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Re: So what you are saying

"...is that since you believe cables do not have aural differences..."

I didn't say that either, although I am extremely dubious that they are significant and frankly, IMO the one's the wire industry has given us over the decades are the best for their application while the expensive audiophile types are inferior. I have proposed simple tests which can easily verify at home that a cable does what it is supposed to which is nothing in the way of altering the signal. I haven't tried it with speaker cables or power cords but every cheap interconnect I tried passed with flying colors. This is hardly surprising to me since they can also pass a 7 Mhz NTSC television signal without any perceptable alteration as well.

I think people can and do design and manufacture audio cables which and alter the sound of some sound system but I think it is a bad mistake to buy or use them. There are cheaper, more predictable, more reliable, and more controllable ways to alter performance but they are not available to those who have preconceptions based nonsense that's been drilled into them by the high end audio industry. So spend the rest of your life trying cables if that's what floats your boat. It's your money, not mine.


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