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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
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mahgister
13,197 posts
 
Is there any data that supports the gain or loss of quality?
Another one who think that data completely replace reality.....Read the article i just post there is some data that go in the way of the break-in hypothesis....But there is no ABSOLUTE data that will replace reality and the experience of many people for the time being....

Ok i quit for the night... :)

All of this is subjective right?
No not all break-in are subjective experience only, amplifier or dac break-in exist base on the working cycles of some of their electronic components... Read the article....

Good night....
roberttdid
534 posts
 
In engine break in there is a component (the rings) that literally moves to find the best spot. Care to tell me what "moves" in a cable during break in?
speedbump6
760 posts
 
Would it matter? Even if they did the naysayers will explain it away as they’re 10 percent nickel to iron, vs 5 percent. Or they’re gapped incorrectly, anything to keep it going. Why do they work so hard to try to convince anyone who will listen. I hear what I hear, and don’t care to convince anyone that they should also, whether i did or did not hear anything. Why should I care if someone can hear a difference, or not? If someone wants to spend because they feel it does make a difference for them, I have no objection to that. If you don’t hear anything, then there’s no need to spend. Everyone can be happy, so why is it that the some of the ones who can’t hear feel the need to rain on someone else’s parade. 
andy2
1,555 posts
 
Care to tell me what "moves" in a cable during break in?
Electrons, copper molecules ... to name a few.  And they move because of heat and friction ... just like the cylinder rings changing its property due to heat and friction.
boxer12
8,656 posts
 
atdavid (robertwhatever),
This is audio, so hardly my "world view". Now why do you keep changing your name? 
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