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"...we have been fooling ourselves for years."

Your words, not mine.

...and is one of the few things that is about as universal as can be possible...

Scientists and engineers only speak like this about things like Newton's Law of Gravity and Maxwell's Equations. So saying this about twisted pair cables is about as non-scientific as you can get. Unless, of course, I missed that article titled: "Risch's Twisted Law".

Define sufficient.

Well a simple definition would be a cable that passes an audio signal without audible degradation.

A physicist is not automatically an expert on high end audio components, or audio cables either. Unless of course, you are concrned that one of your cables might cause a black hole to form, and need to know about this.

You are attacking an authority before anything has even been presented or discussed. Suspicion of authority is one of the signs of uncompromising belief systems. You have demonstrated this on many occasions. The need to continually discredit authority is strong indication of a weak position.

You have even dismissed Stephen Hawking as another non-audio physicist who knows "diddly" about high end audio design. You don't think perhaps he has the intelligence to assess this situation in a New York minute? Of course not, he has no "real world experience". Well since he hasn't been to the edge of the galaxy, I suppose we should take his astronomical musings with a grain of salt.

Besides, you must know, your freinds truck is the exception, not the rule.

Well, no actually I don't "must know". I could go into a multitude of wheeled vehicles that have a high top speed but a slow acceleration time compared to other vehicles. You, must know that. Well, maybe not, you might be the exception.

We have seen the establishment accepted levels of audible THD creep down from several percent in the 50's (3-5% was commonly accepted as being inaudible), down to 1% in the 60-70's, then down to 0.5 to 0.3% in the 90's. Back in the 50's, they thought they knew for sure too.

When you say "establishment accepted levels of audible THD", who was this established by? Audiophiles or otolaryngologists? I'll bet if it was audiophiles there are no records of testing and if it was otolaryngologists, there is documented evidence.

I don't mean to be rude or abrasive, just back up what you say.

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