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In Reply to: So often, sound cannot be proven scienfically, let alone DBTs. posted by cheap-Jack on January 22, 2007 at 12:46:45:
cj: ""
Vendors' offers, snake oils or not, once they are in the right direction of scienftic principles, deserve our consideration with open minds.""Anecdotal accounts of audibility deserve the consideration. Explanations without scientific foundation deserve only scrutiny. If the explanation wanders out of reality at the jump, it deserves only to be trashed, as acceptance of ridiculous explanations leads us away from reality.
For example, the use of a hall probe to detect the external magnetic field of a wire, while impressive to the layman, does nothing to float my boat.. The external magnetic field of a wire pair is easily calculated out ten decimal places, and has been for half a century now. Mention of a hall probe is floobydust, meant to impress.
Once the actual mag field is understood, then the next thing I see..the recommendation to keep the second wire pair a foot away, becomes just trivially silly. Twisting one of them negates that, as does using a star quad configuration correctly, where the magnetic fields are orthogonal and not coupling.
The explanation given is useless, and in fact is worse than that, as it misleads. (not the consumer, they don't really know enough of this tech garbage to care, but for V-man himself, it eliminates the forward path).
cj: ""
I go for Vandersteen's explanation of bi-wring can reduce the hi/lo audio frequency intermoduation along the same common conductors.
His explanation, scientifically PROVEN or not, could be a matter of time. Who can definetely say no todate?""His explanation of fields and interaction with the wires is easily proven incorrect, even by simple thought experiments. The explanation only serves to redirect analysis away from what is really going on. So I can easily say it is incorrect.
cj: ""
I've proven this is true to many audiophiles' golden ears, including my rusted pair, with my own speaker systems along with quite a few
expensive brandname makes which I upgraded from single-wired to bi-wired & tri-wired in these years. Bi-wiring or tri-wiring sound better than single wiring. This is my hands-on experience""I value the anecdotal experience and accounts of people such as yourself far more than I do a scientifically unsupported and misguided "tech note" or "white paper". Those are the bane to advancement.
Cheers, John
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- Correct scientific audio eval testing would help. - jneutron 13:31:42 01/22/07 (0)
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