Once again logic fails a reviewer:
So all this time with his fancy
PS Audio DS DAC and all, he had a flat center image prior to cable upgrade? How could he call himself audiophile if that was the system he had assembled prior to this cable change? All the electronics for which he paid thousands of dollars were performing this poorly? And he did not know it?
Of course this makes no sense. Where he went wrong was this:
At first he hears no difference which is neither here, nor there. But then he notices something he had not before. Reason for this is simple: he had not intently listened to this track before to notice whatever that was. This had nothing to do with the new cable. But he puts two and two together and attributes it to the cable. Now the predisposition bias sets in and when he goes back to the older generic cable, he is not as satisfied. This process happens all the time and is by far the best reason people believe in improvements that don't exist.
Listeners need to accept that their brain is not digital recorder that remembers everything. It simply cannot. Our hearing is highly lossy and we only remember a fraction of what is in music. When we focus on what is there, as in comparing cables, then naturally we notice things that went by before like the fence posts as you were driving to work every day.
We must accept that our hearing perception is NOT repeatable this way. It hears "new things" when nothing is new.
This has happened to me so many times. The only cure is to then perform the test blind and that obvious difference goes out the window. Or it gets attributed to the other the hardware configuration.
