A challenge to the "measurement" camp


I’ve watched some of his video and I actually agree on some of what he said,
but he seems too confident on his insistence on measurement. For those
who expound on the merits of blind test and measurement, why not turn
the table upside down?

Why not do a blind test of measurement? That is I will supply all the measurement
you want, can you tell me which is a better product?

For example, if I have a set of cable, and a set of measurement for each
individual cable, can you tell me which is the best cable based on measurement
alone? I will supply all the measurement you want.
After all, that is what you’re after right? Objective result and not subjective
listening test.

Fast forward to 8:15 mark where he keeps ranting about listening test
without measurement.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=katmUM-Xelw

By the way, is he getting paid by Belden?  Because he keeps talking about it
and how well it measures.  I've had some BlueJean cables and they can easily
bettered by some decent cables.  
andy2

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@geoffkait
Could the effect known as gravity, in fact be the observation of an object moving at an accelerated rate into a Spacetime where time is slower?
@geoffkait
Some time ago I watched a compelling documentary where after showing the differences in time from outer space, and different points on Earth.
Then the discussion went into gravitational time dilation.

Gravity slows the passage of time similar to how the passage of time is changed under special relativity, general relativity predicts that massive objects will also dilate time. The more massive the object, the more noticeable the effect.

The newer idea is that by moving through space towards a significantly large mass, that time slows approaching the large mass, I don’t know the mathematical formula, but they showed it in the documentary. The way I understood it, it was as if falling from where time moved more rapidly to where time slowed down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC0s6KqQz3g

Thought this might be of interest, and yeah something about speaker wires that is measurable, dead easy to measure.

Enjoy!
@andy2 - did you manage to see the video about speaker cables absorbing RFI ?? Pretty good information.

To be clear, the speaker wires can convert radio waves into electrical energy = noise.

The meter on the tuner is a measurement device!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC0s6KqQz3g
@roberttdid - so minute differences in resitance and RFI rejection are not indicators of anything that audibly effects a speaker cable, what would you as an engineer say would be measurable indicators to look for in a speaker cable?

Does capacitance have any bearing on sound quality?

I am working on the premise that physics is pretty uniform, and that if we don’t know what to measure and how to measure the most important attributes of for example speaker cables - the mystery exists to be discovered. The answers are there, and in time will be as uncontested as the spherical like shape of the World (oh crap, those darned Flat Earthers).

I am really surprised that people accidentally come across really excellent sounding cable formulas that have no common scientific basis?