Cable Wars - ASR Review of Kimber KS 1036 Silver RCA Cable ($4500 pair)

If your room acoustics are bad, every claim you make will be taken with a grain of salt.

@jasonbourne71 are you sure you weren’t thinking of the early 80s for Audioquest?  Bill started his company in 1980. Must of gotten ahold of some good Thai stick to lose the time. 😝 

Phasing information IMHO is hugely important and not touched by ASR or other typical measurements. Phase boundaries in drawn wire causes impedance variation with frequency and phase variation in waveforms. 
 

What do I know? A lot about material science and how crystals nucleate. 

@jasonbourne71 Back in the late 70’s AudioQuest sent their dealers a passive comparator box which allowed switching between four RCA cables. My local HiFi store had one. We tried it. Nobody could tell any of the four cables apart! That’s why I know that claimed differences in cable sound do NOT exist.

Wow, there it is.  A test 50+ years ago, on 70s grade audio gear, plugged into a passive switcher box which in itself impacts the sound... rendering poor sound quality - this is absolutely believable. Same impactful result occurs with those old passive speaker switcher boxes too.  I have one here now.  It’s likely they all did sound similar, no real difference - in that particular test case scenario.   

Is this the root of your basis for repeatedly stating sound differences don’t exist?

I wonder if the debate over cables has ever changed anyone's mind. Has anyone ever said, "Gee, considering your well-stated argument, I've changed my mind and now believe cables do/don't make a difference." I doubt it. Which leaves us with buy what you like. If you think better cables improve sound, buy them and you win-you hear better sound. If you think cheap cables sound just as good stick with cheap cables and you win-your ears hear the same sound for less money. The cable debate is the audiophile equivalent of repeated games of tic-tac-toe.