Just some good reading

Spudzzmurphy

http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2011/12/30/audiophiles-and-the-need-to-be-special/

coylemj

None of those self-styled audiophiles are on boards anymore. There are some fora on boards (not audio or hi-fi) where snootiness of the highest order meets anyone who dares to ask a 'stupid' question and they get ridiculed or given the answer to the question they really should have asked. I'm not going to say which fora but the audio bigots aren't here.

I once (on boards) questioned the sanity of people prepared to buy silver power cables to connect the amp to the socket on the wall and got severely told off for my heresy. As with religious nuts, people believe what they want to believe and telling them anything else is a waste of time.

Audio cable companies got away with murder for years with 'oxygen-free' copper and all that BS, they spent large amounts of cash advertising their snake oil products in audio magazines who in return gave them good 'reviews' and the conspiracy went on and on. What caused the gravy train to hit the buffers was when they tried the same hokum theories with HDMI cables. Respectable technical magazines called a halt to the smokescreen by stating quite simply that a zero was a zero and a one was a one so when it came to digital data, gold-plated or oxygen-free made not a squat of a difference and expensive HDMI cables were a complete waste of money and an outright confidence trick on the general public.

Since then the audiophiles have gone into their bunkers and have yet to emerge with any level of credibility.