Well, but they will still be discussing measurements of the PERFORMANCE surely? 0-60, 1/4 mile, braking.
Cables and all are literally religion: in the absence of any PROOF (i.e. there are no audible differences ever* measured that I'm aware of), they depend on belief. And if you challenge those beliefs, the believers get very upset.
- In audio though, what happens is you get new people legitimately asking if cables etc make a difference. And it seems a shame to let them spend a bunch of money uselessly, especially in the doubtless many cases where the money would be better spent on other upgrades. Hence my standard advice "reasonable return policy!!!!"
*Yes I did twice hear speaker cables make a difference. One time was unequal lengths of cheap AWG 24 as a temporary thing-easily explained by the skinny wire. The other had extreme 1 ohm speakers and MIT cables with passive networks. I think any rational person would agree those are not neutral cable designs, hence no surprise if they made a difference. Another test showed Supra Ply speaker cable to have less ringing, which was quite interesting. There I have to hedge "ever" to say the audibility of that ringing was not addressed and still unknown AFAIK. And surely there have been over time many cases-like this thread-where the cable caused changes in grounding and/or noise induction. But then those situations are peculiar to each particular setup, generalization useless, and we're back to "reasonable return policy!!!!"
