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Re: You just don't get it.

Of audiophiles, musiclovers, etc. or to be more precise, those people who care enough to get something other than a Bose Wave radio, the vast majority have heard for themselves what audio cables can do, and treat them as the component that they are.

They have the experience, and the sheer time listening to their system after various component upgrades, to have some trust in what they hear over the long term. They KNOW that cables matter, and can be heard as less than perfect. You have to chose which version of imperfection bothers you the least.

Yet the same thing can be said with regard to such things as placing photographs of yourself in your freezer and the many other tweaks that have been offered by Peter Belt for quite a few years now.

That's not to say that cables can't make a difference. I'm just curious why it's automatically assumed that they actually do just because people perceive differences with different cables. Using that line of reasoning, one would also have to assume that placing photographs of yourself in the freezer actually does make a difference.

Folks like the (cable) naysayers at AR are the very small minority. They are just very vocal about their denial.

They've hardly cornered the market on denial. The "yeasayers" are also in a state of denial. When do you ever see a "yeasayer" acknowledge the fact that our subjective perceptions are not always unerring reflections of the physical reality? The only time you ever see it acknowledge is when it's immediately followed by their insistance that being human is a disease that only afflicts others and that they're immune.

Y'all are just flip sides of the same coin. Theists on the one side and atheists on the other. Both clinging to their dogma and both clinging to their denial.

So the whole idea that cable distortions are inaudible, due to this kind of reasoning, is just not going to cut it for the vast majority of experienced audiophiles and musiclovers, not to mention the successfull high end audio designers, who take great pains to voice their products to a point that satifies THEIR sonic requirements, sometimes going contrary to the THD meter BECAUSE THATS WHAT SOUNDS RIGHT TO THEM.

But God forbid they should dare recommend to others anything that's contrary to the THD meter. They'd have you swooping down on them questioning their experience, their equipment, their hearing, etc. and generally discouraging anyone else from trying it for themselves.

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