ohnonotagain
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Life is full of opportunities to learn. A younger me would have gone in with the approach of "so what's it doing to the ones and zeroes to remove the harshness, then?" which probably explains why I didn't have many friends whereas older and wiser me, still just as much an objectivist, would see it as a chance to explore topics like psychoacoustics and how our ears work with them some other day. The difference your friend heard (it exists in his mind, remember) could come from his ears adjusting to the volume of the music if he tested the old cable then switched it out; it could come from a salesman's claims or something written on the box; it could just be that the new cable feels and looks nice; or maybe it's one of our brain's weaknesses like confirmation bias. Or, of course, since I'm a rank amateur on this subject, it could be something completely different.Today a friend of mine reach out and told me that he got a new silver USB C to USB C, and claimed it brings a lot of clarity to the sound. the harshness he had before was gone.
If I hadn't been on ASR, it was probably fine for me. But now it is so painful to read what he says
The psychology around purchases is science too, and your friend getting the good feeling of buying something and tweaking their system from a $50 cable is arguably better than them spending thousands on changing out a CD transport. Maybe that's something of a silver lining for you?
Jumping straight to a blind test as some suggetsed could have been a bit confrontational - it's implying "I don't believe you". Explore things together and maybe your friend will want to try blind testing for his next purchase.