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divide two queries to get percentage
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want to join two queries so i can take the count of one query and divided by another query to get the percentage of work orders that were completed.the numerator query:[code]SELECT Count(MaximoReport.WorkOrder) AS CountOfWorkOrderFROM MaximoReportWHERE (((MaximoReport.WorkType) In ("PMINS","PMOR","PMPDM","PMREG","PMRT")) AND ((MaximoReport.Status) Like "*COMP") AND ((MaximoReport.[Target Start])>=DateAdd("h",-1,[Enter the start date]) And (MaximoReport.[Target Start])"00:00") AND ((MaximoReport.ActualStartDate)>=DateAdd("h",-11.8,[Enter the start date]) And (MaximoReport.ActualStartDate)the denominator query[code]SELECT MaximoReport.WorkOrder, MaximoReport.WorkType, MaximoReport.Status, MaximoReport.[Target Start]FROM MaximoReportWHERE (((MaximoReport.WorkType) In ("PMINS","PMOR","PMPDM","PMREG","PMRT")) AND ((MaximoReport.Status)<>"CAN") AND ((MaximoReport.[Target Start])>=DateAdd("h",-11.8,[Enter the start date]) And (MaximoReport.[Target Start])What i want is combine two queries so i can have one query do it all instead of three
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Another former ZER01 partner, Pervasip Inc, has launched its own $69 VOIP service for the Nokia N900 Maemo. So far, no known sales.
Global Verge also sells the "Golden Eggs™", a pair of brass balls that purify tap water or bottled water...
No point. SCO, after 3 years of bankruptcy, and losing money all the while, is in sad, sad shape.
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"Rule number one: If you leave with a helicopter, bring a helicopter back."
"Until about a year ago, I was absolutely 100 percent against night vision goggles for single-pilot operation. I thought it was crazy, I thought it was suicidal and I would never do it. It was based on my experience back when I was a young tactical police officer back in the '80s when we used some of the old night vision equipment when we were doing tactical operations, hostage and barricade situations, counter-sniper positions. You'd put that night vision optic up to your eye and you'd take it away and you're blind, you couldn't see anything."
"I had no idea what the new stuff was like until I went down to Florida and took an NVG course. The new stuff—you could put those night vision goggles on, take them off, and still see perfectly well. I'd only been under those NVGs maybe 20 minutes, and I was flying around shooting autorotations to little concrete platforms not much bigger that the size of this riser here. We were flying along [in the Everglades] and the instructor said, 'OK there's a spot that's about a half-mile ahead, concrete pad, I want you to land on it.' What pad? 'Out there.' Out there where? He said 'OK, put the goggles on,' and there it was. So I've become a convert. As it's time to acquire new aircraft, you have to re-think everything, including your attitude about some of the things that you pooh-poohed 10 years ago."
"Check your operation for safety-compromising issues that may have developed over time. Frequently—you know, frequently for a 24-hour fruit fly is every nanosecond, and frequently for a dinosaur is every 15 million years. You're going to have to look at your own operation to figure out what frequently is, but there are a whole lot of things that may go into what has changed your situation the last time you looked. Are you handling a large number of clients? Are you taking care of a larger jurisdiction? What about your pilots, are they getting old? That's not necessarily a change in your operation, but it's a change in a part of your operation. If you're going to have newer pilots coming in, you might want to design around the skills and talents of newer pilots. These are really all things you should take a look at."
"This is all the technology that we all know is out here now, but we need to start thinking about what this is going to do for our operation. How much of the old stuff was great when you bought your helicopter, or when you came to work for that organization? Maybe it's time to upgrade your aircraft, or to update the avionics in it."
"You should make that new investment an investment in safety. Don't just look at the Hobbs meters and the things like that, think about the next time you do an acquisition to start acquiring the instruments and the brand new technology that you're going to need for your aircraft."
"Why have a file that says: What are my aircraft needs? For Miami-Dade [Police Dept], a hurricane came through about 10 or 12 years ago, ripped the top of their hangar off, and boom—they've got no aircraft. … They were insured, they had the money, but were they up to speed about what do we really need, what's available, what's out there, and what should we put in our new aircraft? You should have some idea, I mean not right down to the last line, but if you're the chief pilot, you're the guy in charge of these programs. You should have some idea, if something happens—well, what am I going to do?"
"If you're a project manager for LA County Fire, and they expect it online by June, and you're not working with a completion house that has an ODA [organization designation authorization], and you're doing a lot of outfitting of the aircraft—lot of STCs, you're going to put a tank on it, a hoist, and put radios in it. And the FAA has already wrote a letter that says they're not in a position to be able to guarantee the time it's going to take to complete the STCs, the engineering staff is a little weak and they don't have the overhead to do that anymore, you are opening yourself up for a huge problem. If you're a major program and you're doing a lot of mods on the aircraft, you really need to think about going to an ODA to have it done. Air Methods, Keystone, Edwards—there's three or four more, but in the long run, it's a safe bet from your position as project manager."
"There's a lot of pressure on the private [organizations]. If I go out as a public operator, and make a bad decision about aircraft acquisition, I might get my hand slapped but that will be about the end of it. If you're on the private side, and you make a bad decision about buying an aircraft, you're probably going to get fired."
"To be a effective safety officer, you have to have a good command climate, whether it's the civilian world, or the military world, you have to have that boss, that commander, that CEO or president of the company behind you. He has to give you the authority to make changes and get things done. I know from experience, many operators don't have a program. They try to have one, maybe appoint a pilot for safety duties along with being a line pilot—that never works."
"Hiring the right people, making sure your safety officer is trained—you're not the only one that's doing it, you're the manager. You cannot be everywhere and every place."
"When I first started my career in aviation, we used to wear a little red safety dot. People would ask, what's the safety dot? And I said, we're supposed to take time for safety. And then it evolved to the point where it is today—safety needs to be integrated into every aspect of our operation. We shouldn't take time for safety, it should be a second thought that we just do."
"Operators should ask two questions when purchasing a helicopter: What is it worth today, and what will it be worth when I sell the helicopter, or renew the lease? When looking at various features, such as an EMS interior, what does it add to the helicopter's value?"
"If you have something that is more expensive than the norm, or outside normal operating parameters, now we need to approach it in a different way. Some options will become so popular that they not only stop adding to the value of the helicopter, instead, you're going to have a deduction if that helicopter doesn't have it. If you're flying a Bell 212, and it doesn't have a cargo hook, then you have a problem at resale time—you're going to need to put one on, or have an allowance for the buyer."
"If you have a Sikorsky S-76, and it doesn't have a cockpit voice recorder, you're in trouble—nobody wants to go in today, in today's market with the amount of supply out there, and pull a used helicopter, and have to keep it out of service to do a lot of installations on equipment that is not included. There's simply too much available out there with a wide variety of equipment on it."
"The goal here is you want operational success, to minimize those costs and injuries."
"We've already talked about mishap reporting. You've got to encourage people to look at you as the nice guy, and tell you what happened when they have little errors, and even big errors. Get them to explain the events, and document it. The only way you're going to get trends out of that stuff is if you document it. Some great organizations have displayed how they're looking at trends, but it's in the non-punitive fashion. You've got to keep building and fortifying your safety system as a safety officer."
"When you have a crash, here's a little trick: look at your safety system and say, all right, our organization has had an accident. You've got to ask, if it is human error, did they go around your system, or through it? We talk about how 80–85 percent of the accidents are human error. If you start looking at those human errors, you have to ask, 'Did I have something in place to stop that accident?' An example: there's a thunderstorm nearby, and there's a company rule that thou shall not fly within five miles of thunderstorms. Now there's an accident, and there was a storm nearby. Did that pilot willingly violate your SOP? If that was the cause of the crash—NTSB, everybody's filtered through it—and there's nothing wrong with the [helicopter], and at the crash site, they chalked it up to weather."
