The Absurdity of it All

chayro

“Well, we seem to put our faith in the elderly for quite a bit nowdays, so why not in audio?”

Well said. 

@mahgister

You get it. My points exactly.

Fair!


My best to you....

One day, a few will clue in to the fact that if all they chase are marketing claims and not real substantiated audible claims, then things will never get better and that they are part of the problem.  Maybe some cables make an audible difference, but it will be an actual scientist or engineer that proves it, characterizes it, communicates how to replicate it, why it works, and how to take advantage of it, not the present lot of cable jockies and their wannabee hanger ons.

One day, a few will clue in to the fact that if all they chase are marketing claims and not real substantiated audible claims,

Too simplistic....

I listened some costly tweak product on youtube marketed by a well known company and it is EVIDENT that there is an audible effect....

But not necessarily an effect i would want in my system...

Anyway i replicated some of these tweaks AT LOW COST but without the artificiality in the audible effect... My device control was less powerful but more delicate in the musical effect....Then some may produce very real spectacular effect, but not necessarily something i would wanted to pay for...And anyway one could replicate some at peanuts costs....

All tweaks are not equal....



This is not fact only my own experience for sure....

Fair!


My best to you....

Likewise!

@dletch

One day, a few will clue in to the fact that if all they chase are marketing claims and not real substantiated audible claims, then things will never get better and that they are part of the problem. Maybe some cables make an audible difference, but it will be an actual scientist or engineer that proves it, characterizes it, communicates how to replicate it, why it works, and how to take advantage of it, not the present lot of cable jockies and their wannabee hanger ons.

Most excellent summation. Vaporware is rampant in consumer audio. Not as much in pro audio, but the cable snakes are weaseling in to make rich, wannabe weekend warrior guitar players think that "tone is in the cables". It isn’t. It starts in the fingers. In HiFi it starts in the recording, and no magic cable is going to make a bad record sound more "liquidity, holographically 4 dimensional, effortless, with a blacker noise floor"...ever.