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    Default "With regards to evaluating equipment and cables, it's like Ali says ..."

    Originally, but not from me:

    "With regards to evaluating equipment and cables, it's like Ali says, the *only* way to do it properly is to install 'X' new component or cable and live with it for a week, then swap back to your old stuff and if it instantly sounds worse then you know you've obtained a genuine improvement, and conversely the reverse applies."

    Correct again. I and some others like me offer a 28 day evaluation period to facilitate this.


    "Quick-fire A/B comparisons are next to useless as almost always (unless something is really bad) a different, often more 'impressive' sound, is psychologically considered as better when in reality in the long term in many cases it isn't. Blind testing is just a joke because your head isn't in the right 'zone'."

    Err ... it's deja vu all over again. Didn't you take a look here? http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1229

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    HP (the man wot posts under his own name)

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    LOL. Yes but, not until after I'd written the above! Great minds think alike and all that...

    What's the purpose of this thread then, muchacho?

    Marco.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    LOL. Yes but, not until after I'd written the above! Great minds think alike and all that...

    What's the purpose of this thread then, muchacho?

    Marco.
    Err, not sure. My brain was in idle mode in the brief period between 2 consecutive sales and err - my brain hurts now sir - and can I be excused?

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