DO CABLES REALLY MATTER?

Hey, no problem. I’m friends with Keyser Soze.

@prof thanks for sharing you have some great gear. It’s should sound good no matter what. Lol. The best system I’ve heard is the Raidho 5.1 with all soulution electronics and anzus cabling. A guy had a home listening cottage and Raidho came in to set it all up for him. You got some well respected gear. I also believe in spending money on the best gear you can get before spending on cables. My Gato speakers are not well known but I go and listen to a lot of the big name speakers and my speaker competes to me with big boys up to the 25 to 30k range. They have a really clear open see through midrange and tight bass. The treble is the trick though. I use a Cable called clarity natural and it makes the highs sound airy to my ears. My speakers are my last ones. I’m never changing them. I had the revel studio 2 before these but I’m happy I went to Gato Audio out of Denmark. My Dac is made by the brother of the chip maker for oppo they make the Sabre chip. The amp kraudio va 900 is the baby version of the kronzilla. It’s sounds less tubey. It sounds closer to audio research sound wise but with a little more texture. I think you have a great set up. I know you are not a Cable guy but I. My system my cables add just a little of what my ear likes. I’m not putting your point of view down. In my system it works for me. Just keep enjoying your stuff. I only ask what you had in your system because honestly if your gear is not at a certain level it can only perform so well. On cheap or poor speakers cables won’t make much difference. It’s not the case with you you have pretty good gear. @geoffkait I’m not showing off by telling you what my gear is and how much I paid for it. No disrespect but not knowing what gear you running I’m a lot less inclined to value what you say. That’s just my opinion. I don’t know what basevlevel you are at. I was able to have Allnic, veloce, classe, high fidelity, Kubala sosna, Audio research, revel, Sonus faber, Vienna acoustics , clarity Cable, Clarus cables, atlas mavros, audioquest in my system at different times through the last 12 years so my context for what great sound is maybe different based on my ability to have long demos to well respected gear. Any way without knowing your gear I’m less inclined to pay attention. When I hadn’t heard better I did not know better. @prof enjoy the music.

calvinj,
I am certainly not here to tell you or anyone you shouldn't enjoy buying and listening to whatever cables you like.  Glad you are so enthusiastic about your set up.

I'm mostly representing the reasons why I don't apportion much of my mental energy and money to cabling.   I have enough in this hobby I'm obsessive about as it is!

@calvinj so your one of those guys!  It only can sound good and be transparent if it's new and expensive. 

I heard  a pair of vitavox speakers with 300B tube amps and line stage and phonostage all built by the same guy. All tube stuff. The front end was a clearaudio goldfinger on a clearaudio linear tracker on a verdier.  The soundstage was like a cinesphere but still with pinpoint imaging. 
Pretty much the best sound I ever heard. 1950's speakers, amp tech from the 40's on vinyl which has been around forever.  Just because it's vintage doesn't mean it's not good.