Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity?

If as Eldartford suggests, Pabelson is correct that science knows but audiophiles don't, then why is there not just one best cable, one best speaker, one best amp.

Because science doesn't tell us that there is only one best anything. Thanks for proving my point about what audiophiles know about science.

For example, the "best" cable, in the technical sense, is the one that distorts the signal the least. (Although some audiophiles may actually prefer a cable that distorts more!) But which cable that is depends on the impedances of the amp and speaker it's connecting. As a practical matter, many cables distort the signal so minutely--a fractional roll-off in the top octave--that the differences aren't audible (assuming you do a meaningful comparison). But when the differences are audible, a few measurements will suffice to explain why.

TBG, many a person who claims common sense, believes that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones - that is just common sense, isn't it? In fact I think that those persons would probably claim that they have 'seen' the proof that heavier objects fall faster.
Ans, since when is engineering not science?
Bob P.

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As a senior engineer, with a lowly BME degree, I at some times had scientists (Physics PHD) working for me. I think that there are clear differences between Engineers and Scientists.

There is a saying that "There comes a time in every project to shoot the Engineers and get on with the job". Scientists, who may have been useful in getting the contract, should nevertheless be shot before work begins.
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"A movie that comes to mind is "Contact". Very thought provoking."

Science cannot explain time itself, the deeper they dig the closer they are coming to the fact that time is an illusion created by the brain. For instance, consider this; movement IS time/time IS movement, they are one and the same, one cannot exist without the other. There is 'NOW','NOW' stands on it's own, 'NOW' does not have a past or a future, it not a movement from one place to another, i.e. 'NOW' did not come from someplace nor is 'NOW' going someplace. 'NOW' is timeless and you are living 'NOW'.

inperinovations, it is an applied science and as such uses the discovered laws of more basic research.

Also, of course, when you get to a larger scale, such as planets and stars, really heavier objects will fall toward each other more rapidly given their combined gravitational attractions.