Has Anyone Criticized The Choice Of Your Cables?

My cables get criticized all the time by people who have not heard my system. Nothing but Gold or Silver will do for some people. Ordiniary wires seem ok to my tin ears though

i sometimes get worried if too many people like the sound of my stereo system.
if i get criticism, i figure i'm ok. let them criticize my choice of cable. it doesn't affect me one way or another.

there is a way to humor people who criticize. here is what i say:

"thank you for your kind words".

I've never been criticized for anything in my system because:
A. Most of my friends don't know anything about hi-end audio equipment -- all they know is my system is the "best stereo I EVER heard!"
B. And/or, "It's worth what?!@*"

There WAS this one exception: I have a 'theater' friend, of a certain 'persuasion' who is a true opera and musical comedy maven (what else?) He actually prides himself on his bitchy and disdainful sense of humor -- which I must admit is quick, and often drop dead funny ;-) Anyway, back in oh, must've been around the late seventies, he dropped by one day, and I had a pair of 3/4" dia. by 15' long Straightwire Maestro II speaker cables (I'd just got) stretched out together full-length across the living room carpet.

They have that beautiful silver colored woven shield under a clear jacket, if you've not seen them . . . Anyway, my friend Zale, who needs help changing a light bulb, immediately spied the cables, and starting to chuckle disapprovingly, he says, "What the hell are those?!" I replied, completely matter-of-factly, "Those are my new speaker cables."

At which point, he broke out laughing, so hard, I only barely managed to hear him say, "Oh! I thought you were sending electricity to Poland!"
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Self-assurance is the best way to deal with negativity, who cares about his opinion.

Anyway, its all about synergy, does he have some magical cable that works for every system. If he does his name must be Merlin, or maybe God.

"Rubbish" and "Nonsense" remind me of "The Squatter and the Ant".