Audio Quality Test

[SomeRadioGuy]

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator​

https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator

 

[yeoldeschool]

Those bananas must have been extra high in magnesium.

For whatever it's worth, I can distinguish SBR from real treble. I can hear MP3 artifacts Audition's spectral view in its highest resolution mode doesn't show. I can easily hear Voltair in Youtube videos people make with open room mics while doing band scans on newly restored vintage radios. But since my youngest days, I have never once heard any difference between "monster cable," lamp cord, or scrap spools of single-stranded telephone wire when connecting speakers of any caliber to amps of any vintage.

Nice to see another article debunking the audiophile speaker wiring canard. I maintain my position that the stuff was always a product of currencyphiles, rather than audiophiles.

 

[bigdonho]

At least one of the stations in the Miami/Ft Lauderdale market had the Voltair encoding cranked up so high you could hear it on your car radio. In the old days you squashed the hell out of the music to be louder than the competition. I guess now you just crank up the encoding to be louder than the music.