Oh Schlitz

[Ixnay]

I've been encountering the story lately about how Schiltz was America's best and best selling beer.
And then the suits made a change in the recipe that "nobody would notice". Because if you're selling the best-selling product in America, of course you want to change it to something else.
Of course, sales crashed and the company pretty much went out of business.

I think about this when I read about cable deniers, or cable "reviewers" who measure insignificant parameters. They're sure that there's no difference. Wire is wire. Nobody would notice.

Now, people aren't as particular about their hi-fi's as they are about their beer, but I think that there's some kind of observation that could be made here.

 

[Morla]

I mean the difference on the one side is human perception(taste) and on the other side measureable (non-human) insignificance. So that's comparing two totally different things in other words you describe a fallacy cable "tester" fall for

 

[Beave]

Step away from the crack pipe!

 

[egellings]

With wire used for living room analog audio purposes, R, L, and C completely characterize it. There's no magic; it's just electrical engineering. Anything else is Kay-Bull.

 

[Speedskater]

With the beer, the label was the same, but the taste was different.
With the cable, the label was different, but the sound was the same.