ralphpnj wrote: > Sometime around 1980 the high end audio discovered that the once lowly > cable could be magically transformed in a glorious cash cow, a cash cow > that never stopped giving. Of course even back then there were many > people who pointed out the so called "science" behind expensive cables > was not being used correctly, i.e. that once the proper cables were > installed in a given audio system any further cable upgrades were just > not worthwhile, but the money was just too good to ignore and so the > real science was replaced with glossy ads filled with guys in white lab > coats, pretty women and "white papers" filled with pseudo science. > > Then came digital, which BY DESIGN does not behave the same as analog, > especially when it comes to cables but, as stated above, the "cable" > money was just too good to ignore and so more pseudo science was cooked > up to justify spending money on non-existent "problems". > > So now we have a high end audio world that is almost completely filled > with worthless pseudo science and which has been feeding audiophiles > this nonsense for quite some time. However the money is still too good > and so the nonsense just continues to snowball, growing ever bigger with > more and more misinformation. A truly sad state of affairs.
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