wow, Ive been without a computer for about 4 days (having fun on my holiday week!) and Ive missed a real barnstormer.

I hope people have relaxed a bit, things got a bit nasty at points I think.

Having just read the entire thread beginning to end - here's the bits I thought most interesting...

ZANASH:

if you change the inductance resistance and capacitance ie change the cable in a circuit, you will change the way the audio signal is percieved

SIDESHOWBOB:

It's equally (or, IMO, more) likely, however, that electrically identical cables are in fact indistinguishable,

To me, both of these comments say the same thing, but from opposite sides of a fence.

I wonder if there is in fact any disagreement in the forum about the two conclusions I draw from the above statements?????

1) By effecting the inductance, resitance or capacitance of a cable, you can make it sound different. Substantial changes can result in very audible differences.

2) A large number of cables which have near identical resistance, capacitance and inductance sound indistinguishable, regardless of differences in price.

I think there is more ''common thinking'' on this forum than we give ourselves credit for

NB

Merlin - thanks for the vote on confidence and the DBT invite  Im always tempted to learn more about music instead of kit when I meet people from the forum though, theres a lot to discover

EDIT...

Lawrie -

Apologies if I was a little hard on you regarding the original DBT testing thread. I think its a very scientific way of assessing differences. My rejection of DBT, or (LBT!!) was more in the fact that it seems to suck the fun from the hobby, and that personally, I dont buy something if the effect is so small I can hardly hear it..

Cheers folks.

Chris