"John Larkin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:25:15 -0500, flipper wrote:
To make matters worse, human hearing, and perception in general, is
adaptive so we get 'acclimated' to things.
In the audio world, that's called "burn-in."

You have to be sure to orient the speaker cables the correct way and color the
edges of your CDs with a green marker as well. :-)

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Malcolm Steward is, I think, going to forever regret reviewing a hard drive
(SATA) cable and claiming it improved the sound quality of his
network-attached hard drive serving up audio files:
http://www.ultrahighendforum.com/vie...t=2754&start=0 . Quoting:

"My only guess is that the Super SATAs reject interference significantly
better than the standard cables and in so doing lower the noise floor
revealing greater low-level musical detail and presentational improvements in
the soundstage and the 'air' around instruments.

The most marked and worthwhile difference, I felt, was in the increased
naturalness in both the sound of instruments and voices, which seemed more
organic, human and less 'electronic', and in the music's rhythmical
progression, which was also more natural and had the realistic ebb and flow
that musicians exhibit when playing live. In short, recordings sounded more
like musical performances then recordings.

The photo here shows the original, Generation 1 cable but there is now a more
advanced, wider bandwidth Generation 2 version that is soon going to be
available from the same American manufacturer. They will, of course, be more
expensive than 'ordinary' SATA cables - the red and grey insulated flat cables
that come free with hard disks or sell for around £2.99. But their superior
performance easily justifies the extra expense."

He's been quite roundly criticized for this nonsense and pretty quickly pulled
the article from his web site!

---Joel