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putting a price on the priceless.

Given that reviews are descriptions of internal experiences, we cannot asign any scale of logical increase in effect just because a given device is more complex. We cannot asign any scale at all. The reviewer can, but we cannot.

And a description of an aural experience cannot be dismissed as exageration by someone who has not experienced it. This is a self evident truth. We have no grounds upon which to base such a critisism. It is understandable that audible changes in a system with which a listener is intimately familiar with would be pretty obvious. Probably stand out like a whale in the desert. All the listener is trying to do is relay this effect. He could be deliberately exagerating or even outright lying, but we have no way of knowing that. All we can do is take his report at face value. If the report describes sonic attributes that we want in our system, we may take a listen to the cable ourselves. If we hear similar improvements, we may buy the cable. If not, we don't. In the end, the review, exagerated, false or accurate as it may be, has only benefited us. Either it showed us a cable that makes our system sound better or it showed us a cable that we need to avoid. A win win prospect if ever there was one.

Thanks,
Rob

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