you be willing to sit for a bias controlled evaluation?

How are you able to interject on behalf of the claimant?

How do you know it had no value for the claimant?

How do you know their custom cable with all it's treatments isn't the equivalent of others in the industry?

How do you know what their system sounds like? I do. 
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Here’s the crux:

It’s patently ignorant to support numerous sighted evaluation but pan bias controlled evaluations even when we only have a few instances so far.

It’s a single instance farther in the correct direction than any single one of you have actually made it.

Again, feel free to have me out with a client / server and your USB DAC and downstream chain. Just cover my travel expenses if you can’t hit 18/20.

Honestly, if it takes two weeks for a ’change’ to be ’noticed’ there are other things at play mentally.
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This is the problem with the world population. Some ’hundreds of thousands’ (and more) and into the millions as scattered across the earth, say the earth is flat. That is a humongous blip of statistical significance.

Fixed that for you. I thought better context could be provided in couching your response in easier to relate terms. 
willemj
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The result could be predicted. Confront the voodoo priests with the experimental facts that show they were wrong and they will try to change the rules of the game. As for Geoff and Theo, they of course have a financial stake in perpetuating such deception.
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The result could be predicted. Confront the voodoo priests with the experimenttal facts that show they were wrong and they will try to change the rules of the game. As for Geoff and Theo, they of course have a financial stake in perpetuating such deception.
I've been surprised that the most vocal of differences are also the most adamant that they simply be trusted without any instrumented verification to further credential the claims made. 
 
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