Re: Cables again. For Arny, et al.

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:59:42 -0800, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article <fpd65e024rj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):

> "Sonnova" <sonnova@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:fp2mtd02u78@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>> How can this be that Wayne Garcia, not knowing that
>> anything had changed (ostensibly), immediately noticed
>> that something had changed for the better in the second
>> set of releases and found it significant enough to
>> mention it to Blue Note?
> 
> If someone sends me two sets of something, then I would naturally
presume 
> that either he screwed up, or that they were supposed to be different.
If I 
> knew the sender to be careful about such things, then I would be left
with 
> the presumption that they are different.
> 
>> Does this mean that
>> interconnects can and do make an audible difference
>> (something that my electronic engineering degree makes it
>> hard for me to believe).
> 
> This is a vague anecdote. That's a whole lot different from a carefully 
> controlled experiment. What does one give more credibility - a vague 
> anecdote or a carefully-controlled experiment?
> 

I think that's my point, more or less.

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