Strange Cable Experiment

Congratulations. Great when something this counterintuitive works out. Certainly not an approach that would likely always work, but it can. 

A dealer of mine was so overwhelmed by the performance of some phonostage interconnects that he sent me a pair to try. Although my phonostage was only valued at around $2.5K... it was worth the $2K for the Nirvana interconnects. It happens

I am not at all surprised by your findings.

Strange? Not at all. It would be strange if the cables didn’t make a difference in a resolving system. No blind test needed. Although with those cataract glasses I bet Jason is an expert in blind testing. 

"Any change is perceived as positive in a majority of the times."

Despite this pronouncement from our resident "voice of doom", congratulations on your epiphany.

Makes a person wonder how often inexpensive gear gets bad reviews because it was tested with cheap interconnects.  I certainly wasn't using expensive interconnects with my first systems. 

I recently experimented with some $200 interconnects that were considerably less expensive than my Black Cat Silverstar 88.  I listened with the real expectation that the less expensive cables could be as good, or even better.  Alas, they aren't.  Very good cables for the money, but not better than the Black Cat.