A question about the logic of interconnect cables

The best amps and pre's do not have much wire inside.. point to point soldering and interconnect RCA female terminals are connected/soldered inside directly to a board without wire. Bottom line is interconnects DO AFFECT sound, just try a few different ones and listen and you will see.

Thanks for the info...and I don't mean to belabor the point BUT..if all what is true above and RCA plugs. XLR connectors do affect the signal ..then why are we not soldering our cables board to board?

You very well could solder your cables board to board, but how practical would that really be?

I've seen, the odd time, a component with seperate power supply, modified in such a way, but woe to he that has to move the components around, etc.

-not to mention the elaborate ritual that would surely be made of a/b testing of various cables....for what minute degree of improvement?

why are we not soldering our cables board to board?

Practicality, as suggested above.
Otherwise, it's an excellent thing to do.
Practicality come in when you wan to, say, change a cable, or lengthen, or move the components apart or change one of the components...
...and you know, soldering & de-soldering boards will ultimately make a mess of those boards.
Plus, if the wire used is an expensive designer "cable" (say, Prada :)), you lose much of its resale value!

That's it, really.

To Markphd

Thanks for your response.. Your point about about some high end Mfgs not believing you need any special wire speaks volumes to my point. I have often felt that there should be some some scientific evidence of the benefit of one cable over another.

If one cable sounds different than another..WHY?? or are we in a big time PLACEBO effect here?? Not seeing any reportable documentation on HZ or db differences ( or any other measurements)by any of the high end cable guys suggests to me that the entire market has a credibility problem. Extravagant claims prevail in every magazine I have read.

I have tried Valhalla, NBS and MIT products and in my opinion, NBS sounded better...but this is after I went down the Valhalla expense path.