To All Cable Deniers, 1 Very Simple Question.

What's funny to me about the "believers" vs. "deniers" debate is that it's typical for no one to seriously investigate the question, "Have the bigger kinks in the audio chain been identified and addressed?"

Mahgister talks about this a lot -- and he's absolutely right.

No one should bother with cable expenditures if their room is a mess or even not very good. Or not treated. Or their amp. Or speaker positioning. Or their preamp. And on and on.

It's fun to have debates, but in my experience people debating cables are like steak connoisseurs debating flavor when there's ketchup dumped all of the steak. They're just too encumbered (by circumstances) or too lazy to answer basic questions affecting 50% of the sound -- the room.

I found long ago that experimenting on ones own is best because we all hear differently, and I wasn't making any progress listening to others tell me what I should not hear.

That is true, but it has to be based on some educated assumption, otherwise we are in voodoo territory.  Shall I expect better bass by placing my amp lower on the floor or better highs when it is on the upper shelf?   Do black cables bring darker background (shall I experiment?).

Usually in those cable free-for-alls, the more ignorant of science and less educated the posters are, the more strident and unmoored from reality they sound. On both sides.