How does cable construction affect sonic character?

@hilde45 - here’s a link to the entire hard-cover Audio Critic library as it currently exists. I found them to be very interesting reading, although I certainly didn’t agree with everything they wrote. Still, the Audio Critic is a piece of high end audio history that is worth looking at, IMO. There is also a link to their later "web zine" on the page. 

https://www.biline.ca/audio_critic/audio_critic_down.htm

@chayro 

Thanks for the link. Just looking at an article on the 10 biggest lies in audio and I'm already scratching my head at the claim that "Whatever vacuum tubes can do in a piece of audio equipment, solid-state devices can do better, at lower cost, with greater reliability....As for the "tube sound," there are two possibilities: (1) It's a figment of the deluded audiophile's imagination, or (2) it's a deliberate coloration introduced by the manufacturer to appeal to corrupted tastes, in which case a solid-state design could easily mimic the sound if the designer were perverse enough to want it that way."

Still, it's nice to see firmly wrought opinions even when they're (to my mind) bordering on ridiculous. My guess is that there will be a lot in here that I will agree with, too. 

@chayro

Interesting read. The part about different recording studios sounding different, even when they use the same microphones in the same hall, really resonates with me. In my youth, my classical CD collection was organized primarily by label. I considered myself a connoisseur of label sounds, basking in the combined effect they created with the musical performance. The album art and liner notes, which some CDs still had, also added quite a bit to the experience, no doubt coloring my perception of the sound quality itself.