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RE: Ahh... "cables as tone controls" argument.

Joe and Sam?

Look, we know what cables do. L, R, C, grounding and shielding, microphonics, contact rectification. That's it, unless you are a Martian who hears to 30 gHz and you have to worry about the likes of skin effect. Those can of course have a multitude of effects, some of them profound, many dependent on the circumstances of the setup, e.g., whether one is dealing with a high RF environment, equipment impedances, etc.

Sometimes, when problems arise, a different cable can help; sometimes make it will make things worse; most often, it will make no difference or such a subtle difference that only one in a hundred wlll hear it. Charging more than oh, say, $100 for a cable is probably highway robbery; selling an expensive cable for something that you can do with 90 cents worth of parts from Radio shack (if there is still Radio Shack this week) is, well, robbing Fort Knox.

See my point now?

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