Re: Audiophoolery. 'Cable Break In' - I never knew that!
The audio industry has a poor record when it comes to misleading marketing. Look at maximum power ratings, distortion and power measurements taken at 1kHz, and so on. Listening to test tones is not to everybody's taste and there is a need for a specification that reflects normal operating conditions (sounds like dieselgate?).
The reality is two systems with identical specification are not going to sound the same. Inter-modulation distortion in speakers must far outweigh any other distortion contributor but it gets no mention and the trend for smaller and longer excursion bass drivers must be making this worse.
Engineering and science has failed to provide meaningful standards for audio so it is perhaps unsurprising that consumers resort to blindly following the marketing twaddle.
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