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Confirmation bias, and maybe another thing too..

I'm not a "cable naysayer". I think I hear subtle differences between different cables, at least some of the time. I definitely believe in the importance of using clean, tight fitting connectors and cables designed to reject extraneous noise.

That said, there is a hierarchy of importance in audio componentry. Speakers, recordings, and source components rank higher than cables and racks and footers do. This much is true, I think.

That said, sometimes there's a tendency to focus overly much on the minor differences produced by the lower ranking components once the highest ranking components have been installed and adjusted to our satisfaction. It's almost as if, once the *big picture* has been established, my mind has little else to do but obsess over the tinier details of the presentation. And as I focus more and more upon the tinier details, those details seem to jump out at me in what is perhaps an inordinate manner. Just as the slightest speck of dirt on a fresh white tablecloth might appear like an abomination to the fastidious and disconsolate homemaker, the slightest bit of grit or grunge in the sonic presentation can seem most annoying to the dedicated audiophile. Unforgiveness reigns in the minds of the obsessed.


YMMV and FWIW, of course...



Edits: 01/23/15 01/23/15

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