The Physics of Electricity

"is this when "quality" electrons make a difference??"

That's right. As we know electrons only shake in place at AC when electric charge moves. Young electrons shake eagerly while old stale ones don't want to shake. All is in the electrons! Wanna buy some?

Kijanki, what's sad is I understand. Thanks for the offer, but I like "shake and bake" KFC.

Wires are like ice cream. They come in all different flavors. The good ones are the ones that sound best in your system. Cost is not an effective determiner of end performance. Great sounding wires might cost just a few dollars or thousands.

One feature that clearly matters in many cases is whether the wire is shielded or not. Unshielded wires can pick up noise from nearby electronic devices more easily. Digital devices, switching amps, and power amps or other household devices with large power transformers and RF noise from radio waves are the common sources. LOw level signals like that from MC or even MM phono carts are most susceptible, though line level sources including the signal from pre-amp to power amp can be affected in a quite negative manner that may or may not be apparent from listening by these kinds of EM and RF fields.

I also tend to like wires with network devices that attempt to maintain constant electric properties like impedance by design regardless of length, etc.

It gets a lot greyer after these few things to me.....

DNM reson ICs are inexpensive, simple, and golden in my estimation however are not the best choice in some applications where a shielded wire is called for.

Even teh inexpensive networked ICs from MIT are very good. These are also shielded I believe.

Maybe it's not so much what the wires themselves "do", but what the components connected to the wires make them "do".

The same old question.
I have to answer "42" as the answer to all of lifes' big questions.
Some folks take a stand that 'all wires are the same' and some say 'wires are different' and the two camps have been battling it out ever since before the first MonsterCable hit the store shelves.
Gold plated, Silver plated, solid silver, roduim plated, nickel plated, OFC copper, super single crystal copper, exotic metals, no shield, gordians knot woven supercalfragalistic,
the endless ways folks make stuff into saleable stuff.

I buy Kimber stuff myself, Kimber Hero, and I even have some used KCAG I bought before the stuff costs an arm and a leg. And some old Mark Levinson wire with Vampire brand tiffany style RCAs Kimber 8TC speaker wire..

And why do we argue about this? Everyone has made up thier mind already. The few on the fence are probably going to try a tip toe into minimum aftermarket cables.
The folks who love the 'good stuff' are not gonna get religion and dump them.

So what is this OP trying to find out?
Whether the hornets nest can still be poked for a good buzz once again. And the answer is obviously YES!!
Troll 1 respondents 0 (the op may possibly not actually be a troll, just asking a trollish question IMO)