A New Believer

"p.t. barnum is validated once more"

"Forgive him Joshc for he know not what he sayeth." It is true, I used to be a hard core skeptic until the moment it was proven to my satisfaction it wasn't the plecebo effect. Welcome to the alchemy arena of audio and ALWAYS, trust your ears!

I believe there is a difference. I have heard it. I don't believe that more $$ necessarily means better. I also believe that you can trick yourself, or be tricked.

Were you compaing "junk" cables to quality cables or did you also compare several quality cables and hear a real difference?

I've read more than once that cables to really matter as long as you have one that's adequate in size for the system requirements. I take this to mean that if your cables are too small you will certainly notice a negative effect, but once you get into the right sizes the difference are minor to non-existent though there has to be some difference otherwise the too small cables wouldn't matter.

Josh--

You need to do a double-blind A/B with matched levels to truly know if there is any difference. The human ear can detect minute differences in volume. A box to do this test is not available at Radio Shack. You need to check the volumes carefully with a meter and have the adjustments built into the A/B box with a high-quality pot. Only then can you conduct the experiment to see if you can really hear the difference.

Based upon everything I've read, there is no detectable difference in the sound quality (not to say volume) of any reasonably well-made cables. Hum, RFI, etc. can be brought into your system by a poorly shielded cable. But the sonic quality will not change otherwise.

how do the different speaker cables do their magic? explain it to me please.