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Has Anyone Criticized The Choice Of Your Cables?

Has anyone, either a dealer or an experienced friend come over to your place and provide some constructive(or negative) critism to the choice of cables in your system? If yes, how would you deal with it? Recently I have a guy who came over and he was pretty vocal on the cables in my system. Although the choice of words were quite unpleasant, I just brushed him off in a friendly manner since I am an open-minded person. I was just wondering how one would react in these kind of situations.
ryder

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mrtennis
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i sometimes get worried if too many people like the sound of my stereo system.
if i get criticism, i figure i'm ok. let them criticize my choice of cable. it doesn't affect me one way or another.

there is a way to humor people who criticize. here is what i say:

"thank you for your kind words".
mrtennis
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it's kind of a silly question to ask. it is almost impossible to determine the sound of cable when listening to a stereo system.

a better question would be:

has anyone criticized your stereo system ?

why bring up the obvious ? it is unimportant whether one's material things are criticized. there are more important things in life.
mrtennis
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why get so exercised over criticism ? it's mind over matter when someone criticizes your cable or your entire stereo system. if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
mrtennis
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hi ryder:

my point is that it is not worth being concerned over criticism of material things.

it is also a fact that it is difficult to evaluate the contribution of cable to the overall sound of a stereo system. there are too many vriables.

you have not disputed the bases of my arguements.

i rest my case.
mrtennis
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hi ryder:

again, you have made my case. if one criticizes, without a sound basis, ignore it. when you can't tell what's going on, there is no sound basis to criticize. this will not stop people from criticizing anything.

what am i missing ?
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