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"My Mom could hear the difference from the other room while doing dishes" = makes audiophiles look foolish

You should be ashamed of yourself for making audiophiles look like fools by claiming the differences in wires were so easy to hear that your Mom could hear them from the other room while doing the dishes.

That's beyond something I might say to joke about high-end audiophiles believing they have golden ears ... but you use it as proof wires sound different?

Never mind the three decades of blind tests where not one audiophile has ever been able to demonstrate to witnesses he could hear wire differences (and they were all in the same room as the speakers listening very carefully, and NOT doing dishes, because Real Audiophiles Don't Do Dishes)!

You claim your Mom beat all of the real audiophiles?

If you used a thicker lower resistance wire, the SPL would go up.

That's not a meaningful wire difference,
but could be audible as louder sound
and/or louder bass
and/or rattling room objects from the louder sound.

A small SPL increase has the greatest audible effect on the deepest bass frequencies (see the Fletcher Munson Curves link -- sometimes a few dB increase can push 20-30Hz. from inaudible to audible.

But the fact that thicker wires produce louder sound is meaningless in the question of whether audiophiles hear wire sound quality differences when wires are compared playing music at the same SPL.

Your statement implying some meaningful conclusion to your Mom being able to hear "Wire differences" from the other room while doing dishes, is by far the least objective "proof" that 'everything sounds different' I have ever heard from a golden ear in 40+ years as an audiophile.

Congratulations.

Almost as unusual as your preference for cassette tapes over CDs, and your hate of mono music (all live amplified shows are mixed to mono, so you must just hate live amplified music).

I nominate you for the 2008 Poster Girl for Unusual Audio Beliefs,
if such a position ever opens up.
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Richard BassNut Greene
"The Floyd R. Turbo of Bingham Farms Michigan"



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