A New Believer

Certainly stirred up a hornets nest with that one!
Just to clarify, it was only the speaker cables that I changed, and the removed cables were very cheap (and nasty..). The cables I moved to were not uber-expensive, but the sound difference was real. Mceljo made a comment "were they junk ..." and yep - I'd agree the old ones were. Still, as a skeptic, I believed all cables send a signal, and can all do so effectively (a long as the guage is suitable) and any differences in sound between them were 'make believe'. Not true. I'm not even going to comment on my belief about i/c's and power cables...maybe one day I'll explore that too.

What's humorous is when the experience of hearing the difference is made so easily available, yet people will harp on its impossibility. I have little time for people who in their arrogance insist that efficacious changes in cables are impossible.

There will always be cable skeptics, since the ability to hear such changes is predicated upon the quality of the system, the room and hearing acuity.

The more I'm in this game the more I realize there are a LOT of guys who have bad ears; they have such diminishment of hearing that they'll never be able to discern such differences. That adds to the frustration of the ongoing discussion.

There are also a lot of guys who are so proud, so rock-headed that they will not try something unless it's their idea. The kind of man a woman laments being married to, the opposite of the users of the tweaks of questionable value. :)

I fully agree with Tubegroover's first comment; always trust your ears.

I second the comment by Bill (Audiofeil), and the similar comment by Blkadr.

It's surprising how cable debates always seem to turn into arguments about whether differences do or don't exist, and ignore what is IMO the real question, how strong is the correlation between performance and price. See my post here for some thoughts on that question. (Ignore the first paragraph in that post, which is about a different subject).

Regards,
-- Al

Some gear will be affected much more than others. The magnitude of difference a cable makes is largely dependent on what it is connectd to. It makes little sense to speak of cables without the specific equipment. Cables are passive. Ideally they should have no affect. In the real world, they may or may not make a difference, depending on the type, design and choice of equipment.