Re: Cables again. For Arny, et al.

On Feb 16, 3:17 pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:02:27 -0800, bob wrote

>  I would think that if I sent you,
> without comment, two recordings made on the same equipment and they
sounded
> substantially different, and you noticed it ON YOUR OWN, that this would
tend
> to eliminate the chance of any bias on my part.

Depends on what you were told about the two recordings. If it's two
versions of the same recording (is that what we're talking about here,
or sets of different recordings?), you'd naturally assume they were
different, even if you weren't told anything. But any little comment
could set off expectations (esp. when the guy sending them sells the
cables in question and wants you to notice!).

Also, there's not nearly enough information out there to conclude that
the *only* thing that changed was the cabling. If they did anything
twice, there's a good chance they did it better the second time--esp.
if *they* thought they were "hearing deeper into the music" now.

IOW, there are *lots* of possible explanations for this. And given the
source (TAS, and an Audioquest exec), any of those explanations would
be more plausible than that the cabling made a difference.

bob