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Re: I am not saying cables don't make a difference.

Despite an huge amount of posturing and posting, not one person has ever provided the data for how what we hear fully corrrelates with what has been measured....

Since people can hear different things when measurements stay the same, I would say this goal is unattainable.

...or what has been determined to be our thresholds and limits of hearing.

This statement is incorrect. There is a large body of work in the medical field that has determined the frequency range we can hear, the minimum SPL we can detect, the minimum change in SPL we can detect, the loudest sounds before damage is done, our sensitivity to harmonics, and the list goes on. We know the capabilities of the ear.

RE your car analogy, it is highly flawed. What about acceleration? The car that can ONLY just do 55 MPH, will NOT be able to accelerate as well as the car that can do 100 MPH. It is also likely that the car that can do 100 MPH will be able to corner better, etc., even at 55 MPH.

Sorry but I have a friend with a truck that has lots of torque, pretty good top speed but not so good acceleration. He is beaten off the line by almost all cars, even Hyundais, but wins in top speed.

Until you have heard what can occur with decent cables on a fine system, what you post is mere extrapolation based on a decided lack of experience with high end audio, as well as common audio technical issues.

I guess this statement applies to Stephen Hawking because I do not believe he has any experience in high end audio or audio technical issues?

Obviously, to say that coax is the ultimate interconnect, and that a twisted pair with an overall shield is worse, points to a decided lack of real world experience and exposure to what actually happens out there in the real world of high performance playback.

Why isn't a coax cable sufficient for real world home audio? Assuming we don't live next to a tranmitter, have walls and a roof and our components are within shouting distance of each other, is a coax not sufficient for all home audio applications? Do you have some data that a twisted pair is an improvement in certain situations?


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