Those were tested here IIRCI'll see your claim and raise you this...
Still pretty sad about this.
What would be the point?Nice review, i'm certainly a sceptic when it comes to cables, but may i ask, did you do any listening tests?
I don't mean to sound snarky (well... maybe a little), but your question is sort of like being told that based on the chemical properties of cyanide, if you put it in the Kool Aid and drink it, it will kill you, and you reply, "Yes. You're probably right. But did you actually drink it to find out?"Nice review, i'm certainly a sceptic when it comes to cables, but may i ask, did you do any listening tests?
The oxidized spot issue is of utmost interest to me and I will appreciate any further development if you please, regarding that 0.1 ohm increase and it's effect.I slid my meter over the terminations and whenever it hit an oxidized spot, it would add about 0.1 ohm of resistance! Both the spade and banana ends had this problem. Not good.
Even with an infinite amount of time, this would be a massive waste of it.Nice review, i'm certainly a sceptic when it comes to cables, but may i ask, did you do any listening tests?
Just through pure curiosity. As i said i'm on the side of speaker cables making little to no difference. but i'm very curious why so many trained ears say that they are able to hear the difference?What would be the point?
Tat's fair enough and like i have stated i'm a real skeptic when it comes to speaker cables. But let's take this scenario. if some cables were somehow able to produce better imaging or soundstage, would that be measurable?I don't mean to sound snarky (well... maybe a little), but your question is sort of like being told that based on the chemical properties of cyanide, if you put it in the Kool Aid and drink it, it will kill you, and you reply, "Yes. You're probably right. But did you actually drink it to find out?"
Pycoaucstics and confirmation biases, expectation biases and more.Just through pure curiosity. As i said i'm on the side of speaker cables making little to no difference. but i'm very curious why so many trained ears say that they are able to hear the difference?
What i don't understand is even if they did make a small amont of difference, why would people invest thousands on them when surely the sensible thing would be to invest the that money into better speakers or amplification, or even room treatment?Pycoaucstics and confirmation biases, expectation biases and more.
Blind testing where you don't know what is what would be required here.
Think of blind wine testing revealing very interesting realities or experiments in simply changing the label and price of the same wine and many(not all) folks get fooled(create an experience of value in their mind).
Simply because they are getting paid to say and make incredible claims that this improves the sound! Look no further than the ads that fill the spaces of their website/channels and you have all the evidence you need.Just through pure curiosity. As i said i'm on the side of speaker cables making little to no difference. but i'm very curious why so many trained ears say that they are able to hear the difference?
The coat hanger test. It has been revived.I wonder, Have there been any tests done with let's say the shittest cable possible and then compared with a set of reasonably priced speakers cables, or does every single speaker cable messure the same regardless of price and quality?
Those are repurposed model railroad trestles.I hope you raised them from the surface of your desk with Audioquest Fog Cable Lifters otherwise your test is flawed
Presumably the 72 Volt supply was being used to stress the cable’s dielectric?Yes, the bias box was on and running. I didn't measure the cable length but was about 8 feet. Due to oxidation of the terminals, I gave up on measuring the cable resistance. Finally, I used the cable pair as balanced connection for frequency response.