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
In your test was the test statistically designed?  In other words there needs to be a statistical test where any difference (in means) is tested against the probability that the difference was above a random difference.

Lol, and I sense the first to try to pick apart the testing method, as I mentioned. Jd, the test was valid by any designation. No I have no desires to go into any more detail on it, i was doing it to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I do know a bit about conducting tests that would eliminate variables other than ending up with a valid conclusion either way, that the test was designed to determine. We are not talking subtle differences here, any more than if I subbed out a sweet sounding tube  for an analytical Solid state set up. If you could detect that difference in a blind test, you could also detect the best of the cables compared to the worst. If you could not tell the difference in the amp/ preamp, then I might suggest that spending much on audio equipment would not improve your experience.
jmeyers,

"I had been using 35 feet long Blue Jeans/Belden interconnects between my preamp and the power amp..."


35 feet? That is very long for an interconnect. How come you had to leave components that far?
Is there a "bat signal" that goes up on cable denier sites every time Audiogon has a cable related thread? Just wondering...