When is unequal, equal?

Nsgarch, oh I think that he would agree with me, but my way of stating these things doesn't help sell cables, while his version of these same effects (or non-effects) and claim that these are audible and his solution to this 'problem' does sell cables. We are in fact saying the same thing, just disputing if the effects are audible in practice or not. Sufficiently different impedances can be heard, however.
Salut, Bob P.

Whether either of you guys want to admit it or not, what sells anything ultimately is results, not white papers, not hype. (You remember the one about fooling all of the people some of the time etc?)

What put Monster Cable on the map way back before you'd remember, was the shotgun design with its multigauge, multilength, separately insulated stranded conductors, with dual symmetrical signal path and floating shield. (A blueprint for a new, quieter more coherent SE cable, not hype.) Before that there was only single conductor coax for SE cables -- and if I had my way, that's all you guys would be allowed to use! Shouldn't bother you though, cause everything else is just a lot of pseudoscience, right?

That some audiophiles fall for this cable hoo-hah is evidence that you CAN fool some of the people all of the time. What put Monster on the map was marketing. And that's all the high-end cable business has ever been.

Pabelson, why don't you do something that involves science you can trust?

Nsgarch, I find the notion that cables should have a direction or that the 'positive' and 'negative' conductors should be of different construction or material to be pseudo science, since signals transmitted over cables (IC, speaker etc) are AC, thus flow in both directions (not at the same time of course!).
IC's can sound different if they are designed to do so, that is work with the impedance characteristics of the cable to get the frequencty response one wants and voila, a cable that sounds 'faster' 'sharper' etc.. Of course the same cable will sound different with different equipment, depending on their contributiuon to the circuit impedence characteristics (people call that synergism). Just make sure that the marketing quotes all sorts of pseudoscience to explain and justify those attributes and not the real reason (frequency response variations) why that cable sounds as such.
Salut, Bob P.