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Regarding two aftermarket power cables: "These differences in the shapes of the musical waveforms are far too small to see or measure with even the most sophisticated technology, yet we as listeners not only routinely discriminate such differences, we sometimes find musical meaning in these differences."

 Nonsense. Just because people claim to "routinely discriminate" differences doesn't mean it's true or they're right. Apparently many have witnessed UFOs but that doesn't mean they actually saw extraterrestrial visitors, does it? Some have seen/heard a deity speaking to them "routinely"; does that imply that they are surely communing with an unseen/unmeasurable spiritual force(s)? Can we not put a little more effort into confirmatory reality-testing first when "the most sophisticated technology" can find nothing in 2020? (Of course, speaker cables can measure differently as per here, here, even if not necessarily audible in many cases by the time we connect amp to speaker.)

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audio2design
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He believes that the ear/brain interface is endowed with magical powers, and that sound quality transcends any attempt to qualify it by any type of objective measure.

It was an untreated three-walled room with one side completely open to the rest of the house.  Irredeemable by objective acoustic measures, yet he claimed that it was a great sounding room.

I believe he posts at Agon under multiple names :-)


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The Black Sea is one geographical region that may have endured post glacial flooding, thereby fostering the Noah story found in the Bible.  Mesopotamians also had a great flood myth.  An Ark makes no sense whatsoever....I’m religious as well, but I am also a scientist.  We don’t need fantastical stories to embrace a higher being!
glupson
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"It was an untreated three-walled room with one side completely open to the rest of the house."

A house with an alcove?
douglas_schroeder
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The period of glaciation was after the Flood, also seen clearly in the record. Read the book and learn. 

No comment on this? 

So, here's another attempt to return to the topic; what of my discussion of using full sets of cables as the only legitimate way to work with cables, and to resolve the seeming impasse between measurements and experience?


audio2design
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So, here's another attempt to return to the topic; what of my discussion of using full sets of cables as the only legitimate way to work with cables, and to resolve the seeming impasse between measurements and experience?


I think that is totally misdirected and there is no basis for this. IF, and that is a big if with the exception of speaker cables with excessive inductance, capacitance or resistance, there is a readily audible difference between cables, then the only way that is going to happen is through an interaction between the source, the cable, and the load. Hence what works for one set of equipment, will not for another. The concept of a full loom is pure marketing.

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