I love ASR and am a long time reader of Amir’s reviews and measurements :). I am more curious, in this case, about what, since it’s probably not the cables themselves, is creating that delta in the null test. That’s the part I can’t figure out, though I’ve pretty much resigned myself to just presuming it’s something else in the YouTuber’s signal chain and calling it a day.
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Damarus@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Maybe you’ve heard about a page called Audio Science Review. The owner amirm did some tests with a much more sane setup which he describes in detail. He actually finds his high priced cable (well above 2000 USD in this case) to perform worse than the cheap ones if anything, picking up more noise. I will trust his objective measurements any time of the day, this guy actually knows what he’s doing.
Damarus@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Adding to this, as I have now skimmed over the original video in question by ANA[DIA]LOG: He already introduces the topic by clearly stating that he is strongly biased towards “cables make a difference”, I can only assume he lacks the necessary fundamentals about what a cable does. He describes his test track to have “a lot of frequencies”. We don’t know about the gear he used, and he chose a singular test which cant’ be replicated as it has too many muddying variables. The data he shared had to be sanitized by you, to even give any chance of an objective interpretation, which really is impossible in these circumstances. When his test shows some differences, rather than being surprised and questioning the sanity of his test-setup, he just accepts the result that satisfies his bias. This is not science, this is a grifter trying to sell snake oil to the gullible.
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Yeah, you’re right. I should have just stopped when he said his source was a CD player, meaning he had no pure digital copy (i.e., no control) to compare too. Or, at least, he didn’t provide one… I get hung up on things easily. Thanks, though, you’re 100% right