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RE: USB Cables

I am not surprised when I fail to hear consciously what I had intuited to be the case. This is a normal situation, how the mind works. One of the reasons why this happens is that typically there are only a few portions of a track that are "tells" for small differences. If you are not paying conscious attention at these points your conscious mind will miss the clues, although your subconscious has already taken these into account. There are other issues as well having to do with memory effects. The mind builds an acoustic model over time and this ability was not designed to deal with "teleportation" from one electronically created sound field to another.

These effects are surprising the first few times they are encountered. With more experience and effort one can go beyond this stage. One will never go beyond this stage without a lot of effort and that requires belief that success is a possibility. Note that an unsuccessful test does not prove that a difference could not be heard. Failure to find evidence of guilt is not proof of innocence.



Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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