Who says cables don't make a difference?

Thought I might open up a can of worms.
One interesting element is the prejudice factor.
When so called audiophiles say things like “smoke and mirrors”, “pseudoscience”, “my $50 cable sounds the same”, they are doing nothing more than professing their ignorance. They tend to be set in their attitude regardless of enormous objective proof. The true and educated audiophile well understands and knows just how complex and critical cables are to the ultimate performance of any system.It has been wisely pointed out that so many medium to very expensive cables are sold to many intelligent and attuned people. And many companies are very established and successful selling these cables.
Even if I were a very rich man, I would never buy an $80k speaker cable. No, but only because I am an experienced audiophile and know that I can get as good or better for much less. Would I use zip cord lamp wire for my speakers? Yes, for my garage system with an old receiver, etc. Surely, the nature and quality of you system is a critical factor.

 

Keep your 50 dollars cables.... But treat your room and prepare yourself for a big surprize....

The best improvement is not about cables but a dedicated controlled audio only room.... :)

Really???  Oh, and 2x2=4, you forgot to add.  
(Please forgive my irony if you are a complete beginner and just recently discovered the room importance).

(Please forgive my irony if you are a complete beginner and just recently discovered the room importance).

Even many of those who speak about the room importance underestimated the impact of room treatment....

Most people think about passive room tretment when they think about this matter...It is ONLY the 1/3 of the problem.... In my experience and experiment in a DEDICATED audio room 2/3 of the results comes from ACTIVE room treatment...

Then forgive my lack of irony and seriousness if you are a beginner in these matter or think you are not one..   :)

They tend to be set in their attitude regardless of enormous objective proof.

Subjective proof. There is very little objective proof. Objective proof would require either electrical testing that shows a change that correlates with known limits of human hearing and/or controlled listening tests.   w.r.t. measurement, a few areas:  high resistance from small gauge and/or excessive inductance or capacitance causing significant roll-off and wide-bandwidth amplifiers having instability, which for the most part has been "fixed" in newer designs.  Either of these issues can be addressed with very little expense. Shielding can also contribute to reduced noise floor, but again, that is addressed very inexpensively.

On the controlled listening tests, they tend not to support the conclusion that there are reliably identifiable differences in the sound between various cables when the volume is controlled for. To this day, I am not aware of even 1 public, controlled listening test, conducted by a cable vendor. Not 1. You gotta admit, that is a pretty damning statement, especially in light of the challenges and the willingness to let the vendor control every single variable.

I am not advocating 18 awg zip cord, and dollar store interconnects, but while audiophiles like to talk about "diminishing" returns, based on the objective evidence, the reality may be "no" returns past a certain price point and that price point may be relatively low.

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On the controlled listening tests, they tend not to support the conclusion that there are reliably identifiable differences in the sound between various cables when the volume is controlled for. To this day, I am not aware of even 1 public, controlled listening test, conducted by a cable vendor. Not 1. You gotta admit, that is a pretty damning statement, especially in light of the challenges and the willingness to let the vendor control every single variable.

>>>>Oh, I don’t know the only company that claims to do blind testing is Harman Kardon or whatever their name is and their stuff is probably junk, anyway. If you’re so high on blind tests why don’t you volunteer to do some blind tests and report your results. I dare you.