Re: Coaxial vs CAT 5
- From: "Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\"" <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:06:06 -0700
"Robert Redelmeier" <redelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As for those "Golden Ears" types, don't you know that their ears are
> > so good, that they can hear things that are physically impossible
> > to hear? A few years ago, there was a columnist (Larry Klien IIRC)
> > in Radio Electronics magazine, who'd occasionally take aim at those
> > Golden Ear types. Seems some of them can listen to two different
> > audio systems, in different environments at different times and tell
> > which one sounds best, but they also reject A-B tests as invalid.
>
> Well, for them hearing has passed from a sensory experience into
> a psychological experience. Perhaps a religious experience.
> In a free country, we really should respect other religions,
> even if we don't much believe them.
>
> > They're also the idiots who tend to buy stuff such as
> > Monster cables and other such junk.
>
> Monster cables are not junk. They're usually fairly decent
> midrange cables but sold at outrageous prices with the most
> appalling pseudoscience flim-flam.
>
> -- Robert
One might call them junk if you think of them as being advertised with
junk science.
OTOH, many Monster Cable imitators are junk in comparison, even tho they
_look_ like Monster Cable.
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