"Did the pilot violate and go around your safety system? You had something there to prevent it. Now if you didn't have a policy like that, and you had an accident, now you can say "Look, new policy guys." That's when you start making paperwork, new regulations. But try and avoid that as the safety officer—you don't want to keep putting down rules for everybody. Look at what you've got, and when you have an accident, look at it: did the person go through it, or around it? … I'll bet, most of the time, they went around it. That's where you get complacency."
"Nobody wants to get in an accident. When it happens, they may have gone around it, but you have to take that information, you ask why, as the safety guy, you can't be putting them on the cross—you have to turn around and say, 'All right, everybody sit down, and let's talk about how we're going to strengthen our culture, our safety system.' If you get to that point, where you haven't crucified this person, it's a non-punitive action and hopefully the rest of us will avoid going around the system again."
"Schedule meetings. Make a definitive time, the second Tuesday of every month, we're having a safety meeting. The important part—and this is where the communication skills come in—you need to conduct follow-ups with all of your folks to ensure that they understand the programs that you're talking about, and you need to educate yourself on safety-related topics. There's nothing wrong with re-calibrating on safety topics and company goals before you go out there and convey that message to employees."
"If you read one hour a night on any given subject in your profession, you will become in the top 10 percent in your profession, as far as knowledge basis goes."
"[SMS programs] don't have to be aviation-related. Give your folks something to take home that they can make their families safe. Talk about poison control, talk about home safety, talk about the 101 critical days of summer—that will get the ball rolling and get them to starting think about safety in all aspects of their lives, not just when they're in the cockpit flying from point A to B, but all the time. That's where you change the core value of your folks and that's where you're going to start to change the safety culture of your company."
"We need to convey to all the employees that the safety programs of a company do not belong to the safety department. The safety department is there for guidance, for oversight, but the safety programs belong to the employees in general. So there's a responsibility of the department heads and the departments, that they need to structure and build their safety programs to accommodate the needs of the people, to ensure they have that safe working environment."
"I'm going to steal a line from BJ [Raysor, director of aviation ops or Arkansas Children's Hospital and IHST member]—you are where the rubber meets the road, absolutely, so you have to put your personality forward when you're doing this. It's a thankless job—sometimes it's even an unpaid position—but your dedication to your training has to come through, to make sure that your operation not only is safe, but you have to follow along and so many other things come into play. Profitability, accomplishing the mission, other factors are all important, but the big thing is you're the manager of making sure that safety is integrated into everything."
"In a small operation, you may wear many hats—you're the trainer and the person they always see. Delegate some of those smaller projects like slips, trips and falls, to some of the other pilots. Not only will it help inspire them to be a part of the safety program, like we said, everyone is a safety officer in the company, or in the unit, or whatever it is. So delegate some of that authority. Don't wear out your welcome with all your people, with endless PowerPoints on slips, trips and falls."


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I recently installed a pair of Valhalla 2 XLR Interconnects in my system and can say without question that these cables live up to what was written in the above article. I discovered improvements in clarity, detail, dynamics and soundstage. While not the tour de force cable that is Nordost Odin, it is a vastly superior cable to the Valhalla and the other Nordost series that are under Valhalla. If you are a fan of Nordost products or you are considering upgrading a cable or interconnect, even if it is a different brand, I highly suggest you give the V2 a try. You will not be disappointed.
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On Tuesday May 28th, 2013, Nordost premiered the Valhalla 2 cable lineup at Lyric Hi-Fi in New York City. Rune Skov, International Product Training & Sales Support Manager for Nordost, gave a demonstration to a garrulous group of audiophiles who joyfully suggested what differences they heard as Skov switched out each old Valhalla cable for the new one.
The first iteration of the Valhalla is a 13-year old technology. Skov stated the Valhalla "really put Nordost on the map," but that "it was time to make changes." Many attendees at the demo proclaimed proud ownership of Valhalla but were curious to hear the advantages of the new design. As usual, nobody had the audacity to take the sweet spot chair. A self-proclaimed symphony-conductor and I took seats at the wings of the front row.
The Valhalla 2 power cord costs $5,999.99 for 2 meters and is $1,000 each additional meter. The Valhalla 2 power cord is comprised of seven solid silver plated 16 AWG OFC conductors intertwined and suspended in a Dual Mono-Filament matrix. It is insulated with extruded fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP), a really awesome plastic used in lab-ware and tubing for corrosive processes.
Rune started with an all Valhalla 2 wired system except for a single Valhalla 1 power cord running from the wall to a Quantum QB8 power distribution center ($1499). Other gear plugged into the QB8 included the Simaudio Moon 880M monoblocks ($42,000/pair), Simaudio Moon 750D CD Transport ($12,500), and Simaudio Moon P8 Preamplifier ($16,000). The Focal Stella Utopia loudspeakers ($95,000/pair) finished it off.
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We then ran the same test with another track from the same album, this time only switching the power cable of the Simaudio 750D CD Transport from Valhalla 1 to Valhalla 2. The rest of the cables remained Valhalla 2. I heard cleaner and more extended highs, extended decay on the rumbling left hand of the pianist, and greater dynamics.
Skov sold his power chord: "Your system will never sound better than the first power chord you have."
Third to demo was the Valhalla 2 interconnect which costs $9799 for two meters and an additional $1100 for each additional half-meter. Skov interchanged balanced interconnects on the Simaudio 750 CD Transport. We listened to Chai Lang's performance of "Theme from the Godfather" on the Rhymoi compilation A Time to Meet Again. In this comparison, I heard a less obvious difference but still a difference. There were longer decays to the piano, a bit of shrillness from the violin was eased away, and the violin's transition to a lower-pitched section seemed a touch less bulky.
The Valhalla 2 interconnect is offered with both single-ended and balanced terminations. With the single-ended cables, circular wood blocks wrapped around the interconnect instruct the user from which direction to transfer the signal. Both terminations feature Nordost's new trademarked Holo:Plug technology which claims to maximize efficiency of your signal transfer by creating a direct connection with the wire's conductors.
At this point, the conductor next to me asked for a recording with a full orchestra. I made an aggressive move and took the sweet spot.
Skov played Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre as performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, conducted by Eiji Oue, and recorded by an editor at Hong Kong hi-fi magazine Audio Technique. Most startling and enjoyable were the piece's shifting dynamics and the system's startling impact with the unisons of timpani and double bass.
Another attendee asked for some jazz. Skov played Vietnamese-Danish bass player Chris Minh Doky's sleepy arrangement for "Every Breath You Take" by the Police. This is jazz?
Skov suggested that the CD sounded weird and put on "All Blues" from Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. The image was comfortably spread with one sax on each side and Davis's trumpet clearly centered. The contrast in breathiness and blowing force between Cannonball Adderley's nearly spritely alto and Coltrane's mellower tenor was delightful. Good call on the switch Skov!
The final demo of the presentation was for the Valhalla 2 speaker cables priced at $11,849 for a two meter pair and $1500 each additional half meter. Nordost describes:
"The Valhalla 2 Reference Speaker Cable consists of twenty-eight conductors divided into four groups of seven. Each conductor is made from solid core 99.999999% oxygen free copper and plated with 85 microns of silver…The transmission speed of the cable is extremely fast, at over 96% the speed of light."
