Internet blind comparison of two USB cables

[ray-dude]

I would suggest that whomever does the digital capture compares the captured files to confirm that they are hearing a similar difference to what they hear in their system.  If they do not, then that needs to be solved for before doing any blinded survey.  I appreciate the spirit of this test and interested to see the outcome, but best to not have the interpretation devolve into a debate about whether the results apply to the capture methodology, vs whether the results apply to the cables under test.  

 

(bias disclosure: I've done tests with friends with Lush^2 cables in my living room (I knew which cable was which, they did not), and differences were obvious and consistent, both against stock cables and between some Lush^2 configurations).

[ray-dude]

If helpful, if someone were willing to loan me an appropriate ADC, I'm happy to devote an afternoon to capturing files from these tests (both direct from laptop, and from an optimized source)  I would then ask one of the civilians in the house to rename the files and load them for playback, and report whether I can hear differences between them.  

 

As a bonus, I'm doing a lot with upsampling for signal reconstruction.  It would be interesting to have quality ADC captures of 1fs content vs 16fs content and see what the ADC shows us.

 

(note: this is an OS X house, so I'd appreciate if any loaners have capture software that runs on OS X, although I could check around for a windows laptop if need be)