Are cable recommendations worth anything?

It's all good folks. 
Sometimes it's difficult to discern what the intention is from behind a keyboard.

All the best,
Nonoise

Medicine has a hard enough time ensuring honest outcomes when testing placebos: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK546641/

Conflating such a medical procedure with what can be done with audio samples is rather silly. It can give the illusion of rigor and science but it doesn't equate.

A patient can exhibit all manner of responses to a placebo, but in the end, that patient will succumb to the disease. That's in the long run. What I hear may be tricked by a parlor trick but my tastes that developed from what I hear will always be there, in the long run. It proves nothing.

Does a recording engineer torture him/herself with repeated DB testing, or does he just A/B the sample and proceed from there? Audiophiles are no different in that they're very disciplined in the art of listening, especially in the context of their own system, and know a difference when they hear it. That's science, folks.

Don't let the audio commies dumb down everything to the point where no one has a system better than someone else because they all sound the same and that nothing better can be achieved. Trust your ears.

All the best,
Nonoise

Double blind tests are nothing more than a parlor trick, right up there with seances. You can take something 100% provable and subject people to a DB "test" and come back with 50-50 results. All it proves is that uncertainty increases under the guise of testing. Bias is never eliminated but skewed for all the wrong, unanticipated reasons.

Also, I never heard of doing any type of DB test involving more than a few seconds between samples. Even the Amazing Randy knew that if  enough time were to elapse, most would be able to suss out the correct cable and he'd have to pay out that $1million. It's long term listening that audiophiles do to figure things out so he kept the time frame short between takes.

All the best,
Nonoise