The truth about interconnects - can you handle it?

Tom,
Hope no hard fealings 'bout "cryin' towel"?:-)

Seems to me that you're not "just listening" but calculating before... and this I consider also as a scientific tool to objectively evaluate worthiness of an investment.
Many present cases with interconnects and speaker wires do not require scientific knowlege of electronics and measurements and only by doing budget estimate you realize
what stays on right place and what does not.

Tazuser, I agree with your statements. I believe that the capacitance influences the signal that emerges at the output.
My experience is not scientific, per se. I was a reviewer at one time and it seemed that the lower capacitance cables allowed more "freedom" musically speaking. Don't know why, but it did. And another point: putting a cable into the system and then playing it right after inserting it is a waste of time. The cables "settle," I was told in "the old days" and it was considered a waste of time to evaluate them as soon as you had put them into the system. It was suggested that we listen to a cut as soon as we put them into the system, and then listen to the same cut after 1/2 hour and then after 2 hours. Usually, and I repeat, USUALLY, you'd hear a difference.

Marakanetz, no hard feelings. Everything's cool.