Someone better call Marty McFly.
Skov played song "Another Day in Paradise" from Swedish singer Josefine Cronholm. During playback with the Valhalla 1, I noted an enjoyable evenness and cleanliness to the stand-up bass and exciting shimmering rise from a cymbal quickly struck with mallets.
Skov and Michael Taylor of Nordost fell to their knees as they switched the Valhalla 1 for the Valhalla 2 speaker cables. Through the Valhalla 2, I heard more inner detail to the stand up bass with slightly longer decay. A rimshot that had before been mostly metal rim and drumstick now included much more body of the snare. The rising cymbal now featured more body of the cymbal and less shimmer.
Nordost also offers a digital interconnect and tonearm cable within their Valhalla 2 line. As I left the event, Michael Fremer arrived. He's got some Valhalla 2's at home. Hopefully, he will share his thoughts in the future either in Stereophile or on AnalogPlanet.com. To sum up the improvements from the Valhalla 1 to the Valhalla 2 that I heard, it seemed the new cables brought out more inner-detail to the instruments, added spaciousness to the soundstage, and eased and sweetened the highs.
Would you care to share any details whatsoever about your system? A photo would be the best.
Evidently a sucker is born every minute; suckers appear to be drawn to exotic cables like moths to a flame, and they don't even notice when they get burned! I can't tell if you are a sucker or if you are a flame.
Thanks to Nordost for giving me and other scientists in electrical engineering a good laugh.
i hear this time and time again that people dont hear the difference in cables. There are lot of factors involved. I have 3 stereo systems ranging from $1500 to $75k.
If i install my high end power cable from my 75k system into my $1500 system, it has no difference in sound. But a huge difference in my 75k system.
Point is if you take the $10k wheels from a buggati and install it on a scion...
The scion driver will swear that wheels are a waist of money as it probably will degrade the cars performance...
Now if you take the scions wheels and install it into the buggati....you get my point...
the new cables brought out more inner-detail to the instruments, added spaciousness to the soundstage, and eased and sweetened the highs
all that plus 96% speed of light for only 51,649.95 USD - even Marty McFly would be impressed.
Is a free tattoo included if one buys the whole set?
I've bookmarked this page and can't wait. Ariel, your whole life is ahead of you, don't blow your hi-fi cred on this one.
costs $9799 for two meters and an additional $1100 for each additional half-meter
Is the $1 on the 2m pair a discount for willingness to be fleeced? As for the additional, half-meter should it rather be $1099 per 46.5 cm just to round it up audiophile way...
The next you are doing a cable comparison with $10,000 cables on a $200,000 system. Come on man...
A blown tweeter that had gone unnoticed for four years! LOL!
I can offer no formal opinion on this matter as I have not compared to cables of lesser or similar price ranges.
Yet you just claimed you did in your article since you compared the "old" with the "new".
Now the question is, if there is a difference to hear, how do you know which cable is the closest to the reality of the recording? You don't but you assume that the characteristics of the new are "better". As for the VERY clear, I truly wonder what else you'll write when they'll introduce the next next generation in 3 to 5 years time...
Ariel, it is my opinion that your ears will never receive enough "training" because there's nothing more to hear; you have entered the realm of psycho-acoustics, and apparently there's no turning back. "The Emperor's New Interconnect" is the one and only appropriate title for any article such as this.
By the way, regarding your detective skills and the blown tweeter... I love your definition of "proper listening environment,"—the only thing missing is a bong and a VHS copy of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
It's cool that you're writing up so many articles for the Stereophile homepage; don;t spoil it by insisting that interconnects have an impact when all science points to the fact that their influence is vanishingly minimal once basic electrical parameters are taken care of.
By the way, did you ever think to ask the good folks at Nordost what percentage of the speed of light electrons travel in a Radio Shack interconnect? Seriously, I want to know.
Finally, here's a tip: Calibration mics are quite affordable. Use one on a regular basis and you'll catch most issues pertaining to frequency response, as well as giving yourself a powerful tool to improve your systems sound—unlike ridiculous interconnects, proper use of a calibration Mic with some RTA software will lead to genuine improvements in your system's performance.
I know what it's like to operate in cramped quarters. I definitely am not a believer in high-end interconnects, but I am a believer in doing what it takes to get good sound—aesthetics be damned.
Here's my current solution. The tweeters cost a whole lot more than those Andrew Jones towers! Time aligned, too.
Ij promise, hyper-expensive interconnects and speaker cables are among the few things that make my blood boil. That's the skeptic in me, as you can see I use extension cord from Home Depot as my speaker cable, and sump basins from Home Depot as subwoofers.
3000 watts of Crown amplification, contractor-grade extension cord delivers it to my frankenspeakers!
I'm definitely curious about speaker-wire tests, especially in light of the (now famous) engadget "Monster Cable vs. Coat Hanger" test.
My impression is that there is zero correlation between price and "quality." For all I know, aluminum foil wrapped in celophane sounds better than cables that cost more than cars.
Also, I agree that one should know how to listen, as well as how to measure. However I question whether it's the ears that are really being trained—it's all in the mind, including the ability to focus deeper into music. One thing I'd like to see is a salesperson for high-end cables flip the script and start with the "new, awesomer" cables first, then switch to the less-impressive pair. I feel that sometimes there is a bias towards "first here's the old, now here's the new" in those sort of demonstrations.
So, you guys would rather junk around in a beat up 1980's F-150 than drive a Lamborgini Veneno and you think everyone else should too? Unless I won the next Powerball lottery, I'd never be able to afford the Veneno, but given an opportunity to test drive one, who wouldn't? Well, sounds like you guys would rather pretend those kinds of stratospherically-priced items don't exist....
If by "Test Drive" you mean go to audio shows and have a good listen to the latest ultra-high-end offerings, I do that. I appreciate the quality of those systems. The car example doesn't work for me, unless the 1980's F-150 you are referring to is the one from Buckaroo Banzai. You know, a vehicle that's capable of crossing dimension barriers.
I'll gladly spend money when it correlates to performance, but I can recognize when an item's price is entirely based on the needs of the rich—to feel special and exclusive. Mostly, I'm all about warning folks with modest income to stay away from ultra-high-end interconnects and cables. When a wealthy person buys such cables, they help create jobs and I have no issue with that.
I've used a bathroom on a yacht that featured Rolex plumbing. It did not improve any aspect of the experience, versus how some Kohler gear would have performed. How's that for an analogy?
"I've used a bathroom on a yacht that featured Rolex plumbing. It did not improve any aspect of the experience, versus how some Kohler gear would have performed. How's that for an analogy?"
Ah man.. that is just to funny.
But I don't know about you but if a bathroom is not painted white and have that cold hospital feel, I cannot enjoy my dump.
Tell me again what's the audio difference between 96% of speed light and 94%?
I purchased these cables and hooked them up to my Pioneer Elite vsx-52, Emotiva Amps and polk audio Monitor 60 speakers. Now my system out classes MBL's highest end gear. You don't need to by high end equipement, just spend your money on ultra premium cables.
Cognitive dissonance theory explains human behavior by positing that people have a bias to seek consonance between their expectations and reality.
You are a genius, sir.
So what's the point of warning people who can't afford a yacht, a Veneno, a Rolex, or the Valhalla 2?
Test drives allow you to try out things that exist outside of your own imagination.
I purchased these cables and hooked them up to my Pioneer Elite vsx-52, Emotiva Amps and polk audio Monitor 60 speakers. Now my system out classes MBL's highest end gear. You don't need to by high end equipement, just spend your money on ultra premium cables.
