opaqueice;151350 Wrote: > Look at it this way - we know a tremendous amount about cables. (FYI > there is no such thing as a dialectric - if you mean dielectric, that > is the opposite of a conductor, and if it formed in your interconnects > or speaker cables it would have a rather drastic and unsubtle effect on > the sound. Fortunately for electronics it does not.) We know very well > how electrons propagate down cables, we have literally billions of > electronic devices behaving in precisely predictable ways all the time > everywhere in the world - it's hard to think of anything we understand > BETTER. And in all of that, there is not a shred of scientific > evidence or theory, at least to my knowledge (which is considerable - > I'm a physicist), which indicates that any such phenomenon exists. I > can say with total condidence that if cable burn-in happens it must be > a miniscule effect. > > On the other hand while we understand very little about how the human > ear and brain interact, we know for a fact that the placebo effect and > perception adaptation effects exist (and are extremely strong). > > So which is more plausible - something going against decades of > scientific knowledge, experience, experiments, expertise, and the laws > of nature, or something in total accord with common sense and many many > experiments in medicine and psychology and the study of human > perception. You decide.
What do you mean by dielectric "forming"? It is there, all right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29025 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
