Man, most of you guys are way ahead of me on this stuff, but from what I’ve heard and experienced, this stuff matters. I really DO think you might be able to tune/tailor a system via cables, fuses, and treatments.The EE types usually design filters with capacitance, inductance and resistance.
(I have only heard a few proclaim that different metals have different sounds.)
If the cables had a different capacitance, inductance or resistance, then a reason exists why it could sound different. And the more secure spades also have a demonstrable reason.
However using higher or lower values in any of those (C/I/R) could be better or it could be worse.
It is not always an improvement.
The accoutsics engineers also say that diffusion and absortion change reflected sounds.
And both of ^these^ disciplines are taught in science departments at many universities “around” the world.\
There are also psychology departments, which is a science as well.