Congratulations, you just saved a whole lot of money you never had!
Do you think everyone else will have exactly the same listening experience you've had? These cables are of no benefit only to you and your music system, right?
In other words, you didn't have fun driving a Veneno? I wonder why...
Of all the negative comments assigned to this article. All the posts claiming they cannot and will not work. All the myriad of supposed reasons why one should never buy such a product, does it not seem odd that the only two comments that are positve, and agree with the article, are from people who have actually purchased V2 cables and installed them in thier system? Villify these cables all you want, until YOU have spent the money, installed them in your system, and judged for yourself if the claims made by the manufacturer are true or not, you really cannot say for sure, can you?
does it not seem odd that the only two comments that are positve, and agree with the article, are from people who have actually purchased V2 cables and installed them in thier system?
I does not seem even remotely odd. Who on Earth would buy such unbelievably expensive cables, if they did not at least think it made a significant difference? The key is that they buyer has to think the cables are worth it, or else they truly are a fool being parted with their money.
I've auditioned a number of exotic cables over the years. My criticisms—and the fact I won't purchase such product—go hand-in-hand; they are the result of personal experience as well as the application of logic. It's a truly odd suggestion, that one would need to actually buy the cables before they can ascertain if they work. IMO "try before you buy" is a truly important concept—especially when considering the merits of super-expensive items that make dubious performance claims.
By the way, I took the comment about the Emotive/Polk system to be pure sarcasm. I would want visual proof that someone actually has the cables they claim they do, before I trust that someone is using a pair of $10,000 interconnects in an Emotiva/Polk system. I feel really bad for anyone who might actually make such a mistake.
The way exotic cables are sold, it's a perversion of good science and a betrayal of trust.
Mark "Psychedelicious" Henninger
So your only criteria for a good sounding audio component is affordability?
Unaffordability= "perversion of good science and a betrayal of trust"? So buying a Land Rover instead of a F-150, one is perverted and betrayed?
The price differential between a F-150 and a Land Rover is not in the same category, it's more like buying a Lunar Rover, thinking it'll somehow outperform a F-150 on planet Earth.
For what it's worth, I think money spent on actual gear and actual engineering is money well spent. In the vehicle analogy, the engine is the amp and the chassis is the speaker. The road is the source, of course.
Spending hard-earned money on wickedly overpriced cables? That's like buying $40,000 tires for your hypothetical Land Rover, with the promise that the mere addition of overpriced tires will somehow transform the truck into a helicopter. Good luck.
Most ads for cars, perfumes, performance-enhancing medications, lotteries, etc. will tell you in one way or another that buying a particular product will lead to a life changing experience. Are only the "expensive" items examples of betrayal and perversion? Your logic is still based on affordability. Where do you draw that line of affordability and for whom?
Too expensive= can't be good, or just...
Too expensive for you!
You miss the point. A cable is a cable, ascribing magical qualities to a cable does a disservice to the entire HiFi communty. It's too bad you believe in fairy tales, because there are much more interesting components to pay attention to, than cables. I'm not blind, the world is full of people who have misplaced their faith in a false diety. Nordost just takes the concept to an absurdist extreme, but as with any cult one expects to encounter a few true believers.
Let's say a guy who delivers pizzas for a living buys a $150 interconnect (10 times more than he can afford) because he was promised that it's the last component he'll ever need to buy, but his music system now sounds like a table radio. Did he also get shafted by betrayal and perversion of good science?
Of course. That pizza delivery person should have bought their interconnect on Amazon.com, of at a "Five Below". $150 for a faulty interconnect is a betrayal and a perversion of good science, as it pertains to engineering.
So betrayal and perversion occurs at all levels, not just "high-end"?...
If a product does not work as it should, that is a bertrayal. Sometimes, cheap products fail to perform; so yes, it's fair to say that "caveat emptor" applies at all levels.
Another motivator for buying expensive stuff? Confidence. SImply put, those who can afford it should be able to buy what they wish and pay what they wish. They are even allowed to think that all the money buys they something special. Sometimes that's even true, even with cars—but cost is not a significant indicator of performance when it comes to power cords, speaker cables and interconnects.
Nordost is doing what everyone else is doing. What's the difference?
Presumably what you mean is that Nordost cables perform the exact same task as other cables. So, the only difference is price!
Most of those products exist to massage the egos of the insecure, so I think the advertising angle is perfectly appropriate. Yes, perfume defines the notion of "The Emperor's New...whatever." It's all a rip off, but the more the item costs, the bigger the ripoff. Monster Cable is still a ripoff, but nowhere near the level of ripoff of Nordost.
Have I seen you shopping there?
Was that you? I bet you were discussing interconnects!
So why repeat yourself? Cables are deep shannanigan territory. I think money spent to improve sound is much better spent on amplification, speakers a good DAC, and room treatment. Any funds left over should be spent acquiring MUSIC. Only a fool wastes their money on interconnects. Frankly, I say that as a music producer as well as a fan of Stereophile magazine for the last 25 years.
I'm only trying to help.
Nordost own website:
From Valhalla 2 interconnect: "V2 is extremely fast, at over 87% the speed of light."
From Valhalla 2 speaker cables: "The transmission speed of the cable is extremely fast, at over 96% the speed of light".
Therefore, the entire system will be limited at 87% provided there is not somewhere a lower value to be found.
Now to put in perspective this terrible loss, the exact speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s so the difference between 96% and 87% is huge:
27,000,000 m/s! This is HUGE. On your system with overall 10 m length of pricy cables, you're looking at a 0.00000037 s "very clearly" audible difference!
Can you afford to lose sleep over this?
It's still not clear how much of an increase in near-light-speed performance Nordost gets you. 87% of light speed sounds slow to me, what if a Radio Shack cable performs faster? Has anyone tested this?
It's 2 a.m., I'm losing sleep!
Seeing your system photo and hearing your music on your soundcloud profile, no wonder you find Radio Shack/ Home Depot wire good enough.
I'd say that comment exposes your system as underpowered, and not truly full-range.
Try this Mozart bit I sequenced
There is an important distinction that has been missed here. The article written by Mr. Bitran is about the Nordost Valhalla 2 (V2) in a specific system, in a specific show, on a specific day. And that was the extent of of the article. The two positive comments, one of which was mine, were both about the V2 used in a home based system by two different consumers. All the discussion about this other cable and testing this or that has absolutely no relevancy whatsoever. That is like saying because you test drove a Ford and didn't like it you would never buy a Chevy. What ever anyone feels about "other" high end cables, or even the whole concept of reference cables, has no bearing at all on the legitimacy of the V2 cable. The only legitimate argument, as it pertains to the article, is whether or not the V2 cable offers a sonic improvement in your system. I found a significant improvement, so did the other person who responded favorably, and so did Mr. Bitran. So if anyone has not tested the V2 cable in their system, whether by purchase or by loan, then no inference about whether or not the cable lives up to it's claims can legitimately be made. Criticize all you would like, but it is simply conjecture.
There is also a lot of discussion regarding cost. Why does cost even matter? Either you can afford and more importantly justify the cost or you cannot. High end audio has never been about affordability and likely never will be. Every audiophile with a significant other understands that. If the cost of a V2 cable is so outrageous, then what is acceptable? A $1000.00 cable? Or a $500.00 cable? Maybe a $100.00 cable? If you can justify a $1000.00 cable the people who would only spend a $100.00 would think you are wasting your money. But you had no problem at all spending a $1000.00. If it was only about cost then the most practical way to listen to music would be a very inexpensive MP3 player. There would be no need for high end audio. But that is not how it works.
