Amir, I appreciate your efforts in substantially cooling off cable hype. I once fell into the hyped trap and kept on buying expensive Audiquest RCA and speaker cables. Now knowing better I regret all the stupidity and money that went that way. I bought Diamond B&W speakers from Dynamic Audio, Akihabara, Tokyo in package that includes Audiquest cables. I was so much indoctrinated by cable hype BS that I started to negotiate getting eve better Audioquest cables to be included in the package. They agreed and sold the package without increasing the price. The name of the cable is "Gibraltar" and have attached battery charged devices that induce some sort of current to keep them "burned in". My knowledge in this field is limited and dont know, yet I cared less as long as the cable itself is good. Those currently sell for USD 1,400. Crazy! Well, those funny blue thick cables were included in the package and I did not buy them separately. Then I carried on and bought expensive kimber cables for my surrounds and 5 signal cables Audioquest King Cobra, also crazily expensive. I feel like a fool now and get really depressed when I remember about this era of craze and how much I wasted money, down the drain. Sorry to say this, I puke when I hear about Audioquest and are utterly disgusted about how they are marketing USB cables. I am currently using a short well shielded USB cable between my computer and DAC that costs around $15 with no issues whatsoever. In case of ground loops I guess that those may be eliminated by a cheap inductive filter that physically separate the copper cords the same way as I use to quickly fix ground loops in single ended connections meanwhile I investigate about how to properly eliminate them. If and how inductive transformers may distort the signal itself, I dont know, I am such a novice in analogue science and technology. Thank you for all the excellent knowledge you provide us who love sound but risk getting fooled by greedy ruthless sharks.
