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byoung
Senior Member
Username: byoung

Post Number: 987
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 8:35 pm:   Edit Post

From http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showpost.php?s=97d4a3c39d247bf955a57b3953326a34&p=15412&postcount=28


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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
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 2965
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 8:59 pm:   Edit Post

Alembic Coat Hangers?

Bill, tgo
elwoodblue
Advanced Member
Username: elwoodblue

Post Number: 211
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 11:12 pm:   Edit Post

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
Senior Member
Username: 811952

Post Number: 1354
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 5:24 am:   Edit Post

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

John
811952
Senior Member
Username: 811952

Post Number: 1355
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 5:28 am:   Edit Post

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. :P (maybe "reliably" is not the word I'm looking for here)

John

(Message edited by 811952 on March 04, 2008)
paulman
Advanced Member
Username: paulman

Post Number: 279
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 7:29 am:   Edit Post

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

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