Coat hangers were not invented until 1900, but flush loos were seen at the Great Exhibition of 1851.

ECONOMIST: 19th-century domesticity

The group was A-Bing different cables, and unbeknownst to them, the engineer running the test swapped out a set of cables for coat hangers with soldered-on speaker connections.

ENGADGET: Audiophiles can't tell the difference between Monster Cable and coat hangers

Still, our belief is one thing -- cold hard proof is another, and it looks like a group of 12 self-professed "audiophiles" recently couldn't tell the difference between Monster 1000 speaker cables and plain old coat hangers.

ENGADGET: Audiophiles can't tell the difference between Monster Cable and coat hangers

None of them were secure and all could be easily opened by a variety of simple techniques including the use of paper clips, straws, brass strips of metal, vibration, shock, coat hangers, and other methods that could easily be figured out by kids.

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