cheekily pinched from Killahertz over at HFC

"Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:28 am    Post subject:   

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Jeez, it's been a long time since I last posted - but the temptation to add a cat to the assembled pigeons is overwhelming, so...

Stewart Pinkertons cables test is pretty well known in UK hifi circles. Less well known is the long-standing challenge from one Richard Clark (www.carsound.com), in America. Oh, and his challenge concerns amplifiers, not cables, and the pay-off is $10,000.

Yes, $10,000 to audibly differentiate between two amplifiers. The challenge was borne, and remains primarily, within the car audio industry, although it was widened to include domestic amplification. So, let's say you have a Krell, go and buy yourself something from Richer Sounds, a plane ticket to the US, and come back $10,000 better off.

Well, either that or come back wiser, as everybody else who has taken the test has (recording engineers, golden ears, etc, etc). Oh, and a version of the test (amplifiers and cables) was, if I remember right, run at an AES convention, monitored by The Absolute Sound. Hundreds took the challenge, and the results averaged. They were 50:50, or 49:51, ball-park figures, and essentially the product of guesswork. "

I,ve asked if KH can post a link to the challenge .

Just in case there,s some dubious rules that make the test unfair .

But ,

If it is a genuine test , which has been unsuccessfully met , then it would be nice to see the cable sceptics (who are citing the cable challenge in their argument)aknowledge this test and the fact that maybe they are deluding themselves about what they can hear when they compare amps .

DOH ,

just noticed the link in his quote

hope everyones having a good Sunday