How accurate are cable descriptions for your system?

If you get 10 guys saying what a cable sounds like and they all agree, or the majority agree you can bet that the description is a good evaluation. Now in your system they may or may not be as dramatic or more dramatic because it’s the interaction with the gear it’s hooked up to that makes a bigger difference.

Exactly!

And any cables improvement is minor , save if you own bad cables, compared to electrical noise floor control, vibrations control, and acoustical control...

Discussing cables is a plague among audiophiles, not because they dont made a difference but because they made one, a minor one... This focus our attention in a secondary factor among other secondary factors...The main factors are the three i just mentionned...

Cables and price tag of gear are only some blinders...If someone want to see clearly he must experiment with the three working dimensions of any audio system...At any price...

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Use only the highest resolution cables PURIST and TARA LABS MUSE speaker wire they make a big difference in sound.

Discussing cables is a plague among audiophiles...

I think you are right but that final cable selection is what brings the best out of my systems. Once that is done I've got it as good as it is going to get. (I have a selection of cables to try until I find the perfect fit)

@williewonka 

Thank you for taking the time to post here. I was going to respond to OP after my initial post but your post sums it up very nicely. IMO, cables are just as important as your components and room acoustics. And you gotta hear them in your system rather than relying on reviewers and manufacturers description. For me, If I am interested in a cable or component, my ultimate test is to hear them in my system. The reviews and manufacturer description serves as reference point only. I trust my ears and years of experience above anything else. Let me reiterate what you said before this thread get derailed by cable naysayers :-) 

This hobby is very subjective

• no two systems are alike
• no two listening environments are alike
• no two individuals hearing are alike
• no two musical tastes are alike

Cheers! 

Let me reiterate what you said before this thread get derailed by cable naysayers :-

When i say that cable are secondary, i means when you own great one it is over... And there exist great one at all prices like the gear...

Saying that cables is important as acoustic and are on the same level is pure ignorance of acoustic...

I am not a "cable naysayers" i am an acoustic experimenters...You are not...Buying gear and cables is not buying knowledge sorry....

This hobby is very subjective

• no two systems are alike
• no two listening environments are alike
• no two individuals hearing are alike
• no two musical tastes are alike

This hobby is very objective too:

mechanical control and electrical noise floor control and acoustical control are OBJECTIVE factors...

And forget audiophile gear inspired engineering marketing vocabulary, read about acoustic and psycho-acoustic vocabulary...

We learn to listen by acoustic listening experiments not by buying the gear and plugging it and hearing the difference and merely ascertain a difference with our past gear...This is fetichism not steps in the way of learning to listen...

What we listen to in a room is defined by rigorous already existing concept in acoustic...