Audiophiles unite!

[Bradley Young]

From http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showpost.php?s=97d4a3c39d247bf955a57b3953326a34&p=15412&postcount=28
 
quote:Unknown to me and our 12 audiophile buddies, prior to the ABX blind test, he took apart four coat hangers, reconnectd them and twisted them into a pair of speaker cables. Connections were soldered. He stashed them in a closet within the testing room so we were not privy to what he was up to. This made for a pair of 2 meter cables, the exact length of the other wires. The test was conducted. After 5 tests, none could determine which was the Monster 1000 cable or the coat hanger wire. Further, when music was played through the coat hanger wire, we were asked if what we heard sounded good to us. All agreed that what was heard sounded excellent, however, when A-B tests occured, it was impossible to determine which sounded best the majority of the time and which wire was in use.
Hahahahaha.  I laughed myself sick.  Absolutely brilliant!
 
I wonder if those coat hangers had 100% oxygen-free gold plated interconnects with point-to-point routing.

[lbpesq]

Alembic Coat Hangers?
 
Bill, tgo

[elwoodblue]

here's an excerpt from a responseregarding the coat hanger experiment (cool website...thanks):
 
IN the mid 90s, I worked for a fast ethernet company. We did a demo where we ran Fast Ethernet was run through 8 strands of barbed wire. Everyone was very impressed
 
so many things are possible , careful tho'

[811952]

Don't know which is worse:  pulling the barbed wire through the tray or terminating it.  
 
John

[811952]

Seriously, when I was spending a lot of time at Producer's Workshop in LA in the mid-'80s, there was a guy there who could reliably hear the difference between gold and other connectors..
 
I, on the other hand, could reliably hear that I was playing in the wrong key.    (maybe reliably is not the word I'm looking for here)
 
John
 
(Message edited by 811952 on March 04, 2008)

[paulman]

Sounds like a quick repair tip at a gig to me!