32 pairs of speaker and RCA cables measured and listened to

 

tom2015

94 posts

08-15-2024 at 08:44pm 

No surprise here, cables sound different. 

The deniers either can’t hear well or have non resolving stereos.

The intellectually lazy comeback that we always get from the folks who will believe anything.

I spent my professional life measuring consumers'/users' subjective experience of products using various psychometric techniques. I always sought to obtain objective metrics from engineers and designers as well and then correlated those metrics with perceptual measures using multivariate statistics. This reveals both what differences are perceived and, also, what physical product features are correlated with those differences.  

Differences among cables, or any other audio component, can be resolved objectively in this way. I actually did research like this with automotive audio systems back in the day. When questions such as the present one come up I always wonder why this type of research isn't done more often in audio.

@dekay Your mention of Spandau Ballet’s “The Singles Collection” inspired me to pick up a (not so easy to find) mint/new LP. Can’t wait to spin it on my Rega P10 - that may even sound as good as your cassette version. 😎❤️

Bimmer:

It's fun going through this collection of music dating mainly from the 60's through the early 90's.

I'm only on the first layer in the box with two more to go.

DeKay

Thank you for sharing. It's too bad they didn't include a pricing matrix because in this hobby, we all walk the line of diminishing returns.