My stone ears and crappy system appreciate the sentiment, but it is unnecessary, as gratuitous as it is. Already conceded, for various reasons, that my personal inability to have discerned a sonic improvement by flipping cables proves nothing and only serves as one support of personal skepticism. Others claim they have. For those with no skin in the game, I have no reason to doubt they believe it or have actually realized a benefit. The skepticism is on the notion that all cables are inherently and audibly directional. That some folks hear a change by flipping cables, doesn't prove inherent directionality, and it certainly doesn't disprove that there could be myriad other causes for the perception.
You tried to take a swipe to demand my test and test results. I laid bare that, of course, I have no such thing and would be unqualified for such an endeavor, in any event.
Little would please me more in the hobby than to obtain a sonic benefit, even a slight one, and definitely to the extent some have claimed to have realized (on par with upgrading speakers and amps), by something free and as quick as redirecting wire.
My "God" question was somewhat rhetorical--simply to illustrate that it seems some folks on both "sides" of this are so married to their respective positions that nothing, even God (should one assume he exists, is trustworthy, and is indeed all-knowing), might convince them otherwise. The non-rhetorical intent is just a question about who is more stubborn. I think I gave you more credit than due by actually re-reading it after you somehow perceived it as "the ultimate naysayer" argument. There is nothing "naysayer" about it, and it's actually quite neutral.
I don't follow your logic, and it seems you don't follow mine, unless you are being purposefully obtuse. Which one of us is Vizzini, Westley, or even Vezzik? Hell, I don't know.
And, dude, what is your fascination with sheep?
You tried to take a swipe to demand my test and test results. I laid bare that, of course, I have no such thing and would be unqualified for such an endeavor, in any event.
Little would please me more in the hobby than to obtain a sonic benefit, even a slight one, and definitely to the extent some have claimed to have realized (on par with upgrading speakers and amps), by something free and as quick as redirecting wire.
My "God" question was somewhat rhetorical--simply to illustrate that it seems some folks on both "sides" of this are so married to their respective positions that nothing, even God (should one assume he exists, is trustworthy, and is indeed all-knowing), might convince them otherwise. The non-rhetorical intent is just a question about who is more stubborn. I think I gave you more credit than due by actually re-reading it after you somehow perceived it as "the ultimate naysayer" argument. There is nothing "naysayer" about it, and it's actually quite neutral.
I don't follow your logic, and it seems you don't follow mine, unless you are being purposefully obtuse. Which one of us is Vizzini, Westley, or even Vezzik? Hell, I don't know.
And, dude, what is your fascination with sheep?