Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire?

The experience of hearing a difference between cables is exactly the kind of event which requires scientific experimentation. Saying that an observation, or repeated observations, are "not scientific" does not erase the experience.

Indeed, using "scientific" as a *refutation* of experience actually does harm to science; not only does it disregard experience, it abuses the term "scientific" by making it a conversation-stopper.

The invention of modern science was made possible by taking experience seriously. Read about it. Before then, people looked to Aristotle and Ptolemy for their science. The world was fixed and scientific facts could be deduced. (Aristotle, probably history’s greatest biologists overall, deduced that women had fewer teeth because they were, by definition, inferior to men. He could have counted, but that would have been relying too much on experience.)

Umami was a well defined taste experience for a long time in various cultures. They recognized it, desired it, and even developed recipes to express it.

https://flavourjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2044-7248-4-13

See the analogy?
Experience first.
Explanation second.

If experience contradicts existing metrics and explanations, then the greatest possible effort must be taken to show why or how the experience is erroneous. Science is conservative -- it seeks to preserve theories which work. But once experience proves obstinate to existing theories, theory must find a way to adapt. If you don’t believe that, tell me why the sun is now at the center of our solar system rather than the earth.

More Importantly if an opportunity to share in a experience is denied to oneself because ones belief mechanisms and theories reject the idea that something new can be obtained, through participating in the experience.

Then that is a situation that is fine the that person.
There is no need to spend any time to create a change.

If an individual with these inclinations is to enter into a discussion on the outcome of the types of experiences that have been passed over.
Where there are the findings of others being shared, by those who have chosen to participate in a particular type of experience.
Those who are refusing to undertake or acknowledge any value to the experience, are going to be sharing an information that is deficient in Value.
It is quite clear from my own experiences and sharing some of those experiences in the Company of others who are showing a Interest, that a Cable can produce a perception of being attractive and produce an improvement, whilst demonstrated along side another Cable that can be perceived of being less attractive and not able to be perceived as being a Improvement.

I am most contented by undertaking in these experiences, they have been the most educational
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One alternative can be to refuse to participate and claim the time spent is futile and will lead to falsities being made known.
I am quite content to not adopt this attitude any longer, that one is a thing from my past, and creates limitations.
    

https://www.monoandstereo.com/2014/04/audio-by-van-alstine-abx-comparator.html

i find this unit indispensible in comparing many components and cables, esp. cables

very useful to combat confirmation bias and also disparate volume settings when trying to discern differences and preferences

@jjss49 Can the ABX comparator be used to compare girlfriends/boyfriends for longtime placement in the rig that is our life? Because $$'s saved on divorces can buy some pretty nice gear. (Seriously: how good a rig could one buy for the cost, overall, of a divorce? I think we're talking some pretty nice gear.)

@jjss49,

Good suggestion but do you really think anyone would pony up for this device? Many here won’t even take advantage of generous return policies offered by manufacturers and dealers due to their silly inhibitions :-)