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In Reply to: Re: low end digital cables sufficient? posted by Jon Risch on October 4, 2005 at 19:59:10:
Speaking of mastering studios, digital cables, and blind testing...(see link below)
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Blind Testing
Q.) Has Cardas ever engaged in any blind testing of its cables?
A.) Sure in the early days many, but now days there is so much product in the field and so much agreement on the character of various cables that setting up a double blind would seem silly to most high-end fanatics. However, the recording industry is very cautious and guarded about changes because the stakes are quite high, so a few years ago there was a double blind test done by what is I suppose the top mastering facility in the world, Grundman Mastering. The type of test is one often used in the industry to sort things out. The reason for the test was not to determine whether or not cables sounded different, that was already a given, the tests were to determine which cable sounded best and why.
In this test new mastering facilities were being built in the US and in Japan and cables were requested from all the leading suppliers from Belden to Transparent. Various cuts were mastered to CD changing only the cables. The CD's were sent to a panel of engineers and others and the results tabulated. None of the listeners knew what the difference was between the cuts. The results were easily quantifiable. I think it took a year to complete all the comparisons, in the end, two of the many cables compared proved profoundly superior to the rest. Grundman is now wired with Cardas Neutral Reference. - George
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Grundman Mastering is *the* big dog mastering facility in LA. Bernie is *not* hoodwinked by "cable myths" (BTW, the studio's monitoring system sounds killer, as I've heard it as a client).
See the following link's, "Blind Testing", section:
- http://www.cardas.com/content.php?area=faqs&content_id=23&pagestring=System+Set+Up (Open in New Window)
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- Speaking of mastering studios, digital cables, and blind testing... - Duster 15:45:40 10/05/05 (0)
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