'Black Pearl solid silver conductors drawn in diamond coated dies and insulated with virgin FEP dielectric' doesn't help.
  • schema@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    11 hours ago

    When i was about 9, i was absolutely convinced i could find water with the help of two metal rods. Whenever I held it over water, they would just magically cross without me doing anything. Until my dad filled some opaque cups with water and kept some empty, and put paper over all of them. I failed hard at sensing the the ones with water, even though i had earlier confirmed it worked on a cup with water in it.

    Ever since that day I learned never to trust my own brain with things like these. Even though it might not be on purpose, our brain subconsciously deceives us into confirming our own bias.

    You can try it out yourself. Have someone else switch the cables while you are not in the room. The try and identify which cable they used purely by sound. It’s not as good as a double blind test, but it should be enough to test your own claim.

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      Agreed, people should do that.

      As I stated in a different comment, this is what I did with a friend. We had 5 different cabels ranging from cheap to about $4000 and we kept listening to the same song. I could not hear the difference after the cheapest performance cable however (Purple flare) but I definitely could hear the difference between those and the cheaper cables.

      Again, I don’t know how to describe it. I’m not an audio guy, but I did prefer it.

      Again, I’m not an expert. But I’m willing to bet that there is some aspect of sound that is simply not being accounted for in tests like these. And for anything that has to deal with your senses, you should test it for yourself, not just take someone else’s word or experiment for it.