Hmmm too. How was that with Schroedinger‘s cat?
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Is this like
“If a USB cable makes a difference, but the guys wife isn’t there to hear the difference from the next room, did it really happen”
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Previously asked and answered.
Answered yes, settled not.
If there is falling it might be a tree (possibly within a forest). Or a bear (from a tree?).
We are getting into subjectivity and philosophy of language (which both are never ending debates).
If we stick to strictly science -which I think a Roon forum should do (but I am perfectly willing to agree to disgree)- the tree, the falling and the sound exist. Otherwise I like the reference to Schrodingers cat.
It takes perception to create an object; without that there is only potentiality.
Esse est percipi.
Sure, one can argue that this AS SUCH is needed to create an object IN OUR INDIVIDUAL MINDS. It really is a philosophical question if one can be certain anything other exists beyond our own minds. That is indeed which you are referring to, isn’t it? Your reference is one of many possible philosophical views. It can’t be proven right or wrong, because of what it in itself is. But I think this discussion is way out of the scope of this forum. It does not help to answer the question whether an USB cable can make any difference or not. (It is scientifically well established that it objectively can’t as long as everything is functioning correctly). Of course, subjectively everything is always possible. Consequently it is limited to that very person. (Side note: I find it pretty hard having this discussion in a language which is not my mother tongue…, hope native speakers don’t burst out laughing…).
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No, I am saying that until a sentient being, e.g. a cat or a human or whatever, sees (or hears or otherwise senses some ‘thing’) then that ‘thing’ has yet to be defined out of a universal matrix and as soon as it has stopped being sensed then it sinks back into that matrix. Vacuum energy is the way physics might describe it.
That’s what behind the whole parable of a deity having Adam name things.
I suppose now you can ‘kick a stone’ to prove me wrong.
On that we can agree. I’m out. 
AudioQuest product suggestion: Schrödinger’s Cable.
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I like it! The resultant sound stage can be thought of as both good and bad.
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It both does, and doesn’t make a difference
Boutique USB Cables and Viagra got one thing in common. If everything is ok, you don’t need it.
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