There is nothing wrong with a system that costs $3000.00, $5000.00 or even $10,000.00. They are all capable of producing great music. But like it or not, there are those people who have $100,000.00, $200,000.00 and more invested in an audio system. Just because those people have affordability on a larger scale are they therefore wrong? I have had very inexpensive cables and interconnects and found them inferior to the products that I now have. That is proof enough to me that the claims made by Nordost are true. As well as the other Nordost Odin, Valhalla and Tyr II cables I already have prove the point. And if that is not enough, my own ears are the definitive judge.
Because at the end of the day, no scientist, engineer, PhD or anyone else will ever be as much of an expert as I am as to how my system sounds in my home. That is the bottom line.
Because at the end of the day, no scientist, engineer, PhD or anyone else will ever be as much of an expert as I am as to how my system sounds in my home. That is the bottom line.
Believe what you will. Double-blind tests have a way of making declarations such as yours appear very, very foolish when scrutinized by those silly scientists and intellectuals and their ridiculous "scientific method."
Apparently you make an exception to your "I know better than anyone" rule for Nordost's "engineers" (if you can call them that). You put your faith in the designers of grossly overpriced cables. Everyone else? Just fools who believe in science instead of marketing hype.
I've repeatedly noted that the super-rich are free to buy whatever they want and feel good about it. I encourage it, because free spending leads to job creation—at least that's what Ronald Reagan said. Without access to speaker cables and bottles of wine that cost more than cars, being rich would be soooo boring. But make no mistake, there is NO performance advantage—it's even possible for exotic cables to screw up the sound by failing to perform a primary task: act like a cable, not like a filter.
I will never tire of this article debunking the value of expensive cables.
I move my listening chair an inch to the left and the sound changes. I find this contention that cables are irrelevant to be tiring. NEARLY EVERYTHING MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
It's tiring because why? The contribution of speaker cables has been studied and debunked countless times through scientific testing, so all that's left is a cadre of true believers insisting "but I can hear the difference, so it MUST be real." That's not science, that's religion—which means engineering isn't really a part of the equation.
The law of diminishing returns hits cables very hard. Just about everything else one could do makes a much bigger difference in terms of SQ, including the act of moving your head an inch! The notion that the difference one hears is attributable to a cable, or the sum of all cables, is very silly indeed.
Manufacturer's demos are—by their very nature—are suspect. The contribution of speaker cables to a system's performance is miniscule by any standard. Exploiting that miniscule, admittedly measurable difference is the name of the game. That game is called "sales and marketing," and it has fooled many folks over the ages, including the best and brightest.
Good luck with your audio adventures. I think you are going down the wrong path, but it's the path of your choosing, and evidently you have company. I certainly don't claim that cables are irrelevant. They need to be of adequate quality to perform their task, of an appropriate gauge yada yada. But there's the law of diminishing returns to look out for, and it hits cables really, really hard.
I merely point out the folly in attributing—on blind faith—the difference you (and others) heard at the Nordost demo, to the cables. Bernie Madoff took rich people's money, too.
I'd love to settle the debate by stepping away from absolutes. I will allow for a 1% possibility that Nordost cables do what they claim, if you allow for a 1% possibility that they do not. That would be agreement enough for me.
Certainly, if the exercise is to simply examine how different components sound, it is necessary to listen to exotic cables and to form an opinion on their effect on a system. I suggest that a dose of skepticism and a very critical outlook serves one well, because IF one gets fooled because the speaker-cable industry is not totally immune to human folly, then the cost is severe, except for those to whom this amount of money is trivial.
I start with metering. I don't end with it. We agree on that, in the end the ear—and the person—need to be the judge of what's transcendent. When I "get it right", my system provokes goosebumps on a regular basis. For the most part, only very high-end systems have done that to me in the past, systems equipped with exotic cables.
Now, I can reproduce the entirety of the high-end experience with my frankensystem, and the one thing I found required no attention was cabling. I also say that as a musician. I have over 100 tracks on soundcloud.com, and many of them will test a stereo system's capabilities quite well. here's a link to my profile: https://soundcloud.com/psychedelicious
I've been in a room full of meter-heads, I know the folly of that way of thinking as well.
I like to think of hi-fi like food. You can get a cheeseburger from the diner down the block or you can get it from the really nice place downtown. Yes, they both use meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomato, but the quality of sources, cooking process, expertise of chefs, and presentation all determine the final enjoyment. If the diner makes the better burger, then more power to you, the informed consumer. You don't have to get your burger at the fancy place anymore to get your fill. But if the nice place takes the concept of "burger" to the next level, then it's worth the added value.
My wife happens to be the Zagat editor for Philadelphia, a city with many fine restaurants. If there's one topic I'm immersed in all the time, it's food. If there's one pursuit where I get to enjoy the exact same service and product as the ultra-rich, it's food.
The burger analogy is particularly apt, I've experienced the whole gamut from $5 to $100+ burgers. It's the same thing I've been saying about speaker cables—the really pricey ones are almost always gimmick. Even when there's substance behind the gimmick. the price is artificially inflated, just to "qualify" it as a rich-person's "product," while offering no tangible qualitative benefit to the consumer.
Last month, Morimoto prepared a sushi dish for my wife and I. The whole restaurant came to a standstill, to watch the Iron Chef at work. The end result would have cost us a whole lot more than the sushi we usually eat. It certainly had incredible aesthetic appeal. Was is tangibly better than other sushi I have had? No. The entire "value" of the experience was in the attention we received, because Morimoto was actually making our food, instead of someone else who earns a lot less money.
My point it that the value of the meal was based on its exclusivity, not on its quality. That happens all the time with food.
Remind me of my father- he can't enjoy a restaurant meal if he knows the price.
Often, when I go out to dinner I, cost is no object; the chefs are always personally attentive, and I dine high-end all the time. Often I don't even have to order from the menu, I just have a chat with the chef. My current situation consists of not having enough time to take advantage of all the dining opportunities that present themselves each week.
When it comes to food, I have enough experience to know that money does not directly correlate to quality. It does buy ambiance, slick sales pitches, awesome presentation, and good customer service. Owning (or eating, or drinking) something expensive does boost the ego. I love being mistaken for a celebrity, because of the great, attentive service my wife and I get when we dine out. I could see spending money to maintain that illusion 24/7, if I had the cash to spare. Seriously, why not!
Your wife (and you by association) is in a situation better than being monied, you have power. And that power is not benevolent.
You (ok, your wife) wield the same power as an executioner and a torturer.
Tell me your ego is not orgasming...
I understand now.
You rely on an "article" for good science? Most of these "experimental" situations are designed and executed so poorly that one can't possible come to any valid conclusions. For all we know...
-the experimental design was crap
-testing equipment was crap
-the test listeners were all 58 year old construction workers with colds and hearing problems
-Monster cable tested = coat hangers = crap!
Considering how proponents of exotic cables are willing to dispense with both science and common sense, I figure anything goes—including internet polls and articles that expose the hogwash.
Bad science is crap, bad science taken seriously is even worse. Marketing and hype is no better.
It agree 100 percent. "Bad Science" is just a synonym for "mistake," and a mistake that's taken seriously - as fact- should be avoided.
I rely on my experience and my own system and my ears and also measuring devices. I rely on 25 years of HiFi fanaticism. I rely on my ears, which still test well for full-range hearing and that have trained through the process of becomeing a musicial and a producer.
I'm not relying on an article for anything but a nice simple anecdote about how silly all this exotic cable talk is. I'm still waiting for factual figures on how fast electrons travel through radio Shack speaker cable. Can anyone help?
