Who says cables don't make a difference?

georgemgraves
boxer12;

I have ever made a comment about ICs, cheap or expensive. You have me confused with someone else, I’m afraid.

About your electromagnetic radiation comment. You are assuming that it is always present in all systems in enough quantity to audibly affect the signal being conducted. There is no evidence that I know of that supports that assumption. While possible, it should certainly be easy enough to test that hypothesis. If there was anything to it, I would suspect that cable manufacturers of interconnects whose designs yielded the lowest interference measurements would use those in their advertising to increase sales and making choosing interconnects easier for customers. But no such tests or measurements seem to exist. If “boutique” cable manufacturers actually try to technically explain their product’s superiority, they usually do it with technological nonsense. Most companies don’t bother to explain what even they don’t understand.

>>>I suspect this might be a case of I haven’t found any evidence so it must not exist. It sounds like you have an ax to grind but if you can provide any what you believe to be “technological nonsense” from high end cable manufacturers please be my guest. Share, share!

“In my considerable experience....” 

>>>>If you don’t say so yourself. 😃

" “I dont know why this subject is not only controversial but all around all time....”

Because there are so many pseudo claims in the name of science behind a simple copper or silver wire to transform your audio system. "
  Pretty much what I think too. 12g zip cord work just fine.

Isn’t it pretty to think so? 

Many years ago I had a very modest system with Carver amplification and Platinum Audio's $800 entry floor standing speakers.  I bought them from my local Platinum dealer who often let me take used equipment home on a Saturday afternoon to have a weekend audition.  I took some XLO $1200 IC home one weekend.  One of my friends was into car audio and was a judge for competitions in Toronto.  We did A-B to my $40 MIT IC over and over and neither could ever tell a difference.  

I don't recall the publication but the article was titled, To Tweak or Not To Tweak.  It was an extreme comparison of two systems where the only common piece was the speakers and everything behind the curtain was uber cheap on one and nice on the other.  He had a panel of 10 that ranged from the typical house wife who couldn't care less to audiophiles and had them guess which system they were hearing.  It was a complete toss-up where audiophiles would swear it was the upgraded system and was his homemade amp with 50 feet of radioshack zipcord for wire.

Back to my Platinum dealer.  I told him I couldn't hear anything and he asked me with sincerity....do you want to hear the difference??  He said it is a learned skill and that if I did....we would spend a couple hours in his store and he could teach me.  The problem he said was once I learned and truly heard I could never go back and would forever want to add cabling to my list of upgrades.  I passed on the lesson.

Today I hear obvious improvements when I change amps, preamps, speakers and cartridges.  I simply don't ever try different cables.  I use stock power cords.  I bought a bulk used lot of Audioquest speaker wire many years ago and have added the DiamondBack line of IC and have simply just left it alone.  

I trust people that swear by this as they crossed over that bridge and now know.  Maybe one day I will experiment, but I am not there yet.