Speaker wire is it science or psychology

tireguy - I ordered the article, however, they are saying 3 to 4 weeks, ugh. I am, of course, naturally suspicious. I have never heard the term "dynamic suppression".

I am gathering test gear for a speaker project I have in mind and I realized something this morning. With just an amp, a scope and an audio generator I can do a very accurate measurement of wire. I will go down to Radio Shack and get some of the wire everyone hates and I always use - their cheapest 14 guage speaker wire. Using 10ft of this vile stuff, I will connect it to a speaker placed on the test bench. The audio generator will drive the amp, of course. The scope is a dual trace and I will display the voltage at the amp on one trace and the voltage at the speaker on the other trace. The traces can the be position directly over each other on the scope. The beauty of this simple setup is that it is not dependent on the frequency response of the generator or the amplifier. All I have to do is to find a difference. I can even test the scope by switching leads. If I do find a difference, well, I have my wife's 38 revolver here so I can do the honorable thing. What do you think?

The article Tireguy pointed out from HiFi News... is the article I was referring to.

I take it, Redkiwi, that you cannot answer the question.

Trelja - See my post to tireguy. I am waiting on the delivery of the signal generator.

Jostler3 - you are dragging me off point into an irrelevancy. I am not interested in whose ***** is bigger, just trying to make a simple point that you are failing to comprehend. What kind of scientist are you if you have no powers of observation? I am NOT claiming Nyq'ies maths are wrong. I am NOT claiming that push-pull amps do not show lower measured distortion that single-ended. I am NOT claiming that transistor amps do not have lower measured distortion than valves. What I am saying is that it is notable that most significant scientific breakthroughs in this area in the last 40 to 50 years have seemed to many of us to take us down unmusical paths, and that recently people have appreciated this to the extent that you can put together a system based on the vinyl LP, single-ended valve amplification, and high sensitivity and high impedence speakers that is at least as truthful to the music as any CD, SS amp, inefficient low impedence speaker system. I am a scientist and believe in the scientific method. But it dismays me when scientists have such blind faith in the theories they understand as to deny experienced phenomena - such as Stevenmj's engineer friend who believes all speaker cables sound the same. That is the topic of this thread. My point is that we have seen this closed-minded approach from scientists for years - ie. "digital interconnects cannot sound different". I am suggesting their closed-minded views based on a meagre understanding of what goes on in an audio system are not worth listening to. Their universe is too small a place to have the debate in. Though your ego drives you to prove I am ignorant and you are a scientific guru, and so you have chosen to misinterpret my post to your satisfaction - I do not care. I do not propose to feed your ego any further by continuing to explain my first post to you, or respond to your irrelevant challenges.