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On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 08:04:25AM +0000, tom wrote: > Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:27:49PM -0000, Michael Mortimore wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:05:56 -0000, bas <baslake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>> So just how much did you pay for the oxygen free copper again > >>>> > >>> The cables between the player and the amp where £85.00 (1/2 metre > >>> cables) and the cables to the speaker (bi wire) where £48.00 each, but > >>> worth every penny as you only buy them once. > >>> > >> What's the difference between a £85 cable and a £8 one? (other than price) > >> > > > > I do have to wonder exactly how much difference it would make. Anybody > > conducted any double-blind trials of audio cables? > > > Double blind tests stopped in about 1969 when the Golden Ears of the > hifi magazines were asked to tell the difference between quad Mk11 valve > amps(1% distortion) 33/303 (0.1% distortion) combos and 45/405 (0.01%). > They couldnt spot the differences. I seem to recall hearing that online hi-fi forums banned discussion of double-blind trials. Presumably they don't like hearing evidence that they've been conned. -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx || gpg: 0x166891C7 ...you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself belongs to nobody. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Dissertation On the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind
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