Who says cables don't make a difference?


Funny, after all these years, people still say things like "you wasted all that money on cables". 
There are still those who believe cables don't make a difference.
I once did marketing for a cable line I consider to be about the best-Stealth Audio Cables. 
One CES, I walked the rooms with the designer/owner, Serguei Timachev. He carried a pair of his then new Indra interconnects. Going from room to room he asked the room runners to replace their source to preamp IC with the Indra. There was not one that was not completely flabbergasted and said that the Indras blew away what they were using. That was the skyrocketing of Indra and Stealth. The Indra became one of the best reviewed cables ever.
Serguei now makes the Sakra-an IC that blows away the Indra!
I don't understand why some still do not value cables as much as I.
mglik
And in my considerable experience, things like shungite, quartz, myrtlewood, and the like placed on top of electrical components such as amplifier transformers achieve their results through a pair of phenomena called confirmation bias and expectational bias. But if you think these things make your system sound better, then that’s all that matters, isn’t it? Me, I think taking the money that others spend on improvements of dubious scientific worth, And buying more music improves my system immensely. :)
I respect your experience, but mine is different...

Do you think that my unconscious was inventing a specific bias to the compressive effect of sound by shungite, the very different decompressive effect of quartz? the audible effect on the imaging by kambaba jasper, the cleaning powerful effect on all frequencies of herkimer diamond and all other very specific effects of all stones, negative effects and positives effects also of lava beads, amethysts, Tourmaline ?

For the money question, all my tweaks are homemade and low costs, all comes from my own experiments... All my idea are free and i sell nothing...

The results are powerful and cost peanuts, there is limit to what your imagination can create without your consent except among few total lunatics in asylum unfit to walk... Your answer remind me of the explanation about UFO by military intelligence 60 years ago....Awake yourself....Dont trust others and experiment yourself ....

:)
Boxer12;

I have ever made a comment about ICs, cheap or expensive. You have me confused with someone else, I’m afraid.

About your electromagnetic radiation comment. You are assuming that it is always present in all systems in enough quantity to audibly affect the signal being conducted. There is no evidence that I know of that supports that assumption. While possible, it should certainly be easy enough to test that hypothesis. If there was anything to it, I would suspect that cable manufacturers of interconnects whose designs yielded the lowest interference measurements would use those in their advertising to increase sales and making choosing interconnects easier for customers. But no such tests or measurements seem to exist. If “boutique” cable manufacturers actually try to technically explain their product’s superiority, they usually do it with technological nonsense. Most companies don’t bother to explain what even they don’t understand.
After a power cord delivers the needed Amp and required voltage to the PS of an amplifier it had no effect on the sound . Filtering your line in an urban area may be.


Mocassin2,
When one thinks about what comes before and after The “boutique” power cord: miles of cable before the mains plug including the house wiring and circuit breakers, and a tiny fuse filament and 18 - 20 gauge wire before and after the fuse to the primary of the power transformer through the power switch, it’s difficult to understand what a 1.5 - 2 meter length of cable, the thickness of a baby’s arm (or, perhaps, leg) is supposed to be doing.
But I am a firm believer in isolating one’s audio system from the mains supply. I use a hospital 30 Ampere isolation transformer with LRC filters on both the primary and the secondary windings. Looking at the mains coming out the wall with one channel of a dual channel oscilloscope, and the secondary of the transformer with the other channel, the difference in the interference noise before and after the transformer has to be seen to be believed. The difference in sound with and without the hospital supply is anything but subtle.
Cables, Capacitors, Diodes, Solder ... it all has a sound. Can we hear it in our room? Can we justify the expense?  Maybe, maybe not. 

It's no matter ... the main listening tool is ME.  Upgrade yourself first and always.
There are a lot of people who don’t trust their ears, and they will preach the gospel of their ways to make you believe their faith. They call themselves scientists.  Science is how sound moves on a wire, it’s not how we judge that wire for sound.