Cable Snake Oil Antidote

Interesting article. My takeaway is that cables can sound different, but not very much (fractions of a dB). And if a cable sounds very different, it is probably doing something fairly radical to the signal, which personally, is not my thing. 

In fact, Peter was right all ten times. Guess who is the troll.

Peter’s article seems correct to me, though it is a bit excessively emphatic in some of its points. 

phomchick"Peter’s article seems correct to me, though it is a bit excessively emphatic in some of its points."

And yet their is no proofs that is the problem with the naysayers and self-proclaimed objectivists the burden of "proofs" always fall to a party other than themselves and that is what is so strange about they're claims!

I'm not sure I follow this exactly, but if you are saying that the naysayers never have proof for their doubts, then:

1. You can never prove a negative
2. If you are making unusual or extraordinary claims, the burden of proof rests with you. That should be obvious.
   
3. If you want to prove to me that $1,000 AC power cords sound better, you have to do two things: a) come up with a believable explanation of why it should sound better, and b) prove that you and others can reliably tell the difference with an A/B/X test.

If this was not what you were saying, I apologize.

Uh, but the two states are not (rpt not) accurately decoded. Not completely accurately, anyway. That’s why the Green Pen, painting CD tray and CD Treatments and vibration isolation and vibration control improve the sound.

Sorry, not true. CDs include error correction encoding and decoding to ensure that the 1s and 0s are accurately read. Green pens and anti vibration tweaks on CDs and players are a complete waste of time and money.

There is some math in this article, it may be over your head:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction

The result is a CIRC that can completely correct error bursts up to 4000 bits, or about 2.5 mm on the disc surface. This code is so strong that most CD playback errors are almost certainly caused by tracking errors that cause the laser to jump track, not by uncorrectable error bursts.