Some requirements of good science is replication and verification. If your experience, your ears, your system and measuring devices tell you that the world of cables is "flat", then so be it. If you hear no difference whatsoever with any cables, then that's your own experience.
If someone else with their own ears uses your system, your measuring devices, and even your choice of testing material (tones? elevator music?) and consistently hears a difference with different cables (and happens to prefer cable XYZ), what then? Does that negate your experience? No, just brings up more questions to investigate.
Good science can tell why you can't hear a difference with all the cables you've tried. But not the way you do science.
Peoples' experience used to tell them the world "out there" was flat, then someone stepped onto a boat and stayed onboard long enough to tell them otherwise.
Just because you can't hear it (or appreciate the difference?), doesn't mean others can't.
Peoples' experience used to tell them the world "out there" was flat, then someone stepped onto a boat and stayed onboard long enough to tell them otherwise.
Not true...
"The myth of the Flat Earth is the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical."
Then speaking of truth, how does your "truth" become somebody else's? Because you say so?
Of course not. I can't guarantee that I am right about exotic cables and interconnects—I can only express confidence in my opinions. What I can do is share any conjectures, hypotheses and theories I might have on the subject.
I never said all cables sound the same. I said there is no correlation between price and sound quality, and that exotic cables do not perform in a manner superior to well-engineered cables that cost much, much less.
In the analog realm, there are variables to account for which can affect a cable's performance. What I do claim is that a competently manufactured cable of a specifice gauge and resistance and without defect acts as a relatively transparent conduit, the quality of which is hard to improve upon. That's the law of diminishing returns at work. If it acts like a cable, it's a cable. Otherwise, it's a filter. If we're talking filters, then the sky's the limit, anything goes.
Over 400 people voted on this poll, the majority of voters did not hear exotic cables offer any improvement, and a mere 7% think they heard exotic cables offer significant improvement in sound quality.
Yeah, that was an un-smooth maneuver. I've got to go do a photo shoot but "I'll be back," lol. Touche.
Check out my soundcloud profile though, I think you might like some of what you hear.
Figuratively speaking, if their ears are broken and their minds are closed, sure.
What's amazing here is that neither Nordost or the author of this article can clearly state what technical characteristic creates the alleged sonic improvement that brings Valhalla 2 above Valhalla 1.
Is it a case of changing the shape of the front handles that makes amp 2 better than amp 1?
You're the only one asking this question. I guess they can't hear you.
The following list below should end this debate about cables:
For the folks on a budget http://www.monoprice.com/
For the folks who can spend a little more: http://www.bluejeanscable.com/
And the people who own a money tree: http://www.nordost.com/
What we really need is for Stereophile to use DBTs and actually do measurements on cables but of course they won't and never will, BECAUSE that would show us what really is going on and THAT would hurt cable sales tremendously. So what we get is half truths, conjecture and subjective listening with all it's flaws so cable companies can say whatever they like as long as people like Mr Serinus "hears" a "big" difference. It is 100% likely Mr Serinus will, that is why i never take what he reports as fact.
Ariel related that he heard a difference in the sound characteristics between the V1 and V2, and described that difference in a positive manner. Psychedelicious asserts that Ariel was either deceived, or that he may have heard some miniscule difference that was only subjectively better.
Psychedelicious asserts that well-engineered cables essentially perform the same, or at least close enough that large increases in the cost of cables past a certain point are a deception by the manufacturers of such cables, tantamount to shysterism. He also insinuates that people with the means to afford such cables only buy them to assuage their insecurities or feed their egos. Although he asserts that measurements are only a beginning point to discerning quality difference between equipment, he also asserts that differences between products which are not measureable either do not exist or are insignificant. He believes statistical data and anecdotes which support his standpoints and discounts that which doesn't.
Ariel believes cables can make a difference, and at this point does not have a stated opinion on whether there is significant difference between cables of varying cost. He does not openly pass judgement on cable manufacturers who sell very expensive cables, or people who buy them. He believes statistical data and anecdotal evidence which supports his standpoints and discounts that which doesn't.
I hope I have accurately presented the two major opinions in this thread. I'm just a little agitated at myself for wasting so much time reading through it all. Since the last 3 pages have pretty much only regurgitated the above information ad nauseum, and there is no hint of anybody changing their opinions, and there is no hint that any new information or new viewpoint may surface any time soon, why don't we all step away from the keyboards and do something else? It's nice outside.
that anyone who works for Stereophile does not and never will admit to being wrong. That is JA's main motto, "I'm never wrong" Add into the equation that he won't do DBTs and says that they are "too hard" or "flawed" and you get the recipie for Stereophile which is , show measurements for the most difficult to measure components and judge them on that and then do zero measurememnts on components that are simple to measure and rely upon subjective opinion to judge those. This way he can include the overpriced rediculous cable and power cord "reviews" and not have to explain himself. A really neat way to sidestep the situation, objectivity combined with subjectivity so we end up with a hopelessly screwed up review system with JA and company never having to admit that he is wrong.
For future reference about ANY cable/power cord "review" from Stereophile, just remember that it's all about subjective opinion and zero facts.
Be dazzled by the fantastical worlds that spew forth from Psycho-Georgie's Mind!
You are not going to do a DBT or SBT when trying out the Nordost cables I take it. How about a simple cable switch without you knowing which is which and writing down your guesses? Not even that? Try 3 different cables in all. Lowly Radio Shack, Blue Jean and Nordost. Interesting if you can pick which is which. If you CAN pick which is which THEN how about a simple frequency response test of each cable along with the LCR so we can see what MAY be causing the "sound differences". You are curious enough to try this no?
GeorgeHolland, you're incorrect on a few levels. Stereophile does admit to being wrong from time to time. The most infamous example that comes to mind is the Carver Challenge.
Secondly, when one divorces subjectivity from objectivity, one is left with a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets don't interpret themselves, and for the average human being they're boring as hell to read. The fact that you waste large amounts of time criticizing an audiophile magazine for the method in which they approach their reviews on their own forum pages proves my point. You may cringe and howl and cry foul at what you perceive to be dishonest or pointless journalism, but you are still reading it and you are still spending your own time and devoting your own energies to responding. You may hate Stereophile's method, but your own output proves you find it more interesting than some other mythical media outlet that provides factual information without subjective opinion. Facts are meaningless without interpretation.
I've never heard from any journalist who thinks DBTs are worthwhile. You may think they're scared of being proven wrong, and you're probably partly right. But I don't want to see DBTs in reviews. DBTs are a test for the reviewer, not the speaker. When I read a review, I want to hear how the speaker performs. I can tell for myself if I trust the reviewer's judgment based on the body of their work.
Bottom line for me is, I do understand what you're saying. To be frank, I agree with you in part; I think boutique cables are largely snake oil and in the grand scheme of things, they are the least important link in the chain from source to ear. And I am cynical when I read reports on exotic cables(and, for that matter, any gear too far beyond my budget).
The point I'm trying to make is it doesn't matter. You've made your case, nicely nestled between Psychedelicious and that moron with the Calvin avatar. The time and energy you are putting in may make you feel a little better about your frustrations(just like the time I'm putting in makes me feel better about mine), but it's not going to make Atkinson admit he's wrong, nor will it make Stereophile even reconsider exchanging its format of flourishing flowery and ecstatic prose at pieces of audio gear or homoerotic boutique cables in favor of spreadsheets and machine language. It will not stop self-indulgent, moneyed people from buying mystical audio cables, nor will it stop enterprising hucksters from making said cables. You've said your piece and nobody cares except for the people who already care, so take a breath and get on with your life.
