Are manufacturer AC cables good enough?

djones,
I was directing my comment to geoffkait who makes excuses for not doing testing. Blind testing/comparative testing of speakers, is not easy if you want great results. Dr. Toole's goal in those tests were to minimize the time between speakers to maximize the chance that testers could pick up subtle differences. For most other equipment, the changes are easier to make. Of course, according to some, fast changes "don't work" so for those people, it is even easier as you can take your time making the change and let them listen as long as they want.

I have nothing but the greatest respect for Toole, by the way. He was great in Becket.

By the way, Mr. Smarty Pants. I have a little bit of experience with testing. I was the government witness for testing a 2B $ national FAA critical communications program.

millercarbon

You don’t have to try and convince me. I could tell from the beginning you weren’t any good at this. ;-)

Written like a true Golden Ear.
At least one of us was willing to actually to see if we can discern differences without cheating ;-)
Wouldn't want to threaten one's Golden Ear status.

heaudio123,

"Even the most basic single blind test is far more rigourous than any sited test all other variables the same.

Anyone who advocates for sited tests, or advocates against blind tests, can be simply ignored.

Their ignorance w.r.t. testing of anything involving human perception is too limited to make their opinion of use or they have an agenda that again makes their communication of no value."


These three sentences cannot be any clearer.

No matter which way you wish to go, no matter how little you may yet know of audio playback, or of human psychology and perception, I can guarantee you from personal first hand hard earned experience that you will eventually arrive at exactly the same conclusions.