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RE: Logically you can only reject an hypothesis not get a positive result.

This debate always drives me up the wall. It's not a question of "proving" things. In science you don't prove things, you accumulate evidence for theories. Sometimes a theory turns out to be just wrong, but much more often it turns out to be basically correct (otherwise it wouldn't have lasted long), but more complex or of more limited applicability than had been believed.

No one is saying that there is never any difference between cables. If you cut one with wire cutters you'll hear the difference. So no one is saying that - it's just not that simple. However many people believe that well-designed cables of reasonable lengths are very hard to distinguish by listening, particularly once you level match, and that much of what is said in the audiophile press about cables is nonsense fueled by expectation bias and the need to sell stuff.

That's a nuanced position, it's not black or white, and it will never be "proven" or "dis-proven". However it may come to be accepted as extremely probable because it is in accord with many long-lasting and well-supported theories (of psychoacoustics, electrical engineering, etc.), and because of a lack of evidence to the contrary.

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