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Few people want to test their ears to be sure extra money buys audible performance improvements

I suspect Mr. Crabbe's chart is nothing more than his personal beliefs put in chart form to look "accurate".

It makes more sense to collect data and then come to conclusions ... than it does to chart an audiophile's beliefs.

For audiophiles willing to accept the ridicule of reporting blind listening experiments, the results over three decades consistently support the hypothesis that differences "heard" in sighted auditions are often imagined, or small SPL differences thought to be meaningful sound quality differences.

The results of these experiments don't necessarily apply to the ears of people who did not participate. But for those who did experiment, there was usually a large gap between what was expected (all components sound different) and what was experienced (component differences were usually subtle, or not audible at all while listening to music).

There's no reason to speculate about your own hearing ability when it's so easy to do a single-blind cable-swap audio component comparison at home and find out for yourself!

Audio magazines are in business to make money.

Most of the money they make comes from advertisers.

Advertisers make money by selling equipment.

Advertisers prefer magazines where good things are said about almost every component "tested".

They want customers to believe spending more money gets audible improvements.

That may be generally true for speakers where differences are easily heard, but makes no sense for electronics (and especially wires) where differences are often in the imaginations of the listeners.



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