WHY CABLES MATTER!

Look I’m not being snobby but I have all the latest gear from INFIGO AUDIO who I now work with.  Amp and dac literally have no noise floor. Music comes out of blackness. When you have that kind of gear cables matter. When you have gear and speakers capable of great resolution you hear the difference

@calvinj 

Agree - as one moves up in better lowered noise floors, transparency, and resolution usually associated with better “likely significantly more expensive gear” (diminishing returns) then cables can be the sonic bottleneck unless addressed. 

@kennyc that's the part where some people don’t get it. Low noise, transparency and detail matter.  When you don’t have the right cables that can be a bottleneck to the music.  It’s not what the cables are adding. It’s what they are not adding that’s important. 

It’s usually pointless to debate with naysayers- it’s not a lack of understanding but an heavy bias envy/anger “emotional resentment” based on their perception of value and unaffordability.  

Tactics often used:

• Lie then ask us to prove different 
• Ask for proof- a smokescreen to ignore sonic gains, tries to place a precondition for it to work. If it works proof not needed
• Create fake victims - someone is being duped. Audiophiles do not part with their money easily, the more it costs, the higher scrutiny we use.  
• Unrealistic Exaggerate examples 
• Ignore sonic gains
• Look for a few examples, then apply findings as representing the whole
• Present themselves as knowledgeable by presenting unrelated facts, then end with their unsupported claims

One cannot reason with unreasonable people. Few will ever admit their mistake aka being wrong- their self esteem is tied to them being right.

@kennyc  you hit the mail on the head. There is a resentment tied to some of the opinions they have. Because some of us participate in this hobby at a different level there is bias. Look I’m willing to pay for music in its best form.  My system makes me rush home to listen.  Like having a concert in home! 

Sorry, this is a bit of necromancy here, but I have been reading this thread (and others on this forum) with great interest and have some questions.  
 

How do you know of your system is “high enough resolving”?  Do you just know?  Is it “high enough resolving” only if you can hear changes to the system when you swap out cables and power cords?  Does equipment have to be expensive to be “high enough resolving”?  Or can lesser priced equipment be “high enough resolving”?  What is it about a particular piece of equipment, say something  from Infigo……,  that makes it “high enough resolving”?  Is there something in the specifications of the equipment that will give me some clue as to whether or not it will be “high enough resolving”?  Or do you just have to buy stuff and switch it out until you think you are there?  If I measure the noise floor of my room and then turn my equipment on and it doesn’t change, does that mean my system is “high enough resolving”?  Does cable burn in only matter of your system is “high enough resolving”?

Thanks in advance, as this seems to be a fairly confusing topic.