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If several people hear the same effect ..individual hearing differences can possibly be discounted. More interesting is what people listen for rather than how [well for me anyway].

A simple test that nearly everyone can do pinkfloyds dsotm track 3 has the alarm clocks .....does this make you jump even if you know the first chime is coming ?

I use this test on equipment and cables if that first chime is smeared, so no sudden start, then theres obviously something not right.

try a freebie cable against say a qed quinex then use a good cable ......if your having problems hearing a difference then you have resolution issues elsewhere.

 

I think there might be a market for your B&D Iron Cable on ebay.

Perhaps you could post the model and serial no. of the iron concerned, and also any advice regarding the burning-in period, so that others can replicate what sounds like quite an advance in hi-fi cable technology.

Or are these trade secrets now?

 

But not psychological process towhich all humans are culpable...

Let see it identified under rigourous conditions.

 

Ha! What they remind my of are the old fashioned interconnects on the stereogram my uncle made in the '50's. Thin twisted pair individually screened with cream/brown/khaki-ish coloured cotton braid. I'll have to look for some old twin twist lighting flex and ebay them as retro.

On a more serious note I thoroughly object to the implied slight further down that New Scientist page to my home town of Corby...okay, I'll admit it's not somewhere you'd choose to live, but up to my mid-twenties I was convinced it was a wonderful place...a bit religious about the matter really, despite the evidence, not unlike some folks with audio cable.

 

Doesn't corby feature in a simon and garfunkel song somewhere...?

 

Really? I'll have to pay more attention.

 

what little known masterpiece,'shit town near kettering' ;-)

 

Ah but does Kettrin' have a crater on the Moon named after it? Corby does.

 

and a trouser press...lol