I'd offer anyone, anyone of you who say this is placebo, the chance to come and hear the differences between my three previous AudioQuest, Mogami and Atlas Cables. But you already know how they perform in my system, through the power of your keyboards and sixth sense.
I agree, you or anyone can't tell me what i hear, simply because of the circumstances mentioned above.
The irony is nearly ALL who've actually tried this cable on the 30 Day trail have NOT sent it back. Yet all the naysayers haven't even heard it in any way shape or form .... go figure.!
and yet, this same man offers cable advice to another whose system he has never heard, whose room is totally undescribed and which sound is a total mystery...
"Nice kit but i wouldn't be spending LS-50 money on it. A 2.5m pair will set you back £1100...
Putting my neck out here, but for that system i'd imagine AudioQuest would be best suited. Rocket 44 could be perfect".
Oh I'm sure you can explain the irony, just as you certainly understand all the references you link to in the wikepedia above.
Listen, you've bought a good cable. I agree it's fine I'm sure and in fairness, not even close to the crazy prices of Nordost and etc, and the sound suits your system so that's top stuff. But you really should investigate the placebo effect. It's not a personal insult and frankly I'm a bit taken aback that any intelligent adult doesn't realise just how ones own brain can be fooled when one allows oneself to be convinced about something.
a link for you
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-placebo-effect-2795466
scroll down to ...in Psychology experiments.
I'd also suggest you give some credence to the suggestion upthread that we, specifically our hearing, adapts to sound over a period of time. What some claim is 'run in' or 'burn in' is just us listening differently.
Whenever I do 'critical listening' I take one, very short, very familiar piece of music...a snatch of Cello from Beethoven's 5th symphony in fact, just 20 seconds long, because I am aware that the human audio memory is that short. In the time it takes to hear it, and then swap (cables for example) and then listen again, I cannot be certain that every nuance (and it is nuances that we must be discussing here) of what I previously heard can be accurately remembered. So this tiny piece is all I can be sure to recall. That's worth trying.
Oh one final final thing. Negative Placebo also must exist. For every action a reaction? So if it's possible to convince ourselves that we hear the changes we want to hear (which it is) then it must, equally, be possible to convince ourselves that we WON'T hear any...which it also is.
Moral. Buy what you like in that knowledge, but never, for the future of HiFi kit and forums, never stop arguing about it all