All of this arises in my view from two simple things:
1 People in audio do not check things double blind
and
2 People in audio do not normalize things for frequency response
and do not do precision measurements of frequency response.
Point 1 is obvious. About point 2: Small shifts in frequency response
occur for a wide variety of reasons, cables among them. If the shifts
are indeed small, down near the 0.1 dB threshold(approximately), then the
changes heard are not always of the overt tonal nature--brighter, more or
less bass, nore or less midrange forward and so on--but are often of
the nature of things like "transparency" and other poetic and imprecise
audiophile words. So one could in fact end up hearing an improvement--or
what could seem like an improvement--from changing cables, simply
because there was a microshift in frequency response.
No sensible person would pay a lot of money to get such a micro-shift in
frequency response. But if one did not KNOW that that was what it was,
I suppose a certain kind of person might be inclined to pay a lot of
money for "increased transparency". Words count. A trivial thing like
a tiny lift around 6k can be made nontrivial to some people by giving
it an impressive name, like transparency.
I have heard otherwise sensible people claim that transaparency is an
independent thing, outside the realm of ordinary audio measurements and
phenomena. This is of course nonsense. But it is a kind of nonsense that
propagates all too readily among people who do not understand at all how
audio works but who have spent a lot of time listening to it.
Robert
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Danny McCarty wrote:
Funny, I read the company's name as "Synthetic Research". Much more appropriate.
On Jul 27, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Paul Doornbusch wrote:
The shock, and potentially the most snake-oil, could be from the $40,000 for
these Galileo speaker cables (poor old Galileo probably does not even get any
royalties from them using his esteemed name):
http://www.synergisticresearch.com/galileo-system/galileo-system-speaker-cable/
reviewed here
http://www.avguide.com/review/synergistic-research-galileo-cable-and-interconnect-tas-210
my brother pointed this out to me, coincidentally, on Monday.
p.
A few surprising shocks ought to be enough to shake the more reticent ones
loose. After that, just leave the negative pole connected on the upper end, and
you'll have a fresh start in the morning. The electrons will thank you too!
havent you heard of tired electron distortion ? (TID). the electrons in speaker
wire get tired moving back and forth and not going anywhere. the solution is to
disconnect the speaker every few hours connect a battery one side and short the
other, so all the old electrons can be flushed out (i think i read this in the
wireless world)
Alternatively you can have spare cables, and slowly drain them over night in an
upright position.
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