Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums?

“All cables are equal, but some cables are more equal than others.”

Actually they aren’t. Some cables, often “high end” ones do audibly color the sound. 
 

“In that case, how do you know if the cables are either transparent or color the sound?”

Fair question. One can look at the multitude of controlled listening tests that demonstrate it. One can look at bull tests and see or literally hear it. One can do their own controlled tests if they like. I have done a few of them. Some of which would have revealed *any* audible differences were there any to be heard.

Spell check strikes again. Null test not bull test. Although there was something serendipitous aboythat one

@scottwheel ,

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@calvinj 

I attempt to keep it simple, especially where stepping around adopting attitudes shown from myself, where the forming a evaluation without a direct experience is the intention. I avoid if possible any attitude that can relate to the following:   

  "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

@pindac precisely, it’s like talking to someone you don’t know. Commenting on something you haven’t heard in an environment you never been in then saying there is not a difference. It’s like a blind person telling you that you  look ugly and they have never saw your face. Then being sensitive about their blindness to the point that they will double or triple down on that position because they are insecure about that blindness. Then to top that all off call you a shill and that you only saying it to sell someone smthg. Despite not ever talking or knowing that person in your entire life. It says something when their first interaction is negative and repeatedly argumentative about something that you own and are hearing and smthg that they have never heard.