Why Do Cables Matter?

So why doesn't  the worlds most complicated most expensive machine (the ASML Semiconductor chip makers) use fancy cables. These machines need to do the most exact measurements in the world. Why don’t audio test equipment like Audio Precision testers come with a boutique AC power cable? If your argument @nonoise is:
"The signal is there all the time just waiting to be freed from the confines of a poorly made cable."

Then why don’t these machines need their information freed? You arrogantly put me down and won’t deal with anything I’ve said. You call me a name dropper I simply used Al Schmitt because he is a known commodity and spoke of the principle we are talking about, maybe you would listen to what he said. Try to be nice.

I think you are the arrogant one.

Have no time or interest in anything you post.

ASR is a much better site for you.

@donavabdear 

Thank you for answering my question - I appreciate it.

Even the best recordings are a long way from the sound of live music, so anything we can do to get back what;s on the recording itself helps.

But we have a long way to go!

@yoyoyaya That is an interesting way to look at at recording. That statement has a lot to do with how you set up your playback system at home also. Todays recordings rarely sound like live performances being multitracked and remixed as standard. I have over the years set up 1 stereo mic over a performing group and loved it but if I did that today the sound would have to much depth, the producer must have close sounding instruments and singers. If you set up your playback system to be simply an extension of the original recording then you are really doing the old fashioned way of reproducing the live show. Today generally everything in music is not natural  I've set up hundreds of microphones on orchestras that sounded fine but it definitely wasn't natural it sounded better than natural. So perhaps there are no rules and even in playback there are no rules concerning fidelity to the original recording because recordings today don't have fidelity to original concerts anyway. As a recording engineer how do you feel about that?