Yes, cables do make a difference -- regardless of price...

@markwd

In any case, I have a BSEE and MSEE in information theory and signal processing, as well as PhD work in cognitive science

 

What a coincidence! These guys also have an engineering background.

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Bybee Technologies – Founded by Jack Bybee – Physicist

Bybee’s first commercial products emerged from Cold War-era military-industrial research. The stealthy shadow contest of nuclear submarine detection, location and evasion demanded ever-quieter circuits, lower electronic noise and greater signal-to-noise ratios. Practitioners summed up the problem as: “reducing 1/f noise, from DC to 2000hz”.  

Bybee’s technology involves exotic blends of rare-earth metals or their isotopes to reduce electronic noise in circuits. In the mid-1990s, Bybee’s AC filtering was among the first of its kind to use exotic doped materials instead of transformers or balanced power, which made it a novel concept at the time.

Jack’s science and physicist background gave him the understanding about negative effects of quantum noise. Link here.

 

Purist Audio Design – Founded by Jim Aud – EE & Physicist

From there, I earned my Electronics Engineering degree at Brescia University, and would later study Computer Science for almost two years at Westinghouse. Then I came to South Texas Nuclear, and studied what they’d call today nuclear physics. Link here.

 

Shunyata Research – Founded by Caelin Gabriel – Research Scientist

Caelin Gabriel is a former US military research scientist with a background in research and design of ultra-sensitive data acquisition systems.  These systems were designed to detect extremely low-level signals otherwise obscured by random noise, requiring years of intensive research into the sources and effects of signal and power-line noise interference.  Link here.

 

Silversmith Audio – Founded by Jeffrey Smith – Engineer

CEO/Designer Jeffrey Smith is a Wyoming native and graduate of the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering. He also earned a Master of Science Degree, With Distinction, in Defense and Strategic Studies. Link here.

 

MIT Cables – Founded by Bruce Brisson – awarded 20 USPTO engineering patents.

MIT Cables founder Bruce Brisson began purposely designing audio cables in the 1970’s after encountering the sonic problems inherent in cables typical of the day. Link here.

 

Audioquest – Garth Powell - Sr. Director of Engineering

Formerly with Furman Power for 12 years.

crozbo

 

Thank You for posting a thoughtful perspective on Cabling. Yes! cables and cords do make a difference.

 

Happy Listening!

As always, it comes down to this simple question: "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ears?"

@steakster, hope this finds you well mate,  and good post.

@markwd, I have seen some research work on people being able to detect sounds outside of the typical 20kHz window, though it seems largely irrelevant to music reproduction, so while there might be yet-to-be-understood science out there, the default intellectually honest posture is wait-and-see while instead focusing on what we know impacts audio reproduction.

Your statement in italics hardly suggests you are scientific in your approach to a topic. Show us your research into and the proof of your conclusion. The ability for a system to produce a response way higher than 20kHz is highly relevant. It is why supertweeters with output up to 90kHZ brings so much to the party. Although a sine wave above 20kHz can not be heard by the human ear it forms part of the sound wave. The high harmonics complete the waveform rendering the resultant sound more lifelike. Go do research you may be able to learn something and consider using your ears sometime. The science is understood just not by you.

Flashing your credentials is totally underwhelming and it appears that your vast knowledge has not endowed you with an open and reasoning stance. Remember there was a time not too long ago that scientists proved conclusively that a bumblebee could not fly which of course was later debunked.