I am hugely skeptical of most cable claims. However, I do believe in mechanically sound construction methods and designs based on well proven physics like star-quad cables.
Furthermore, I remain highly skeptical that if this does occur, that there is enough significance to it that it produces audible differences.
As you should, because there isn't a single shred of evidence that has been produced to support ridiculous audiophool claims.
These are the sorts of things people here are trying to disseminate.
No one cares about the "atomic shifts occurring over millions of years upon a wire because the temperature isn't zero kelvin".
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But the main issue I have with those sorts of people is, they have the audacity to start some scientifically based explanation for their voodoo, in attempts to justify theoretical portions of their claims. But when you want to drive home the point and actually continue with sound scientific reasoning to bring things to a conclusion, only then do they start throwing out all scientific claims you start making and becoming full fledged scientific method deniers.
So these motherfuckers will mouth off about facts that were ascertained using instruments or basics of chemistry and material sciences to prove something is worth being "open minded" about. But when you use the same line of reasoning to actually put the mechanistic theories to the test with population studies.. they then poison the well with every sort of nonsense to detonate the whole conversation, with frustration-conducing statements in where they attempt exit tactics like "yeah well that may be true, and honestly i don't really care, I hear what I hear, and I hear music; not graphs".
It's very interesting to see how cult-like their sorts are. Blatant hypocrisy, and contradictions where picking-and-choosing runs rampant. No single head entity or ideological stance that binds them, so they're all like a bunch of decentralized species where you would be hard-pressed attempting to classify each and every kind of lunacy-ridden denomination that exists.
I know I sometimes use some strong language, but I just need to think of all the new folks coming into the hobby, being led astray, and that sets me off the deep end sometimes. I think deep down many of us here can all agree, there's no harm in these sorts of people doing what they want, but once their nonsense starts spilling over especially to new-comers, and generally little-informed consumers, it drives people to create places like this forum.
