ONE MINUTE Premium Power Cable Survey

@acman3

Good morning. And good question.

Wlhen someone revisits the survey they get an alert from Survey Monkey that they have already taken the survey, and is presented with no other options. There may be a "firewall" here that’s easy to work around that I haven’t tried yet. Also, it would be a simple task to revist the survey from another device and the survey would see that user as a "new participant". So, theoritically, you could participate in the same survey as a different user from your desktop, laptop, tablet, phone or your Samsung microwave oven app. There may be an industrial version out there that has face recognition, samples DNA or scans your record collection to see if you have any counterfit copies of the Led Zepplin IV album to reduce the likelinhood of fraud to close to zero, but I just wasn’t that ambitious. Maybe a PIN assingment or password might be something to look into -- next time?

Hopefully, the participants entered the exercise in good faith. That’s the best I could ask from a group of friends.

I think that is good enough and any further action needed on our part would lower sample number. I was not complaining, but I just thought of the people who seem to dedicate their lives to proving cables are, or are not important to our hobby, and it looked like they might be able to tilt the actual findings.

I look forward to the results. Thanks for the thread.

@waytoomuchstuff Great survey and I look forward to seeing the results. The only suggestion I have would have been to add an option on the question about the experiences with premium cables making significant improvement to no improvement. It’s hard to coin all premium power cables to any single answer. I’ve had some cables that change the sound significantly, but not for the better, and others that completely transform the system sound in a positive way. As such it’s on a case by case basis vs being a general experience across all. 

@blisshifi

Good suggestion. I was agonizing over the granularity of the survey. Comprehensive vs brief. I actually decided to add 2 questions after the survey was underway that I thought were very important.

I’d like to see more surveys in the future. Perhaps a "pre-survey survey" to take the pulse of members to see what questions they would ask on a particular subject. Then build the survey based on the Top 10 (or, 20?). What genre’s are most popular for this group? Or, what is your ’go to’ source for SQ, as a couple of examples? Might be fun!

@waytoomuchstuff I have been thinking of making surveys myself to better understand the wants/desires/experiences of audiophiles and music lovers. I wasn’t sure what the participation level would be, but it seems you are getting good traction. It’s good inspiration for me wanting to do something similar. 

Thank you for your efforts.