Interconnect Directionality

robertcon-  " There is an assumption (often a self assumption) that certain "audiophiles" have golden ears, and hence they use all these "tweaks" because they have super-human hearing and can hear differences the rest of us cannot. The reality is that it is equally plausible that what they really have is a higher susceptibility to suggestion, self suggestion, and confirmation bias. At this point is it hard to argue that the latter is not the more likely case, as most of these claims fall apart when the ability to see/know the change is remove from the equation."   AND, from the Something For The Fuse Guys thread:   "........but when someone brings up a group, made of up actual audio researchers, experts, and others who are viewed by their peers as experts, that that group is suddenly of "no value"."                                                     I especially appreciated the opening line, about, "self-assumption", AS IF the poster was free of such things, after the egregious, unmitigated hubris, they've exhibited.    I suppose,  everyone is expected to believe, "susceptibility to suggestion" and  expectation or, "confirmation bias" MUST be nonexistent, within Bobbie's cadre?      What about peer pressure?      Imagine one of them, admitting to actually hearing a difference, let alone an improvement, knowing what they would face.     Oh, wait: those guys(the Naysayer Cadre) are COMPLETELY impartial(snort of derision).      Or- is it possible, that there’s ever been a panel, selected from a completely random pool of music lovers, that have never met or compared notes, as relates to their listening preferences/biases?      And: had their aural acuity tested, prior to listening?      I’d be mildly interested in the results myself, were that the case!