Audio Signal Run Through a Banana

Let your ears decide ,not anyone else , every ear hears a bit different ,we all have frequency loss from age ,and loud music or sounds through the years ,

I'm soon to be 71, with slight hearing loss in my right ear and a mid-fi / entry-level system. I can hear the difference between generic analog interconnects and somewhat elevated OFC copper/silver plated AQ interconnects on analog sources. I tried out some better quality digital cables and heard no difference. This is taking into account my age, hearing deficiencies and system level.

The majority of those connections looked to be copper wire with whatever alternative connected in the middle. Certainly the percentage of the copper vs other is a factor.  
 

Either way, I’ve never had really expensive cables, but I do have good cables that have made a difference, and I’m not giving them up anytime soon! 

Make sure you use an un-ripe, green banana. The top end will sound a little too 'soft' when it gets ripe.

If it turned out that green bananas really did sound better I guess I could get along with that. I like bananas so I'd just have to plug in new cables as the old cables ripened, and then eat the old cables. The problem is that by the time you burn in a cable it's probably getting fairly ripe. I wonder how burned in bananas taste?