DO CABLES REALLY MATTER?

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. 

calvinj
@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.

>>>>Whatever.

I’m not ONE OF THOSE GUYS! I said what I said because vintage gear sounds different. Cables make less of a difference in vintage gear. Vintage gear has a nice full sound.  Vintage and newer age stuff both have THIER plus and minus. Gear doesn’t have to be expensive to sound good. I only mentioned what I have and have demoed to give folks an idea of how many diffferent Cable brands and equipment brands I have experience with. Also if you are a vintage gear guy I don’t have much experience with that stuff so for me I Don’t have much in common Audio wise to share with you. I have been blessed to have expensive gear but that doesn’t mean I look down on cheaper stuff. Anyway, on some of these forums you have guys that attack the other guys who own expensive cables and equipment. I’m not saying cheap gear is bad I started with the cheap stuff but the more expensive stuff bettered the cheap stuff. I don’t have time for The Audio envy crowd so feel how you feel.  Anyway you took what I said and ASSumed a whole lot. Whatever. Enjoy your vintage gear and I will enjoy my gear. Best wishes. 

@prof. I been in a position to,demo a lot of stuff without having to buy it. Lol so I got to start at the bottom and hear a wide range of stuff. I think I have a pretty good ear. I do believe the gear is way more important than cabling.