Are cable recommendations worth anything?

Cleeds,

That Michael Fremer article like most of what comes out of his mouth is idiotic.

Even the most staunch anti cable people know that turntable cables are highly impactful on the sound. The article proves nothing really. His comment about leveling I find ludicrous.  Funny of all is his making fun of the guy saying he measured his azimuth being off and Fremer saying that's ludicrous. While unlikely, if there is high frequency channel say at 15-20Khz that is not there are lower frequencies then that can indicate the azimuth is off.

Hey @audio2design... or @dannad, or @atdavid, or whatever... it did not take you long after they banned your most recent moniker (Dannad) to resurface again here. Why on earth keep insisting over and over and over coming back here to spread your venom and hatred to everything audio and audiophiles?? This is way beyond my understanding and imagination. Get a life.

Seems that the moderator has taken sides here and spuriously deleted multiple posts that contained no abuse, no profanity, and no personal attacks, unlike some of the responses.  They are facilitating the epistemic closure evident among some on this site. Shame on him/her, whoever they are.

Suffice it to say that the people who are “dug in” are those who a) deny that the mountain of evidence against their subjective opinions even exists and b) don’t have the guts to prove that they have the golden ears they claim.  Dissing other people’s ears (if I had a dime for every time some super-annuated snob pulled that one) while purposely holding his hands over his own.

The null hypothesis has been clobbering the faith in cable differences for decades.  

And yet, here you are: in a thread about cables. If you have concluded (in whatever way, not my business) cables are worthless, why do you worry about them? Why do you talk about cables? 

They talk and argue and insult because they cannot bear the truth: that there are indeed differences, and that learning to hear them will allow you to build a better more satisfying music system.

This they find is infinitely frustrating. Because, think about it. Imagine. Here they are spending thousands of dollars, not to mention investing who knows how many hours, all for something they cannot even begin to hear. Their system sucks, and everyone knows it- except for them! Because they haven’t learned to listen.

And since they cannot listen they don’t even have any idea how to make it better. It must feel like the kid who wants in the worst way to join the game, but insists we change all the rules just for him. Its no longer about how it sounds, its about whatever impossible to prove proof these misfits insist upon. Its the most epic fail of all time. Of course they are frustrated, angry, butt hurt beyond imagining.

Oh well.