Cables more hype than value?

Z, it's good to see you've toned it down quite a bit.

Like I've already mentioned, the comparison he made was between two different Wells Audio amps and he found it very difficult to tell the difference between the two using the ABX comparator. It was on a thread here on A'gon not too long ago. It could very well be that he hears a difference between two different makes.

I used this and this to cite his work after the ABX testing and can't locate any review of his on the D'Agostino Momentum amp as a formal review, let alone a comparison done with an ABX comparator. Were you citing from a show review?

As for having any impact on his ability to review going forward, he does address it in the article on the ABX comparator:

I believe the most seasoned listeners who concentrate to a potential orientation error could pass such ABX testing. Frank Van Alstine seems to concur that one can pass ABX Comparator testing with regularity, but it takes focussed concentration. In a noisier environment, or with distractions, even those caused by other listeners, I think the results could suffer significantly.

I believe that's more than one word.

What it will take is someone who can find the thread here on A'gon where he mentions the article and the quandary it left him in at the moment. It was in that thread where he mentioned how it was easier to hear differences between cables than amps. There's enough conventional wisdom on both sides of the debate to make it a moot point but let's let civility rule the day.

All the best,
Nonoise

"I believe that's more than one word."

I was referring to the review he did on the Wells Audio amp on dagogo May 2015. If he had such a profound experience with the ABX tester he just reviewed in April 2015, I would expect to see it take part in any amp reviews he did from that point on. To not do so makes no sense. The Momentum review is there too, 12/14.

My quote was from the very end of the articles on the ABX comparator. As I said, what he wrote in a thread here on A'gon went even further than the review and was what I referred to in my original post. I just used the link to the ABX Comparator so people would know what I was talking about.

His review of 12/14 would have no bearing being well before the ABX testing and the only review from Dagago on the Wells Audio Innomarata on 5/15 is from another reviewer, Greg Petan, not Douglas Schroeder. If there is another review by Schroeder on it I'd love to see a link to it.

Also, I don't see why he would use the Comparator in any other review since he did it for his own edification and simply became a better, more disciplined reviewer.

All the best,
Nonoise

"Innomarata on 5/15 is from another reviewer, Greg Petan, not Douglas Schroeder. If there is another review by Schroeder on it I'd love to see a link to it."

I was looking at looking at something that Schroeder wrote on dagogo, and I thought that was a link to all of his reviews. I don't know how I missed that, but I was clearly in error. I should have been more careful.

No biggie.