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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
andy2
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I love the smell of cable threads in the morning.

Now cable breaking-in threads ... that's the smell of napalm.  

But I do notice some improvement.  Before it was like "cables don't make any difference ... blah blah blah".  Now at least the difference is acknowledged to the tune of "difference but not worth the asking price".

I have a dream that one day cable-break-in will be accepted like one their own.
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geoffkait
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Like any audio component cables should be considered a Black Box when attempting to find the impact on SQ. But this can be vexing as cables and power cords need time to break in, otherwise what’s the point. It’s not what anybody wants to do - wait a week or two to find out what the cables sound like. So there’s that. Then, after the cables are burned in, what is the cables’ impact on noise and distortion, frequency bandwidth, dynamics? This can be a very long process, trying to decide which cables to use. Perhaps you just buy the cables you fell in love 💕 with, maybe at a show or a rave review, and live with them. Sure, that’s one way to do it.
glupson
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"All the lonely trolls, where do they all come from? 😃"
They jump out of the pebble bag.
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geoffkait
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Glubson, it appears you made one too many trips to the Mind Garden. Too bad you went to public school. Otherwise you could ask for your money back. 
georgemgraves
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Geoffkait;

wire “burning-in”? You’re pulling our legs, right? Would you please tell me what there is in a piece of coax to burn-in? Don’t tell me that it’s the dielectric that’s forming. That occurs in seconds when it is applicable. In cable, It’s not.
What’s more likely is that the component that’s “burning-in” is you, the listener. You are getting used to the new sound of the new cable. The cable hasn’t changed one iota. 
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