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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
boxer12
8,656 posts
 
"As has been shown over and over, measurements are not always an indicator of good sound."

Agreed. Some day science may catch up to our little hobby & figure out what to measure that correlates well to the human ear/brain.  
roberjerman
4,319 posts
 
:@dan2956: At last, one of the few sane members here in the crowd of wire maniacs! It would be a wonderful world indeed if changing a cable improved the sound the sound of a system! Alas ...
roberjerman
4,319 posts
 
If you want to hear your system sound better, a martini and a joint will do the trick! Changing an IC - no!
roberjerman
4,319 posts
 
Now where's my Greenalls gin and Martini & Rossi and my Bambu rolling papers? You wire maniacs make me laugh!
roberttdid
534 posts
 
And maybe one day in the future some audiophiles will realize the difference between good sound, and sound that is exactly the same but costs a whole lot more and stop trying to convince other audiophiles to make the same mistake. These same audiophiles already reject all sort of measurement but are quite happy to believe made up marketing material. I am sure if measurements improve they will reject those too.

And it is all quite silly as no one is saying that measurements indicate how an individual will perceive sound quality at least on this topic. What they are saying is that the reported changes from a cable change don’t match reality at least in a significant number of cases of what changing a cable could possibly do.
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