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The result: Customers overestimate their ability and buy fancier stuff than they need
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Can we *really* hear the difference $7,000 speaker cables make? What about $100 cables?
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Notes on the psychology behind this plan
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I sense a disturbance in the literature about parapsychology
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They may be good for business, but you still shouldn't drop your pants in a lecture hall
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Thanks for the link!
I find the new Radiohead album quite good.
Six quid ;-)
Regarding the expensive audio cables:
Off and on I've been reading "Hi-Fi" magazines for almost 40 years. I'm presently in an "off" phase.
Nothing I've ever read in them has changed by basic philosophy: Listen to the music, and stop listening to the equipment!