Re: Expensive cable!

[Lewis Gardner <lgardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Green wrote:

>>>But I did hear a difference.
>>
>>I have a strong suspicion that if the changes had been made without your
>>knowledge and participation (or had not been made, but you were told
>>they were), you would have found it considerably *more* difficult to
>>hear any difference. Impossible, even.
>
> While your point is well taken, it's very likely there was a difference.
> Unless that SMF was pulling the old "Circuit City" trick of having much more
> expensive speakers accidentally also be switched on when you ask to listen
> to the sale price speakers, there's a very good chance that there was a
> substantial, detectable difference in the ability to reproduce atypical
> program material ( i.e. "non-musical" sounds).

For me the key was "non-musical" sounds. Even though we played some
classical samples I could not hear a difference. It could be that my
ears are not "developed" enough but I do hear the bus on The Trinity
Sessions.

No tricks. Just the two of us and equipment. No switching devices were
used. When speakers were switched we physically moved the speakers in
and out of position and swapped wires. This did not allow AB testing but
what we were listening for was the ability to hear additional background
sounds like distant birds and insects. You either heard them, didn't
hear them or heard something but couldn't make it out.


> All that said, I believe the *worst* place to start trying to improve your
> sound quality is with horribly overpriced and overhyped Monster cables.

The cables are the worst place to start.