Cable Snake Oil Antidote


Some might find this Cable Snake Oil Antidote interesting with respect to LRC, the signal and the system.

Cables affect the sound and the effect is system dependent.

Another's opinion on a cable in a vastly different system may not be valid.
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@rodman99999 

Doh!  Sometimes you gotta hit me in the head with a wake-up-stick.  I'm with you now.  Yeah...that's a low count compared to some of the deniers.  It's amazing to me how exercised some people get over what other people HEAR!   
@ghosthouse - So many variables(aural acuity/sources/systems/rooms/experience/training) and so much resistance(can’t work so I won’t try/won’t spend more than 50 Cents a foot for wire). Thus far, there’s no known metric, for most of the subtleties that wires and fuses can out, just as no one can really say, why two amps that measure exactly the same, can sound so different(to ALMOST anyone). No one has actually observed electrons, or- knows what’s happening electrically, on the quantum level, which begs the question: https://code.tutsplus.com/articles/do-you-suffer-from-the-dunning-kruger-effect--net-22227
Ahem...it’s not really the observation of electrons that’s the issue. It’s the observation of photons. We already know electrons are the charge carriers and are virtually at a standstill. We also know the mass of electrons. And we know the diameter. We also know the speed of photons in a conductor. So what’s not to know? Nobody has stepped up to the plate and answered the burning question, “Do photons have mass?”
@rodman99999 
measure exactly the same, can sound so different
"If it measures good and sounds bad, -- it is bad. If it sounds good and measures bad, -- you've measured the wrong thing." -- Daniel R. von Recklinghausen, HHScott

An awful lot of gear has appallingly bad phase response beginning with the power supplies all the way through the loudspeakers and most listeners are oblivious!

Phase response is almost never measured. Component variations may affect phase response more than frequency response. The ear is very sensitive to phase, less so to frequency.
@geoffkait - There’s a lot that is known, but- like I said, " Thus far, there’s no known metric, for most of the subtleties that wires and fuses can out...". No one has actually observed photons, in a conductor, either. And- like you said, " Nobody has stepped up to the plate and answered the burning question, “Do photons have mass?” Electrical Theory is called such for a reason. There are a few, "Laws" regarding electricity, but- still much that is theorized.  https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/162993/flow-of-electrons-in-electric-current and http://www.pbs.org/transistor/science/info/quantum.html Often, the more you learn, the more you learn you were wrong: https://www.mi.mun.ca/users/cchaulk/eltk1100/ivse/ivse.htm