Interconnects and non-believers

@ unreceivedogma

Somebody - was it Prof? - mentioned speaker break in.

For what it it is worth, my speakers sound different depending on weather conditions: temp, humidity, air pressure etc

and somebody posted a link to The Cable Cooker. At first I thought it was an Onion thing, then I realized they were serious.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/the-difficulties-in-component-shootouts

I have a few posts in there that lay out the fundamentals in the logic of this whole mess about ears and hearing, and why science and measurement are still catching up to it.

It's a complex story, not a simple one. That it requires some wide ranging complex data sets to grok the true shape of the question, never mind unraveling the answer from such.

Otherwise these discussions would never take place nor remain unresolved.

Another way of saying that: the longer the complex and unresolved question  has been around.....  the more fundamental the error in the formulation of the question.

teo_audio,

I really like your post in the quoted thread
Especially:

“Those who don’t understand or value those differences either can’t hear it, can’t grok it, or are indulging in their inbuilt capacity to fill in, or can’t separate the mechanism out (like some can) and actually hear the new sound, the new accent, the new micro differences. Ie, they literally are not listening. Literally.”

As you say,  ”Filling in” is most definitely a phenomenon, especially as you get into the music.

I wholeheartedly concur with the entire post.
Really well thought out and presented, without didactic or overblown verbiage!

Well after 20 years with the same cables, this thread just had to get me considering purchases!
Would one be able to say that cables wear out with time? I have some old Audiotruth, if anyone remembers them, which are better than lamp cord, but definitely not “high end". 
Does anyone know if the age affects them? 

(Speaker cables are 20 years old too, some weird AQ GR8, if anyone knows that too)

wetfeet48: just polish the end connectors occasionally with some Copperbrite and you'll be good to go! No need to worry neurotically about wire!

The old AQ Truth are great cables, in truth. I wish they still made them. If I recall correctly even back then AQ controlled them for directionality. I had copper and silver versions of AQ Truth. Other than keeping connections nice and bright the AQ Truth should be good to go. Electrons don’t seem to get tired. There is no Geritol for electrons even if they did.