I read alot of 'em, but does anybody wonder "why things sound the way they do?" So you hear differences, but why doesn't anybody explain why it sounds different instead of just arguing whether or not it can be heard. I mean, ya, you put on some cable with a really high capacitance and you get some ringing or overshoot in the high frequencies because your amplifier may not be as great as you thought based on how much you paid for it. But X person thinks "this cable has more detail, must be the silver." Or with some little tube amp that doesn't have much top-end to start with, one finally gets a cable with a lower inductance and you get your high-frequencies back, "must be that solid copper with an optimized crystal structure so those electrons don't have to hop through the micro-diodes." My limited knowledge on the subject is, there can be audible differences between two cables on X amplifier, but they don't sound different for the reason cable manufacturers want you to believe, micro diodes, intercrystal rectification, skin-effect, etc., they sound different because the electronics at hand are sensitive to the basic cable load. Good/better electronics are less likely to be affected by different cables. Now of course this takes us into the whole vacuum tube arena, because alot of people are set on there valves. Honestly, if someone knows of a truly great, moderatly priced cable, tell me and I'd like to hear it. I'm using 4PR and up against analysis plus oval 9, no audible difference, and the designers of my electronics said I shouldn't hear one because the electronics are "not load sensitive" (for all practical, audible purposes).
