A little bit of Truth


http://audio-pages.webjump.com/cables.htm

Far more informative than alot of stuff.
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After reading my post, a final thought occurred to me. For those who doubt that the brain interprets how we perceive physical reality, remember that the human eye is like a camera lens: it inverts everything. So, the actual image we "see" is upside down. The visual image stimulus, however, is translated by the visual cortex (at the back of your brain, just above the point where the spinal cord enters the cranium), which makes the image seem "right side up". The brain "knows" that the image is inverted based on what the rest of our body tells us about our physical universe. So, no matter what we audiophiles want to believe about what we "hear", it's actually our brain that determines how we perceive "reality".
hmm, be careful about spelling "Truth" with a capital T...which philosopher was that...
Sdcambell, it looks to me like that brain compensation phenomonon is also responsable for component "burn in", especially with cables and solid state equipment.
The thing is, people shouldn't get defensive about it. It really does happen, the only problem is when people start selling cable break in devices and such.
If Beethoven were alive today, those articles would quote him saying that he can not hear a difference between, ignoring that he was deaf. Being an electrical expert or a musical genius does not mean you have good hearing.