Synergistic Red Fuse ...

mitch2
1,297 posts
10-08-2016 2:54pm

Geoffkait: "I suspect you’re confusing evidence with proof."

to which Mitch replied,

"The essence of audio cable marketing 101....Mad Men"

How is marking cables or fuses for direction a marketing ploy? Share, share...

Geoffkait:"I also imagine you are dismissing the testimony of one thousand audiophiles as mere group hysteria."

to which Mitch replied,

"Don’t confuse testimony with fact."

testimony is not fact or proof. Never said it was. What I did say is that it’s evidence. Hel-looo! Next up, a tutorial on the difference between proof and evidence.

cheerios

 
mapman
13,754 posts
10-08-2016 1:20pm
Seinfeld.

Revenge of the Nerds Part 2

Geoffkait:

"testimony is not fact or proof"

Finally, we agree.
So, my question is, if "the testimony of one thousand audiophiles" is not fact or proof, then is it "mere group hysteria?"  

Geoffkait:

"How is marking cables or fuses for direction a marketing ploy? Share, share..."

Actually, my comment was that "confusing evidence with proof" is "the essence of audio cable marketing 101."
In the marketing of audio cables and accessories, "evidence" is sometimes mistaken for science and "testimony" for fact.
Audiophiles like tweaky science stuff like green pens, magic dots, crystals, 6-degree of motion footers, quantum tunneling, cryogenic treatment of anything using nitrogen, or the poor man's version of cryo - i.e., putting CDs in the freezer, the concept of grainless boundaries, draining vibrations and line-noise to an "earth-ground,"  ultra-purity materials using as many 9's as possible without someone calling BS, anything harder, denser or stronger than something else, exotic materials such as palladium, graphene, resin, and any materials used in space shuttles, advanced military rockets or nuclear submarines, oh, and they like the idea of "transforming" the sound of their rigs by something so simple as orienting a cable or fuse in its "proper" direction.  
If you pile enough technical jargon in one place you can pretty much use that as copy to sell audiophiles just about anything but, Geoff, you don't need me to tell you that.

This is not quite the most fun I have had today but it is probably about time for this thread to return to its regularly scheduled programing....it was doing so well before the negative waves crashed the party again.

Why don't you knock it off with the negative waves,
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here,
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change,
Oddball to Moriarty....Kelly's Heroes

Mitch wrote,

"If you pile enough technical jargon in one place you can pretty much use that as copy to sell audiophiles just about anything but, Geoff, you don’t need me to tell you that.

This is not quite the most fun I have had today but it is probably about time for this thread to return to its regularly scheduled programing....it was doing so well before the negative waves crashed the party again.

Why don’t you knock it off with the negative waves,
Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here,
Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change,
- Oddball to Moriarity...Kelly's Heros"

Ignorance is bliss. - Cypher...The Matrix

Have a nice hair day

Who here has the Black UEF Power Cord? Now that I've replaced all my fuses with the blacks, I think that's my next step.