Amir of ASR admitted 1 cable sounded better than the other. NOT CLICKBAIT

You can get a Chevy Vega to go 60 mph and you can get a Porsche to go 60 mph. Doesn’t mean the Vega’s the same quality as the Porsche. 

Not sure why anyone, other than ASR groupies, care what Amir thinks.  He is not an audiophile.  He simply tests the electronics performance and then conjectures about what should sound better.  Being an audiophile is about listening to your components and configurations.  I am an an electrical engineer.  We develope some of the finest and most sophisticated electronics in the world.  By specs it should sound amazing,   I must say, when it blows up, it sound pretty darn good:-)

@jaulbrich 

Exactly. This hobby is first, foremost and always about enjoyment of music. There's zero joy in ASR and the bitter cranks that infest that site. While they wallow in statistics, we're loving art.

SO eff'ing what. I really couldn't care less what amir or what anyone thinks. My Ears my Cash.

I love a well engineered piece of equipment...and knowing it's well engineered (including how it measures) undoubtedly influences how it sounds to me - my overall listening experience is my ultimate arbiter of the worth of a component (as I hope yours is for you).
If, on the other hand, someone LOVES the look of glowing tubes, despite any sonic distortions they may introduce, their listening will in similar fashion be influenced positively by that visual variable and the delight it provides them.
The neuroSCIENCE of it - neuro-aesthetics - currently indicates that how we hear and enjoy sound is influenced by visual and cognitive predispositions. All the discrete neural circuits serving one sense modality have both excitatory and inhibitory connections to the circuits of the all the other modalities.
What's interesting to me is why one person weighs the engineering/measurements more heavily than say the visual or haptic aesthetics of a piece...this is clearly a subjective preference, and so while an objectivist, I must admit and allow the subjectivity of which my love of objectivity is framed. Many in ASR are incapable of this meta- kind of view, of understanding that their devoted adherence to measurements are determined by their subjective brains. Which, alas, is not very scientific.