"So you needed measurements to tell you which pair of interconnects you keep? Blue pill vs. red pill. You couldn’t hear a difference by…. listening to them? Yeah, I know, shocking!"
Yeah this is an interesting one. They may indeed sound the same but it's obvious that the conductivity of the plugs is better on the one. The other reaches the same low impedance if I push and rub the meter leads onto the plug. So it may be that most of the time the connection is strong enough to overcome this. But much depends on the actual plug mechanical connection. How tight it is. The other interconnect plugs are made of actual gold. I think the bad measuring ones are probably brass. They are less likely to hold a good connection.
So here is a case where putting a meter on it and measuring is very instructive. I'm not going to take a chance on the brass connectors that measure badly even though they may sound fine. It's possible that they may not stay that way.
And I realize that I bought some crappy cables. They looked sort of gold in the pics. Fools gold.