Georgie's turning blue! No one told him to let that breath out!!
Sorry but DBT, SBT or at the very least what I proposed to Ariel is easy enough to do but of course he won't. JA won't let him. A long as JA and company let "reviewers" (I use that term with a cringe for people like Mr Serinus) spout praises for magic cables but do nothing to back up these claims with some simple testing, then Stereophile is in mine and other's opinions a farce. Get JA to admit he is ever wrong, he won't. The jitter fiasco talk he gave a few years back was brought up in a thread and he just ignored it. Nope, JA won't admit to wrong doing and his laziness is par none for refusing to test tweak products.
Areil's silence to my request for SOME sort of testing is sign enough for me to know NOTHING will be done. He will just do the typical subjective listen and come to a subjective conclusion ho hum.
Psycho-Georgie just doesn't understand science....
Here's 134 pages of people who would love to read about DBTs: http://www.head-fi.org/t/486598/testing-audiophile-claims-and-myths
You know who doesn't want to read DBTs? People who spend tens of thousands of dollars on cables.
Any college kid can tell you that these tests are poorly done and the results meaningless.
Fantastic! Okay, now say it again, but word it slightly differently.
Here's a great article, and don't forget to read the editor's note at the end: http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_11_4/feature-article-blind-test-power-cords-12-2004.html
But of course those dyed-in-the-wool audiophools that already have their minds made up will NEVER bother to read them. Why learn anything new when you can just throw $10,000 at a "sexy" power cord and go along your way still as ignorant as ever? Is the last link you posted the one Mr Serinus refers to when he says he will never participate in a ABX or DBT again? Hmmmmm sounds about right, I mean he ALWAYS hears a difference yet didn't do too well in the ABX test now did he? Got his lil Golden Ears burned. You would think he would have kept participating in ABX tests but then again that would have shown over and over that in reality, he can't tell the difference and THAT would have broken his fantasy world and his pay check for writing fluff subjective articles about how cables sound different. Oh well I guess he's a happy lad pretending it didn't happen.
I LOVE this part where JA talks about blind listening tests of amplifiers
"But when you have taken part in a number of these blind tests and experienced how two amplifiers you know from personal experience to sound extremely different can still fail to be identified under blind conditions, then perhaps an alternative hypothesis is called for: that the very procedure of a blind listening test can conceal small but real subjective differences. Having taken part in quite a number of such blind tests, I have become convinced of the truth in this hypothesis"
So instead of facing facts that those two amps in fact do sound alike because JA couldn't tell one for the other, he goes into denial and comes up with a false hypothesis explaining away why blind tests are "flawed" Too funny and too sad. Here we can see the turning point where both JA and Mr Serinus turned away from the truth and decided to just make stuff up for the years afterward.
You still haven't taken any high school level science courses, it still shows... The level of science in all of these articles is quite poor.
Intelligent design, that's what you are selling here. Of course you don't agree with science, your agenda demands ignorance and the bliss it brings.
Here are two fatal flaws in this "experiment" any college student can spot:
1) Too many power cords changed= too many uncontrolled, untested variables
2) Too small sample size= insufficient data= inconclusive statistics
There are others mistakes, but even these two factors invalidate this test.
The whole thing was fatally flawed. Unbeknownst to me, engineer Manny La Carrubba, whom I had asked to help devise test methodology and run the thing, was out to prove that power cables can't make a difference. Despite my protestations, he insisted on putting up a huge, thick curtain of green felt in front of the entire system. It severely damped the treble, smoothed over detail, and killed depth. So many of the virtues of the Nordost power cables were smothered in the process.
I saw what was happening, but I didn't have an alternative we could use on short notice. To compensate for the unexpected dullness of sound, I played the system very loud, which fatigued people. The musical extracts were very short; people hardly began to take them in when they were over. And because we were constantly switching amps on and off, and jerking cables around like nobody's business, nothing was operating optimally. By the end of each session, some people were waving a metaphorical white flag, thankful the whole thing was over.
You guys can post for 20 more pages about this, and call me and everyone else at Stereophile every name in the book. But the test was a farce, and anyone trying to use it to prove something only proves one thing: they'll grasp at anything other than admit that cables make a difference.
No, I'm not going to respond to comments about this. Say anything you want about me. Go to it. Knock yourselves out. My days of participating in circle jerks are long past. As is my tolerance for anonymous posts and fantasy identities. I'd much rather attend concerts, listen to my system, and write about music.
Bad science is worse amongst those like Psycho-Georgie and JRusskie, who have no clue about the simple rules of scientific methodolgy, experimental design, logic, and statistics. Blind acceptance of bad science must always be rejected.
There's likely a local college near you. Take a course or two, see the light....
Don't make me bring up your lame attempt at showing us all how a SBT should be done by those reviewers in Canada in their lame magazine that you touted as being the end all in cable tests. This was in a cable thread in the forums.They didn't even bother to make it blind and only swithed cables once, yet you crowed at how that is the way to do it. You are clueless.
Did you bother to read the last link by eugovector? It was written by Victor Serinus, the poster child of golden ear listening and endorsed by Nordost. Oopsie Chrissy, foot in mouth disease strikes you yet again.
the only thing that smells is your so called education. I see you have learned well from JA and Ariel, when confronted with facts just say something silly instead. Did you get your diploma from the school of make believe? Say hello to May Belt and Geof for me, your closest buddies on the forums, you certantly think alike.
That's not taught until grade 7... JRusskie will have to wait.
Yes Wikipedia is such a treasure trove of info, too bad you revert to posting stock answers to questions about why you don't even try a blind listening test.This coming from someone who can't even replace a speaker tweeter without it becoming a fiasco.I suggest you try some summer reading of your own and get some experience in the real world of "hands on" Did Atkinson steer you in that direction with a firm hand?
The good folks over at Hydrogenaudio forums don't seem to have any problems at all using ABX to determine if sound differences exist. Give that website a good read also.
I see Stereophile is still in the EXCUSE mode instead of the TRY IT mode.
Like George said earlier, nothing to come of the cable listening "test" but subjective hoo ha.
Here is a link to something with more depth than the dictionary type you posted. If Chrissy thinks she can handle some heavier reading then she is free to read the whole thread THEN post her usual insults because that's all she knows how to do.
When you stop trying to make sense of JRusskie, don't you find him disarmingly whacky?
Also posted before, these articles and "studies" are mostly crap. Good science seems to be beyond JRusskie and Psycho-Georgie, but not for those beyond a grade school education.
Ariel is Atkinson's lil "gofer" and won't do anything that Atkinson won't like.
I also get that any link anyone posts that you personaly don't agree with is "bogus" and not "real" science according to yourself.
I get that you are only here to act like a jerk but that's nothing new.
I get that you think your are some superior know it all but in reality you have shown everyone nothing but how much of an ass you can be. Congratulations .
Tell you what go to those forums and links I talked about and "educate" them in the "errors" of their ways. I bet they rip you a new one and eat you for breakfast so fast your head will spin. Of course you won't do it, you are too scared. Reply with whatever, who cares.
Will Areil read those links? I doubt it, he's too entrenched in Stereophile to bother looking at the rest of the world.
Did you know that, in North America, not knowing more than a 5th grader can make you a game show contestant?
The Spirits are about to speak!
Are they friendly spirits?
Friendly? Just Listen!
I suppose in Russia, the "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" is known as the "Boris and Natasha Show".
