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Blind listening test of power cords - and reactions to it.

Some poor soul decided it would be good idea to post results of his positive test of power cords on HydrogenAudio. Apparently, judging by # of posts under his belt, didn't know what he's doing - or, exactly the opposite, knew what he was doing, and wanted to provoke certain reaction.

And provoke he did!

The most notable ideas from 3 pages of responses:

- results are fake
- results are wrong
- test wasn't performed properly
- multiple suggestions about guy's mental condition
- multiple appeals to modern eletrical theory
- Randi's challenge mentioned several times

What I liked most:

- one moderator's suggestion that, since their ABX procedures were designed primarily for lossy codecs, and don't necessarily apply to hardware, he simply needs to TRY HARDER, to prove it to the people at HA;

- another moderator's suggestion that guy record at speaker terminals using ADC, and distribute the resulting files for them to evaluate - again, to prove it;

- at some point, 6(!) wacked-out, frothing-at-the-mouth posts by Arnie Krueger were combined by moderator into one (apparently, it's common practice there for mods to edit the posts);

- idea that "wrong" audiophiles hijacked termin "audiophile", so "real" audiophiles (them, apparently) invented termin "audiophool" to distinguish between two;

- original poster's quiet departure, apparently after some of his replies were blocked by moderators.

All of that can be found under "Listening tests" on their web site (no link, since it doesn't seem to be appreciated by mods here).


Sorry, kids at Prop Head - for entertainment value, HA is solid #1 place in my book.


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Topic - Blind listening test of power cords - and reactions to it. - carcass93 08:19:27 09/25/09 (151)
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