$10k Speaker Cables??????????????

Yup, and scurrilous Kats. 🙀

An optometrist's son asked his father how he determines the price of prescription glasses... the father told him, he puts a pair of glasses in front of the patient and says $100 - if they don't blink, he says plus $100 for lenses, if they still don't blink, he says "each".

Actually I’m all for blind testing. I just think blind tests don’t necessarily mean anything. Nothing too heavy. And people think they’re SO scientific. Give me a break. Who are these people, English majors? Drug industry Mavericks? They think they’re SO skeptical. But hey, knock yourself out if blind tests turn you on. There’s something for every taste. For martinitime51 that taste happens to be 🐈💩 💩

Ha, ha. Get in the gunny sack, nice Kitty!  🐈💩=🐍🐈

A properly designed test IS scientific. But no need to call it "scientific" if you don't want to. The term adds nothing to a well designed test.

And it isn't a matter of tests turning anyone on. Its a matter of a hobby and the industry that surrounds it often making incredible claims about very expensive products. If the claims, bling factor, price tag and some magazine reviewer using all the pat terms is all you need to plunk down big money so be it. If you like what you bought then that's even better. Its all good.

But there comes a point at which the glaring absence of anything approaching credible and reproducible evidence creates a certain level of warranted skepticism and dismissal.

And I suspect those who moan and groan the most about testing are those who stand to lose the most. That includes vendors, magazines and purveyors of dubious tweaks.