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Re: "engages in tests of recordings versus live music to see if your preferred equipment can duplictate it convincingly"

I've attended two very carefully conducted tests and they were quite convincing even if they were clearly contrived. I also compare the sound of my own audio systems to live musical instruments in my own home frequently although the comparisons are far less formal and rigorous than actual blind and double blind tests. This is what high fidelity sound reproduction is really about or at least is supposed to be about. BTW, as I have stated, I have never found those $1 interconnect cables to sound different from a shut provided by a tape/source monitor switch. That is about the most convincing test I can think of to prove that they do their job perfectly. They are easy for anyone who cares to to conduct for themselves either casually or formally. But in a world where people are so passive that even what ought to be energetic and curious youngsters whose counterparts in my youth were out playing baseball, riding their bikes, playing with ham radio and electronics, tinkering with and tearing down old car engines and rebuilding them today sit in front of their PCs playing video games or listening to their IPODs getting fat on McDonalds and Pizza. We had all that junk food when I was a kid too but we burned it up very quickly. Why not actually get up and try something yourself and tell us about it instead of just asking about someone else it? Surely you've got some cheap cables laying around even if it's from an old VCR you don't use anymore. Or maybe you just don't want to really find out for yourself what the truth is.

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