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Two questions to make you mad.

#1 Why is it that the worlds most sophisticated and accurate machine the (ASML) TWINSCAN NXE:3600D doesn’t use special AC or signal cables to make 3nm semiconductors. Audiophiles need special cables for accuracy?

#2 Why is it that you can always tell when a piano is playing live, or even an electric guitar is playing live 2 houses away directly into an amp through walls and windows?

In the 1960s Electro Voice announced that their speakers could reproduce exactly accurate sounds, many believed them.

We are fooling ourselves, our hobby is full of lies and we can’t even face facts.

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I can stand on the streets of Savannah and listen to live musicians and imagine that I am in front of my stereo. I can sit in front of my stereo and imagine that I am at a live concert. I think it is all due to my special cables- or I’m too old and decrepit to no longer know the difference...

Thomas Edison started marketing his new phonograph in 1916 by having a live singer stand next to his phonograph on stage. He would task the audience with guessing if the singing was live or the recording. (No mention if he used special cables.) Over a hundred years later and we are still trying to find that magic.

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One could argue that rain is just excessive humidity, therefore an umbrella is not necessary. 
 

Deniers can rationalize all they want that cables do not or should not matter but they do. 

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