I have stayed out of this thread for the sole reason that it can not be concluded. I just read through all of the above posts and as always find it quite fun to see the holes we dig. If anyone can say with a straight face they here no difference between cables and wires on a high definition system then I believe they are deaf or liars. If you require the scientific proof, first in my opinion that alone makes for a sad audiophile but secondly means the enjoyment of audio is in the numbers and not the listening. If you must have proof, please read my post from 03/08/01 in "Blind Listening Tests???? I believe this is indeed proof of this unsolvable problem and a good description of how seriously I tend to take the scientific proof offered on this site. High end audio for me is about the quality of sound reproduction, not the science of audio! Thank-you and have a good read, J.D.
Speaker wire is it science or psychology
I have had the pleasure of working with several audio design engineers. Audio has been both a hobby and occupation for them. I know the engineer that taught Bob Carver how a transistor works. He keeps a file on silly HiFi fads. He like my other friends considers exotic speaker wire to be non-sense. What do you think? Does anyone have any nummeric or even theoretical information that defends the position that speaker wires sound different? I'm talking real science not just saying buzz words like dialectric, skin effect capacitance or inductance.