Who says cables don't make a difference?

thyname,

"This sophist’s blindtest experiments are meant to test the listener, not the gear."

With careful design, you could aim much better. With all this back-and-forth about blind testing, not much was said in terms of methods. Remember the last time you were designing a study? What did you spend most energy on and what did reviewers scrutinize probably the most? Exactly. Not the results.

roberttdid

Now if only someone had some independent double blind tests that compared competent and expensive cables ...hmm... 10’s of manufacturers, not one public test to promote their wares. Weird huh dude?

Actually that’s not weird at all. I suspect you do understand that but in the event you don’t, I’ll break it down for you.

You call for "independent double blind tests" of cables, then bemoan that the manufacturers haven’t conducted such tests in public. But by definition, a test conducted by the manufacturer wouldn’t be independent. For the test to be independent, someone else would have to conduct the test.

Why do you think more truly independent tests haven’t been conducted? I think there are many reasons, including the apparent fact that outside of a noisy minority, most listeners don’t think such tests have much value. Let’s face it: Blind tests are a tedious and time consuming enterprise both for those conducting the test and for the test subjects.

So, @roberttdid, given your passion and faith in blind testing, I have to ask: Why don’t you organize such a test? The pandemic won’t last forever - maybe you could stage such a test at the next Axpona show.

Robert is not intrested Robert is not intrested in true scientific unbiased testing. If he can’t control the process to try to achieve the results he expects, it has no value for him. Also I don’t believe he has either the experience or ability to actually conduct such a test to begin with. Way too many discrepancies in his own statements on the subject. 

You are perhaps right, perhaps not.... We will see....

I am the only one here that has propose a SIMPLE experiment to do and doable by anybody....

Blindtesting methodology is complex...But with my simple experiment we can kill many cats with one stone...