DO CABLES REALLY MATTER?

Listen to the howling mob of blockheads in the street,  a trick or two with listening tests, and the whole crowd's on its feet.  I'm with Doug Schroeder on this one--if it is not a significant change for the better, than it is most likely a waste of money.  If you have heard a whole new level of sound when switching to a different IC, PC, of SC, which I have SOMETIMES, don't tell me cables don't matter!  VERY SMALL changes in sound aren't worth the trouble and often the cost it takes to buy the new one and sell the other.  The changes that are a new paradigm to you are just awesome, especially when you can do so for a small money difference.

@glupson. It’s is something that I see not just on this forum but others as well. The ability or choice to spend more seems to be looked down own. I didn’t make my buying decisions lightly.  I did a lot of research and demoing before I purchased each piece. I paid a little more than most would consider.  But I love my sound. @dorkwad I actually use the same reference Cable as Doug Schroeder in parts of my system. Clarity Cable.  They half great treble extension, open midrange and soundstage, a little bump in the lower minds and the bass. Nice sound.  

Very cool, Calvinj.  I finally found the components I truly love the sound of.  The last thing I did was move the sound a little more organic with the choice of cables.  The Schroeder method of shotgunning the same cables so you have 2 sets of cables going to one component, made a great difference in the sound towards more realism.

glupson

Geoffkait: “A rich man has about as much chance of entering audio Nirvana as a camel has of passing through the eye of a needle."

That must be a really big needle.

Why is being rich/able-to-afford so frequently mentioned as a negative trait on this forum?

>>>>>I don’t think it’s a negative trait per se. I think it’s negative only because expense of equipment or cables is irrelevant to most of the discussions about sound. Owning expensive equipment does not automatically mean the owner has found audio Nirvana or that his system even sounds good. Nor can he automatically win arguments based on the expense of his system. Even when he swears up and down his system sounds awesome. That’s what we call a logical fallacy. Asking someone to list his system is not really a way to find out what that system sounds like or to prove that system/cable X sounds better than system/cable Z. There are no shortcuts to Xanadu. 😛

calvinj
They half great treble extension, open midrange and soundstage, a little bump in the lower minds and the bass. 

>>>>An unfortunate typo. 😛