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Test methodology for your beloved boombox wire "test" is the worst I've read in 40 years as an audiophile

You never use two different sources to test wires.

You never use boomboxes for a test whose results you want to be relevant to home audio systems

You never use ultra-thin 20AWG or 24AWG speaker wires typical of boomboxes in a test whose results you want to be relevant to home audio systems (audiophiles don't use such thin wires)

You never let a manufacturer set up a test designed to sell his product and put money in his pocket.

Using an uncontrolled test of two boomboxes is the WORST example of a "test" I've ever heard of in 40+ years as an audiophile.

Even worse, I'll bet Monster Cable didn't actually test for audible differences -- they just asked people if they heard differences, and people said they heard differences between the ultra-thick wires and ultra-thin wires, which were probably not hidden from view!

If I had one year to work on a wire test methodology, I could not come up with a test methodology worse than your oh-so-beloved-Monster Cable "test" to prove that wires sound different in home audio systems.

Wait maybe I could. We'd only test Mothers doing dishes on the other side of a wall from the listening room! And then we'd combine that with the use of two different boomboxes in the next room.

You don't have any patents on these test procedures, do you?
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Richard BassNut Greene
"The Floyd R. Turbo of Bingham Farms Michigan"

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