Interconnects and non-believers

unreceivedogma

... To some of these, a faith based approach is often applied. So too with COC (the Cult of Cables).

Actually, you have this backwards. There's quite a bit of evidence that shows there can be audible differences between cables, some of which I think has been provided to you. So to the extent there's a "cult," it comprises the tiny, noisy minority in denial of the facts, and that seeks to argue its position with a seemingly endless prattle of ill-logic and, often, personal attacks.

Perhaps, it would be of help to actually understand, what’s wrong with the typical nay-sayer’s, "thinking"(loosely speaking)? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xLm9mgJRPvmPGpo7Q/the-cognitive-science-of-rationality  Then again, probably not!

mbishop63: "" One thing I’ve found about interconnect cables is you have to be patient through the "break in period" ""
And then there are cable that suck.. period. I bought a cable that was really no good for what it was intended for. The dealers says let it break in. a month and I finally just said enough is enough! and returned it. the pressure to ’go along’ with break in was high. (this was the cable location I finally went and bought a $3200 IC for. and got something worth the money that sounded good)
So sometimes you know it is crap. Oddly other cables the first time I heard it I was 'this is garbage, I am going to return it!." but in a few days to came around. Never know.

Might the "Break-in" effect be in ones head? ;-)

Bleeds, nice try, but you and so many cable cultists and marketers here conflate my point. I am not saying that there is no difference, I am saying that the differences, small as they are, do not justify the exhorbitant prices asked for from audio enthusiasts, gullible and vulnerable as they are to grandiose claims due to their enthusiasm.