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Best way to hear sonic signature of a cable?

For all the cable-heads out there: can someone suggest a way to test cables? the best way i've come up with so far is using only a headphone amp (with a volume control) and a cdp and listening through a set of cans. this keeps only one set of interconnects in the system. but it still doesn't tell me what the interconnects will do once a preamp is added, etc.

what do you folks do when you don't have enough resources to swap out an entire system with difference interconnects?
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s23chang
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"try to listen on the most efficient set of speakers possible- you will hear more of the differences..."

This is not always true. One can argue that high efficient speakers has lower requirement. Therefore, you can't hear as bigger difference because it doesn't draw as much current/voltage through the cable. I found the less efficient setups can hear the same amount of differences too. It really depends on your overall setup.

Consistency is the key to test the sonic signature. It doesn't matter how many setups you test, you should always get identical results.

I've always compared any cable over 5 totally different setups and found the result always identical.
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