Interesting commentary from a moderator at head-fi.org: http://www.head-fi.org/t/190566/blind-cable-taste-test-results/495#post_2654121
"Does anyone ever wonder why cable manufacturers and merchants don't ever test their own products? Or maybe they have, but don't tell the public. Think about it. If you had a multimillion dollar company and a vocal group was calling your product snakeoil, wouldn't you want to do something about it? The manufacturers absolutely know they have critics, yet they do nothing. Why is this? Wouldn't any reasonable person want to put an end to the controversy? If you were a cable manufacturer, wouldn't you also want conclusive tests to show your product to be superior to the competition? Look at what Intel and AMD do to each other. Why don't Nordost and Cardas, for example, do the same? If they could, it would be a huge sales advantage over the other, right? And speaking of sales, conclusive testing would mean that the skeptics would probably end up buying their products. Meaning, of course, higher sales. They want increased sales, right? But they don't do this. All you get are testimonials. Just like quack medicine. Also, notice how carefully worded their advertising is. It is always just shy of being on the hook for false and deceptive advertising. Why is this? Again, if you ran the company, wouldn't you want to be absolutely certain that your product was best and decisively address that in advertising?" -- Ron Olsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Olsen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9233 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93111 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
