What @mahgister (and others) are trying to impart onto you is ‘synergy’ matters. That is, how your individual components (including room treatments) work together. You can assemble a very inexpensive system that sounds incredible in the right room. You can also spend thousands of $$ on components that do not complement one another. Cost has little to do with it. |
"No one will take a bet with me that they will be able to price rank a series of cables on a blind A-B test."
There is the very difficult, and the impossible. This one falls into the later category. As you said, you could probably also include CD players as well as amplifiers and still find no takers. Let’s face it, even with loudspeakers, it’s far from easy. What we can easily hear, eg bandwidth, scale and tone are qualities that don’t always equate to cost. It’s a pity that Harman aren’t able to publish the results of many decades of blind listening tests at the their testing lab. That data could certainlybe interesting to anyone with a long term interest on audio. Seeing as how it’s unlikely to be in the interests of national security perhaps there should be a 10 year disclosure rule.
After all, it’s faintly ridiculous enough that the full JFK files have remained undisclosed for almost 60, and that Pfizer BioNTech have demanded 75!
[USA – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it now needs 75 years to fully release Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data to the public]. |
