Harley quote


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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There are 2 things to consider:

1) what is theoretically (scientifically, measurably) better
2) what is audibly noticeably better

Some people want “the best” - even though we know there is no “best” regardless of cost. They’ll pay/do anything even for only consideration 1 above. Sometimes, it is free to get the scientific benefit (cables not touching, etc). 
Then some can be of varying expense- making sure wires are not moving or vibrating internally in components,  making sure stylus is not subject to outside vibration. Room treatments, silver cable wire, $40K phono stages.
Beware of the law of diminishing returns and what you can actually hear, not what you think you hear. Psychoacoustics. Listen for yourself. Take reviews, especially in publications with advertisers, with a grain of salt. Seems like everything they listen to is great and a great value compared to the competition. Of course that is impossible.

Happy listening and testing.
Thanks sokogear....

Just a remark to say that the diminishing return laws applies in all case...

But all my devices are homemade and cost peanuts then it is impossible for most to trust the fact that for peanuts we can create a more than good Hi-fi system...