Interconnects and non-believers

This thread has taken a nice turn from the usual cable threads with a LOT of very well written and thoughtful posts by numerous contributors without too much heckling and sniping.
I still think I believe I know what I hear though.....lol.

Just one question....how in the world do you find the time and state of mind to put together such powerful and long posts.
I tend to get a little lost after a couple of paragraphs when I am composing.
Hope you have some darn good music in the background for stimulation!

aalenik,

Though you were joking, to be clear I’m not remotely angry and felt I was being conciliatory.

And I understand you aren’t asking me to believe just on your say so.
(No more than I’d ask you to believe anything just because I say so).

I’ve known and/or spoken to a great number of audiophiles, high end salesman and manufacturers (as I suspect any of us have who have been in this hobby for many decades) and I think most manufacturers believe in their product and their various claims, and aren’t trying to hoodwink people. That’s why I’d written: "And btw, it doesn’t even have to be cynical or deliberate: people selling high end speakers certainly can and do believe in break in."

That said...when it comes to cables, given one can find companies charging up to $10,000 for an ethernet cable, I reserve the right to a special level of suspicion about the cynicism hiding in the audiophile cable industry.

prof,

You will have to have the last word on this subject (you won’t allow it any other way!)
Your extensive rationalizations have worn me out.

rvpiano,

Sorry, didn't mean to wear you out.  Don't respond if you don't feel like it, but if you even just ignore my last post to you, I would still be curious about your answer to one question.

You'd said there was a degree of hype and self-delusion in our hobby.

How do you think we could determine hype from substance, and just as important, self-delusion from reality?

Nelson Pass has a lot to learn on this topic.


IC`s: 2xVivanco KX-710 pr lenght, only inner cores connected. Makes the ultimate* IC, rca or xlr. One single KX-710 makes the ultimate digital coax.

*100% inaudible


Too bad I can`t upload pics here or I would have shown you how to do the rca`s. WBT-type plug