ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) (05/03/85)
Phil Rastocny says: > "...sound effect of OFC Conductor evaluated by famous music artists, crytics > and audio engineers for these seven or eight years. It is evaluated as > followings. > (1) rich and transparent > (2) sounds wide range to both side low and high > (3) exact orientation > (4) sharp sound image > (5) crisp transient " > It's nice to know that scientists have finally measured what golden ears have > claimed to hear for years. It looks like what Hitachi has done is to lend samples of their cable to a bunch of people for evaluation, and these people reported back favorably. Now, if I were manufacturing a product and I wanted to generate a bunch of favorable reports, I too would lend samples to a bunch of people, because there would be a strong psychological pressure for these people to talk themselves into believing that the free samples actually were better than what they were using. But enough about marketing. Let's talk about science. If I wanted to find out whether speaker cable X is actually better (or worse) than speaker cable Y, I would set up double-blind tests, in which the levels at the speaker terminals were matched to within 0.1 dB. I might not even tell the subjects that it was speaker wire they were evaluating: just give them a little box with a switch in it and ask which position of the switch they liked better. If people clearly preferred cable X under those circumstances, I would be more inclined to listen. Given only what you've said so far, I'll suspend judgment.