On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:57:17 -0600, Swingman wrote:

On 2/3/2012 12:46 PM, dpb wrote:
On 2/3/2012 12:07 PM, Swingman wrote:
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What is getting to your ear, including overtones and harmonics, can
definitely be degraded by that cable.

Perhaps I misunderstood your context ... or you misunderstood mine?

No.

Yes

I'm saying that in the audible range there's not going to be enough
degradation owing to the wire chosen for audio cable that one is going
to be able to measure it, what more hear it audibly.

I'm saying ... do a side by side comparison with fifty feet of electric
extension cord, and ten feet of a high quality audio cable, to a good
set of speakers and tell me most listeners, and particularly a trained
one, will not hear the difference.

Having watched people in stores do audio comparisons many times
before, I'll bet the vast majority of people wouldn't be able to tell
a nasty (10% THD) signal from a clean (0.01% THD) signal thru good or
bad speakers with either cable. /cynicism


My ears are 69 years old, but I'd lay a wager any day that I could still
accurately AB the difference, with familiar content in a familiar
environment.

Good for you.
Point: Most people don't -care- to discern even if they could do so.

Listen to the levels and distortions of car audio every time you're on
the street. It will tell you a lot. That people allow themselves to be
bombarded by Muzak in elevators and beeps from computer games all
these years should tell you some more. (Egad!)

--
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
-- Thomas Jefferson