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RE: Theory is great

E-Stat, you seem determined to keep ignoring the elephant in the room on this one.

The one point I drew from reading (and rereading) this is that when a light was present that indicated which cable was in use, the proclamations regarding power cord differences were quite grand.

When the light was disabled, things became far less certain.

It did not appear to me that anything else in the test setup regarding the switching process changed.

I suppose one could have some exotic theory about the effect of the power consumed or emitted by the light impacting the cables but that requires ignoring something that is actually consistently demonstrated in humans - subjective bias. One has to ignore a well established effect and go looking for obscure explanations.

That doesn't mean it can't be, but as suggested by Occam's Razor, the odds do not favor the elaborate when a simpler explanation accounts for the situation.

Simply put, as the visibility and knowledge of the items under test in an audio comparison becomes lower, the language used to describe differences also becomes less dramatic.

That does not mean there are no differences, but the scale certainly changes.


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