Cable curmudgeon


I'm not an 'audiophile" but I like to think I have a good ear having been a professional musician (principal wind player in major symphony orchestras) for 50 years. A number of years ago going into an excellent audio equipment store I talked with, what seemed, a knowledgeable salesman.  Being a musician experienced in audio systems but not expert on all the equipment out there I had some questions concerning high (over-priced?) end cables. The salesman assured there was an audible differencet in a demo room switching back and forth etc.  After a few minutes I noticed the sound coming out of only one channel.  He complemented me on my "good ear."  Hmmm? A few years later when setting up my home system I investigated speaker cables. Two sets of Monster, stranded standard cable, solid core copper (used for alarm system) attached with like connecters. There was a difference.  However, not in terms of better or worse: bass and treble were acceptable as was clarity loud and soft.  Differences were esthetic- like asking "whose the best tenor" (I like Plácido).  Now I know as a musician used to live (i.e. un-amplified) music that all I hear coming out of a loud speaker is perforce ersatz.  But most everything today comes out of a loud speaker whether a rock concert or a hi-fi system so perhaps my opinion is curmudgeonly. But, for me, spending oodles of money on hyped cables, well... I  liked the solid core for my alarm system- still do.

 

exflute

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It’s.. like... a cadre of strongly opposed street fighters moving from bar to bar, trying to wreak havoc on each other whenever and wherever they can, under some false pretense, at the drop of a hat ---while they trash establishment after establishment.

 

if they can’t get you through working in integrity, as that is clearly not working...

they’ll commit to a grinding down in repetitive lunacy.

Anything at all for their war effort... for the ill thought out and anti-intelligence, anti-thinking, anti-invention and anti-’upward, forward’ crew.

They’ll do anything to press their opinions and incapacitates upon all others, out of FOMO on the capacities scale of human skill sets and intellect. I just warned y’all about this in another thread. They just don’t understand and they will commit to anything, anything at all (in the repetitive insistent intrinsically blind fondling of their own egos), to make their thoughts into your reality.

No choice, really, as one’s capacity to discern and think, imagine, extrapolate, etc... and thus hear... threatens their future - threatens it...simply via existing.

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One can explain to a person why they can't and are not hearing such things, and do it in the kindest most humane way possible... but every inch, word and moment of that explanation will be hated, hated to the very core, on the instinctual level. Human nature.

So they can't and won't listen, it's simply not possible..

The forum requires additional moderation, for the sake of the forum, it's members, and the continuance of the fundamental intent and direction desired in any business model associated with it.

As the contrary blind grind will NEVER give in. Not in this life - or the next.

It requires a permanent and enforced high bar, that may be required to be continually vigilant, for the foreseeable future.

Absolutely not, and that does not need to be said. From what I can see, you appear to be trying to put thoughts and words in my mouth, that I am not thinking or saying.

The idea is to use truth, integrity, discussion, and argument to get to the bottom of things.

This requires the various parties involved to be living in a form of integrity and connectivity to the problems under discussion, in a way that shows their capacities to understand the fundamentals of the question AND to act in full and proper relatable integrity to the entire complex situation.

What we have, is a beleaguered group of people who do desire to act this way. to do things with integrity...., regarding this complex scenario.

This group is being attacked relentlessly, by a non stop blind and blinkered and immoral attack, in a way that is designed to use the systems integrity - to destroy the system and the people in it...

Envisage a person strapped via duct tape with crying babies as armour, and a pair of magnums, one in each hand...all while screaming "save the babies!", as he blows holes in anyone who disagrees with him.... (all of current western politics is now seemingly built of out this exact psychological gaming scenario)

It’s rigged, an engineered game of psychology and it’s silent weaponization...and has nothing to do with proper behavior or integrity.

Just a general angry note:

"Hundreds if not thousands of discoveries in just the last few years" (neural research) This one is about how a memory is formed in what amounts to, in the experiments and measurement methodology..one hundred and seventeen different locations, in just a rat brain.

So, someone is gonna come along, spouting crap about measurement methodology from 100 years ago like it is some sort of permanent dogmatic bible of truth....... and tell me how I hear --- and how well I hear?

The reality is that science is moving so fast that the peak specialists in a given field cannot hope to ever keep up with the new discoveries in their own field.

To re-iterate, the fastest moving, most intelligent, most published, most up to date, hardest working people in a given high science, cannot and are not keeping up with the pace of discovery and change ----in their own fields.

Where... someone, some jackass on a forum...wants to tell me how I hear and that 100 year old methods of measurement, connected to this situation in cables and hearing, is somehow relevant..core..and utterly decisive and correct.. and disarms and dismisses what hundreds of thousands of audiophiles, if not MILLIONS (over the years) say about the sound of cables.

That such hair brained illiteracy can project itself in this world only speaks well of kind human tolerance.