Testing a hyposthesis is not always as straight forward as it might seem. In the 80's Pepsi won lot's of Coke business with little thimble sized blind taste sample they called "The Pepsi Challenge". Much was made of these results which consistently favored Pepsi over Coke. But it turns out that people only preferred Pepsi in thimble sized doses and they would still by Coke over Pepsi in 6 packs.
The cable debunkers remind me of this because they attempt to disprove cable differences with blind test using unfamiliar music on unfamiliar systems. This is the main flaw in the cable debunking tests. The reason there are so many hard core cable believers is because we test on our own systems with extremely well known music. We know our systems very intimately. When a subtle change is introduced it is blatantly obvious.
The cable debunkers remind me of this because they attempt to disprove cable differences with blind test using unfamiliar music on unfamiliar systems. This is the main flaw in the cable debunking tests. The reason there are so many hard core cable believers is because we test on our own systems with extremely well known music. We know our systems very intimately. When a subtle change is introduced it is blatantly obvious.