Ready, set, comment! Speaker cables don’t make a difference?

That was 15 mins of my life that I won't get back

Here's my .02 cents

In this case Gene is actually, and to use his term, the snake oil salesman

And all his happy responders are the sheep he's leading right off the cliff

But he has one feeble arguement in this video that is actually right so we can't technically call BS here

Hear me out before ripping me a new one....

He measures the 3 cables and says the output in DB between them is so minute we can't possibly hear an audible difference

Which is true......but

What he's measuring, output DB, is a capability of the electronics not the cables and this is where we get to call BS on Gene and his sheep

So of course most any coat hanger can deliver the capabilities the electronics are designed to

In essence he's telling us spending money on cables will not playback any louder, no arguement

Again a design limitation of the electronics, not the cable

What he fails to compare, this is where his snake oil salesman shines

We don't invest in the cables with ANY expectation that our systems will play louder

What we get and expect is a broader dynamic range of the same material we've been playing for years, a more natural sound, vocals sound closer to the microphone, all of a sudden there's a casenet percussion that you've never heard, you can hear Jimmy Page drop the pick in The Rain Song on his Martin acoustic and finish the song finger picking, in a a capella you can now hear the vocalist inhale and take a breath etc etc

Adding a new cable weather it be speaker, IC or power doesn't play louder but it provides us much more musical information than we'll get using spooled cable or even Monster

One of the great pleasure for me when making a cable enhancement, vibration improvement, power improvement, it's allows me to hear the same tried and true music better and more complete to what the artist intended and was feeling.  It expands enjoyment past the music and rings me closer to the art

It's not the first time a heard the song but it's damn sure the first time I've heard it delivered with the additional enhancements and extensions

So each little tweak is almost an opportunity to enjoy the same material for the first time

Again guys just my .02 cents and that's another 20 mins of my life that I won't get back

Happy listening and as always enjoy the journey

While a tired subject and well past ODing on analysis paralysis, what's important here extends beyond the subject matter itself and more about the abundance of irresponsible misinformation

We've got various paper tigers and YouTube alleged industry experts, that are somewhere between an audiophile and journalist, spewing their spin and shaping opinions and purchases of the uninformed with their misinformation

It's difficult to tell how much is an intentional attempt to mislead the general public and how much is something they just don't know

In all cases, we just don't know, what we don't - myself included

When you don't know, I'm quick to offer up the get out of jail free card but when you're intentionally being misleading it's import for those of us that do know the difference to call BS

In Gene's case, my guess is he knows the difference and is thus intentionally misleading the uninformed with irresponsible misinformation

And this where I want to call BS on Gene's, self proclaimed 'once and for all debunking the myth with armed to the teeth measurements'

What a crock of poo

I will provide my .02 cents in a follow up post, but I'm certain it will only be review for all of you that know the difference and thus will not waste anymore of your valuable time further extending this post