Speaker wire is it science or psychology


I have had the pleasure of working with several audio design engineers. Audio has been both a hobby and occupation for them. I know the engineer that taught Bob Carver how a transistor works. He keeps a file on silly HiFi fads. He like my other friends considers exotic speaker wire to be non-sense. What do you think? Does anyone have any nummeric or even theoretical information that defends the position that speaker wires sound different? I'm talking real science not just saying buzz words like dialectric, skin effect capacitance or inductance.
stevemj
also read what the manufacturer of one of the most respected loudspeakers has to say http://www.verber.com/mark/cables.html
Are we there yet? Welcome to rec.audio.opinion and AudioReview. com cable talk. The thread was dead. Let it rest in peace. If you're interested in Mr. Dunlavy's views they have been discussed at length over and over again on those other forums.
There is something I wanted to say for a long time (being a musician): there is no scientific evidence that for example a Stradivarius violin sounds better than a study violin. Even violins of exactly the same age, wood, building techniques et cetera can differ enormously in sound (and thus in price)... Nobody - even the builder - can explain this. We have to avoid the temptation of trying to explain everything technically. I am envolved in the organisation of one of the biggest music festivals in the world and it is my experience that it is hardly possible to find out why some instruments sound better in one concert hall than in another. I don't like the pseudo magical terminology often used to prove that cable x sounds better than y. But there is a difference, sure!
Eantala, thanks for pointing out Dunlavy's thoughts on this subject for us, though VERY thoughtprovoking, I find it a little biased and onesided, but then are we not all in one way or antother...and Koen thanks for your post, you should perhaps have added, that these days nobody knows anymore, inspite of CAD etc, how to make a violin, which would have a sound comparative to a Stradivari or Guarnieri for that matter. That knowledge has obviously been lost for good.