The review comments on Amazon for the Audio Quest K2 speaker cable are
very entertaining in the most:
http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-K2-terminated-speaker-cable/product-reviews/B000J36XR2/
Certainly more interesting than some dubious pseudo-expert 'review'....
- Neil
On 7/28/2011 1:03 PM, Robert Greene wrote:
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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