The point of an ABX test is to test the listener. There's no reason to do such a test other than to prove or disprove a person's ability to listen discriminately. The test may have validity for some reason or another but it doesn't belong in reviews or at-a-glance previews.
Personally, I have a lot of respect for the way Tyll Hertsens conducts his reviews and shootouts. He does measurements, and he also has a handful of short audio clips he uses for reviews. The clips are short enough that he can quickly cycle through them, and he's heard them so many times they have a semi-permanent place in his head. I don't care who you are, playing unfamiliar music in an unfamiliar environment with unfamiliar gear will produce nothing better than random results in an ABX test, unless the differences in sound are huge. To say nothing about whether boutique cabling makes a real difference.
As to the vitriolic childishness, why? Is it the internet, or do you all really have nothing better to do then act like middle school asses?
"I don't care who you are, playing unfamiliar music in an unfamiliar environment with unfamiliar gear will produce nothing better than random results in an ABX test, unless the differences in sound are huge. To say nothing about whether boutique cabling makes a real difference."
The point of ABX or DBT is that you get to take your time and listen as long as you like. It's not a timed event.If there really are sound differences, you should be able to pick those out. If not then what you thought you heard under sighted subjective listening is all in your head.
Mr Serinus seems to have no problem gushing about how cable X makes (insert favorite audiophool trendy adjective here) oh so much better everytime he eneters those rooms so perhaps he should try a little ABXing. He really failed that one time him and his pals tried DBT and the results showed nothing better than pure guessing so we won't hold our breaths on that.
Atkinson lets his members act like asses without much moderation on here so blame him for the back and forth. he even joins in at times so go figure
Anyone who has studied science of any kind at a college or university level, especially where research and statistics are involved, can see that most of these "studies" and experiments don't amount to much actual science. There are a few gems amongst that mish-mash collection of flotsam and jetsam-
You really have to wade through the rest of the garbage (have you seen the dates of some of these "studies"?) to find these...
As for flinging poo, I, unabashedly, find great sport in mocking and deriding those like JRusskie and Psycho-Georgie who are rude, ill-mannered, unintelligent, and uninterested in engaging in civil discourse with anyone on this site or accompanying forums. They make for tiresome reading and take up space, so for entertainment, I just treat them in kind as they treat others.
That's how you act out and it's plain to see by everyone so can the "I just treat them in kind ans they treat others" How about going back and rereading how you STARTED it all by insulting George right off the bat. He did nothing to make you act like an ass never the less YOU are the one that had to open his mouth and spew crap. Thanks for clearing up nothing and causing this mess to go on and on.
Is Georgie hiding now?
Calvin, "the point" of said testing is to either test the listener or to test the cables. Given that our auditory memory is even shorter than our visual memory, especially when evaluating things such as aspects of a sound, listening to unfamiliar music in an unfamiliar environment on unfamiliar gear is not a set of conditions conducive to accurate listening--no matter how long you get to listen to the selection. In any case, an evaluation where the objective is to see if the listener can determine which cable is which is an evaluation of the listener, not the cable. Which is obviously why you suggest Stereophile and the like do these tests; you are already certain there is no real performance difference in exotic cables and you want Stereophile to perform tests like this to prove them wrong. Regardless of whether or not there is any real performance difference, we can all agree that of all the components in a system, the cabling makes the least amount of difference. Given that, blind testing is a terrible way to discern what is comparatively such a minuscule variance in performance. I'll again point to Tyll's methodology as the proper way to compare two audio components.
Jason, you screwed up by not ensuring you had proper controls on the test. It just makes you look worse trying to make excuses.
Chris, yesterday I disciplined my oldest boy for some pretty inexcusable behavior which included hitting his brother with a stick. As it turned out, his younger brother had been behaving like an ass all day, calling him silly names and pretty much doing everything he could to get a reaction out of him.
It reminded me of this thread, and pretty much the online audiophile world in general.
Areil and Atkinson won't bother with any type of objective test when it comes to cables. Might hurt the money machine ya know, advertising.
It's all been explained to him before... Good of you to try!
Their posts are not much use to anyone, so I make a "sport" out of their presence here.
Georgie's like you. Go back (way back) and read his posts.
What mess?
"Areil and Atkinson won't bother with any type of objective test when it comes to cables. Might hurt the money machine ya know, advertising."
I love how you always pick Atkinson's side when he wimps out. Stereophile has no honor, no integrity, no real value other than to straddle the fence when it comes to the real world. Either a component changes the sound or it doesn't. Why bother doing intensive testing of amps, preamps and DACs then wimp out when a simple piece of wire is involved? Atkinson says he doesn't know what to test when cables and magic bowls are the subject. You honestly believe that BS? Yesh I guess you would, now go get into your Stereophile cheerleader skirt Chrissy and "Rah rah rah!"
Still doesn't get it. Still in denial. Still the obtuse rock. Still wants the last word. Still acts out. Still believes everything Atkinson tells him. Still thinks he's smart. Still thinks the world revolves around himself. Still thinks he is important. Still thinks Russia is in the USA. Still thinks his lame "jokes" are funny. Still doesn't have any customers so sits on computer all day typing inane replies that only he thinks are witty. Still the total doofus. Still the butt of jokes behind his back. Still the ever lasting Sterophile resident troll. Still thinks that his replies bother me. ..I could go on and on but frankly you aren't worth it.
How important are you?
How long before cable is obsolete anyway? So who cares.


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Because you know who is really easy to love? Pretend children! They can be anyone you want them to be! That pretend boy can be the son you never had – who, manning up enough to stifle his tears, says at your funeral: "Everything important in life I learned from my father!" That pretend girl can be the daughter you might have taken to the daddy-daughter dance, where she would have worn a clean white frilly frock and looked up at you adoringly, pleading, "Twirl me again, Daddy. Please?"
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2. The Best Caregivers for Pretend Children are Pretend Mothers
It's not easy being nothing more than a projection of someone else's wishes, and pretend children have got to be taught how to do it, from… their pretend mothers!
Pretend mothers bond with their pretend children in ways you and I cannot understand, but can only observe with rapt piety. Is that pretend baby boy hungry or thirsty or tired? Ask his pretend mother; she will know. (Well, I mean, not know-know, obviously. It's not as though she has a unique set of circumstances requiring constant prudent judgment, let alone set of specific skills that are a credit to her. I just mean that she will know, in the same mystical and precious way that the apple tree "knows" when it's spring or a lamp "knows" how to give light. Things do what they're designed by someone else to do, you get me?)
She's hard to spot – the pretend mother, I mean – because she takes up so little space. Or perhaps I should say she takes up just enough space to remind us that good mothers don't take up too much space. Occasionally we'll catch a glimpse of her, yielding and compliant; suffering even the worst indignities with a shrug, a good attitude, and heroic self-sacrifice for which she never asks for credit. "Little old me?" she asks, smiling demurely and looking at the floor, revealing the lines around her eyes that have come from years of smiling beatifically. "Oh, heavens. It was nothing."
And in fact it was nothing because – being pretend – she doesn't actually need social support, or an income, or to be assigned work that bears some relation to her unique interests and skills, or recognition for that work, or the ability to exercise any control over her own circumstances. She doesn't even really exist! You gotta love that about her!
Corollary to 2: Actual human women are not and never will be pretend mothers. Pretend mothers don't exist. Actual human women are actual humans, whether or not they have children. Religious anti-choice conservatives, are you prepared to say otherwise and see what that gets you in terms of political capital? No? GREAT. FINE. AWESOME. I ASSUME THAT WE AGREE. THANK YOU.
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