Why Do Cables Matter?

All very subjective thanks for sharing JJSS

charliech

Oh, I will add that if you want to get nice cables just because they look nice, that is a valid reason. 

Anyone can select any cables for their system and the choice will be valid. No one here needs your permission or blessing.

An objectivist is just a subjectivist who thinks he/she has the better argument.

So you guys are trying to tell me that in a blind listening test I would not be able to tell if my system had cables connected or not?  Preposterous.  Now could I tell in a blind test if it was the power cord that was missing vs. speaker cables?  Probably not.

My point is after 40 years of arguing about this topic don’t you think the cable business would have died out by now if they provided no sonic benefit?

I can hear the difference in the direction of my network cable into the music server.  It is not subtle either.  I really wish they would put arrows on those cables.

I’ll add as I’d missed in my first post here a critical element - speaker positioning and distance to listening chair. This is something that I continue to be amazed with how a slight change in speaker placement can break it or make it. This of course comes together with room acoustics right after your components and before cables.