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The Science of Cables

It seems to me that there is too little scientific, objective evidence for why cables sound the way they do. When I see discussions on cables, physical attributes are discussed; things like shielding, gauge, material, geometry, etc. and rarely are things like resistance, impedance, inductance, capacitance, etc. Why is this? Why aren’t cables discussed in terms of physical measurements very often?

Seems to me like that would increase the customer base. I know several “objectivist” that won’t accept any of your claims unless you have measurements and blind tests. If there were measurements that correlated to what you hear, I think more people would be interested in cables. 

I know cables are often system dependent but there are still many generalizations that can be made.
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geoffkait
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roberjerman2,190 posts04-18-2019 10:26am@dave_b : You are right! Audiophiles can believe the stupidest things (copper vs. silver, rhodium-plated outlets, power cables, magic fuses, directionality, wire burn-in ...). Quackery is profitable, unfortunately!

>>>>Whoa! Hold your horses! I believe all of those points are valid and true. Yet I do not profit from any of them. Skepticism taken to its extreme is what, stupidity? 

A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from quackery. 
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teo_audio
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Truth is individual, not absolute. The individual can find this point of understanding. A crowd cannot.

And individual can move forward, as the individual does not consult the crowd for it’s search in clarity.

And individual can be intelligent. A crowd is as dumb as a bag of hammers.

This is a discussion in a crowd type atmosphere, ergo....

Likened to driving down a single lane road, one is only allowed (due to projected violence from the crowd's lowest common denominators) to be as good as the slowest car in the group.

Absolute truth, and only as good as the slowest car on the road.

Right.........
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None of the above responses, sans agreement, counters anything I said. I mentioned zero products! What is thee brick wall filter, is the recording chain to a fairly large degree.  Ergo,  the Truth is unobtainable in any absolute sense. One can only estimate a variance of the original truth and then reverse engineer a system to accommodate ones personal preferences.

BTW.....sometimes Quackery is just Quackery dressed up in sufficiently advanced clothing!
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