Re: Stereophile & Cable Theory

George Middius wrote: 
Robert Gault said:


Any scientific pursuit from medicine to taste comparisons of soda uses DBT. 


Do you consider buying audio equipment for use in your home to be a "scientific
pursuit"? If so, go for it -- take some "tests". Then you'll have "proved" that
everything sounds the same. And the Krooborg guarantees you can do it without
spending hundreds on a switchbox and devoting hundreds of hours to reach a
statistically meaningful number of trials. What fun! This is surely why audio
such a popular hobby.


When I buy audio equipment for my home, I want to be able to rely on a review which tells me the minimum amount of money I need to pay to achieve good sound quality. I don't want to be scammed into buying expensive equipment which can be had for less or does not work.

That should be the job of a good audio magazine. It should not be exclusively a shill for the audio equivalent of pyramid razor sharpeners.
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