Do speaker cables need a burn in period?

Geoff,

How many customers of (directional) aftermarket fuses are there since they first came out 15 years ago? 100,000? That’s a whole lot of typical people who can hear wire directionality.

Of course, I am skeptical that those folks actually hear the direction of their fuses rather than the psycho-acoustical effects of cognitive bias or loss aversion based on marketing hype and the fact those items cost more than the "regular" fuses some of us unenlightened folks use.

mitch2

... I am skeptical that those folks actually hear the direction of their fuses rather than the psycho-acoustical effects of cognitive bias or loss aversion based on marketing hype ...

Skepticism is a good thing. Have you ever experimented with premium fuses and whether they exhibit directionality? That's what separates the skeptics from the nay-sayers.

By the Great Almost Defined But Not Understood Higgs Boson!

I go away for a few minutes so I don’t have to see Geoff trying to stick a dunce cap on me (won’t fit -my head is too big), and this is what erupts!

You people stop that mudding, get cleaned up, and get yourselves to the dinner table!

glupson
"How many customers of (directional) aftermarket fuses are there since they first came out 15 years ago? 100,000? That’s a whole lot of typical people who can hear wire directionality."
As with any epidemiological approach, it would be interesting to see the changes in new-fuse-buyers incidence in general market and their relationship to current marketing trends. Often, probably always, objects of hallucination are related to common names/events surrounding the affected subject.

100 000 new customers over 15 years is between 6000 and 7000 a year, assuming that someone actually knows how many different people bought such fuses. It would be hard, if not entirely impossible, to know how many individual buyers exist. However, given the very specific nature of such a purchase and obvious dedication to the subject, it is safe to assume that each buyer has bought more than one fuse. Which would greatly decrease the number of people interested in fuses and hearing those differences.

In the world where number of iPhones may be approaching one billion, a few thousand people who, for whatever legitimate or not so acceptable reason, hear differences in fuses can hardly be considered "a whole lot of typical people". To begin with, people who buy aftermarket fuses are not typical and carry a heavy burden of, admittedly good-natured, potential bias on their findings.

As is frequently the case, it’s probably best for all concerned to file gubson’s gibbersih under WHATEVER.

mitch2
Geoff “How many customers of (directional) aftermarket fuses are there since they first came out 15 years ago? 100,000? That’s a whole lot of typical people who can hear wire directionality.”

Of course, I am skeptical that those folks actually hear the direction of their fuses rather than the psycho-acoustical effects of cognitive bias or loss aversion based on marketing hype and the fact those items cost more than the "regular" fuses some of us unenlightened folks use.

>>>>So, you’re skeptical? So what? Get in line. That’s why audiophile fuses have been controversial from the beginning. A real skeptic doesn’t keep repeating the same old line about expectation bias or psychological effects, he rolls up his sleeves and investigates. That’s the scientific method. Of course if you’re just mouthing off and not really interested in the facts of this case I can certainly understand.