In his masterpiece, Leo Beranek came up with what is commonly referred to as Beranek's law. It is intended to warn loudpeaker designers from drinking their own Kool-Aid.
"It has been remarked that if one selects his own components, builds his own enclosure, and is convinced he has made a wise choice of design, then his own loudspeaker sounds better to him than does anyone else's loudspeaker. In this case, the frequency response of the loudspeaker seems to play only a minor part in forming a person's opinion." L.L. Beranek, Acoustics (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1954), p.208. Perhaps the situation also pertains to cables and cable designers? Perhaps some cables sound different than other. Do they sound better? Worse? Does it have to sound "better" in order to justify 7k or does "sounds funny" also warrants a high tag? What does "better" sound like? I don't know why the Pear manufacturer doesn't just do a blind AB-ing test and take the million. Results can't be contested, it is cheap and there are many AES researchers who can manage such a test. Should be the easiest thing to do... -al -- assafl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ assafl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38902 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
