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RE: Objective Measurement Results for Cables
Posted by andy19191 on October 1, 2007 at 08:37:56:
> Unfortunately without controlled listening tests it's impossible to know
> which of the effects they demonstrate are audible, or even which are the
> most important.
Not at all if the measurements are sufficient. For example, if the authors labelled the y axis for the plots that curiously have the label "dB" but no numbers with, say, 1.0x10-6, 2.0x10-6,... would the effect of the different cables be above or below the threshold of audibility?
The point of science is to replace having to perform an experiment to find out something with scientific knowledge which can be used to predict the outcome of said experiment. Your statement implies this cannot be done for cables at audio frequencies and many people including myself would disagree for those cases where the size of the change is either well below or well above the expected threshold of audibility. When it is near the threshold then there may be a case for experimentation.