Ok so I have some mixed feelings on this whole cable thing, I have decent cables under $100 per cable/pair or half that price. I have a lot of heartburn with all this smoke and mirrors routine for ultra expensive audio cables and now power cables are the flavor of the day.
I have been to CES the last four years and have seen and listened to some amazing gear, and talked to the designers and owners of the companies. I get the The Absolute Sound, Stereo review and read like a fiend about audio on the internet. I have a decent audio system. I truly love high end audio. I write this to let everyone know I have some idea of the industry as a whole. Ok so when cables or equipment are reviewed, there are some prerequisites like you will advertise with the publication, as is seen with that companies who's equipment was just reviewed ad on the next page probably half the time. Coincedence? Things that make you go Hmmmm?! Also the reviewer should have to state a few facts besides what is his test gear that he is employing this test component or cable into, like does he live in an apartment(almost always yes!).Which leads me to the next disclosure, size of room that gear is in. The enviroment of the review has a high possibility of being terrible. But I guess as long as he has a $1700 Shunyata power chord it will magically overcome all this. And finally one of the biggest disclosures these audio reviewers should have to disclose is a recent hearing test to show where their hearing is lacking, if it is. I mean Kal Ruben is how old? In your fifty's your upper frequency hearing loss can drop down to somewhere below 10,000 hz. If we knew the reviewer lived in a little crappy apartment with a tiny listening room with a flawed apartment wiring in San Francisco or L.A., and has flawed hearing(ie hearing test). How much weight would that review hold for the majority. No reviewer wants a blind a/b comparison there is nothing monitarily to gain for anyone except the buyer. I am saying maybe we should think for ourselves, and not be told what we should like from someone who might not have the creditionals -- AngorWatts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AngorWatts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11449 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
