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Opening a can of worms

Here is the can filled with opinions. It's been hashed and rehashed to infinity and beyond with no clear result. Since I am a seeker of truth I'll post my thoughts here for the yea and naysayers to debate over. Question is: Are expensive speaker or any other cable in a system worth the exorbitant cost over a reasonably priced cable loom? I thought I'd  experiment myself to find out. My comparison is between Transparent Ultra cable loom and Blue Jeans cable loom on a pure stereo system comprised of Proceed PAV,  Proceed PDSD,  Krell Kav 250, Musical Fidelity A3cd, Sony Ps4300 TT and B&W 803D2 speakers. All sources were used by this experiment using identical playback material. Cables had in excess of 200 hrs burn time and all were identical in lenght. The only variation were the connector manufacturers.
One change that occurred during this 4 week long endeavor was that I'm firmly seated on the sharpest picket on the fence.
My result is that I'm now a believer that there are audible differences in cables. I also believe that these differences are minute and one has to really listen carefully and for a long time to discern these differences.
Now to the crutch of the matter, $$$$$, As we all know Transparent Cables would reside in the upper tier of Audio Cable expense.  Blue Jeans Cable on the other hand falls into the lowest tier of expense (well maybe not lowest but low nontheless )
One would think then that the Transparent would be far superior to the BJs. Not really! Yes the highs were a little cleaner, mids a little tighter and lows a tad more pronounced but not by as much as one would expect. Soundstage was somewhat more open and airy and depth was somewhat more defined with the higher priced cable but again less than one would expect. 

Now for my personal opinion regarding the cable debate: expensive cable looms are slightly better than reasonable priced looms, if a dollar equals a penny to you then by all means opt for the higher priced loom, if a penny equals a penny don't be ashamed for opting for the best you can do. The differences are so minute that it's not worth going into debt over. BOTH looms sounded superb on my test system and I would be happy with either loom.

Now let the debate begin, just know I'm a fence sitter and not in one camp or the other
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greg22lz
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@nonoise  speaking of cables and break-in, I purchased the Tekton DI's a'nd they are so transparent that I have been having fun listening to the effects of different cables( OMG NOOOOO) in my system. I first plugged in an old ZuMother power chord that I had hanging around. my wife was sitting there, I asked "which one"? She said " oh that one by far" . out came the Speltz and in went the ZuMother. she knows nothing of cost, effect, status, only what it sounds like. Need anymore explanation? Anyway, I ended up buying a pair of Cerious G's and I love them!!!! then came the Blue Fuses. I am really liking what I am hearing!! very engaging and much closer to life like! really incredible for the price and actually I haven't heard anything this good, though I will be touring the Magico facility on Dec. 3rd, with wife, so that should be interesting. she knows nothing about audiophile stuff and is therefore the perfect "test" victim. 
oh gosh, I hope I did not offend any moderators, eeeegadds.

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geoffkait
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Ban that person! 😀
kosst_amojan
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@greg22lz 
Are you calling me some sort of scientist???

I think this would be a lot more fun if people had a thicker skin. 
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geoffkait
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I feel pretty comfortable saying it's probably krosst who's reporting the offending posts. 
greg22lz
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@kosst_amojan well, no, a scientist would actually take information, such as here about cables, and see an opportunity for new reasearch instead of pigeonhole everyone who hears differences as deluded, so no you are more of a pseudo scientist, with an attitude. That's really the difference!
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