Cable Snake Oil Antidote

Yup. Poorly designed and poorly matched gear will be affected audibly by the slight impedance of a cable. High fidelity gear will not.

@geoffkait 

Exactly! 

@ieales 

Sorry but the laws of physics are very clear. You are just making stuff up.

Only badly designed and badly matched gear are going to make audible differences with a normal short run of wire to the speakers.

There is no masking effect - you are thinking perhaps of MPEG audio compression codecs? 

There is such a thing as a skin effect but it is really not worth even the time of day to discuss this at audio frequencies - negligible.

No argument. Audio signals and power are alternating but I thought you knew that. This means no directionality in wire or nothing electrical would work properly as everything arrives alternating on wires.

Yup. Controlling marketing spin and nonsense hype of all their cables and power cords seem to be what they excel at. It works too. Lots of gullible folks around. Of course only a clever fellow can see what beautiful clothes are worn by the emperor.

@cj1965 

I don’t understand you. 

James Brown said it correctly, “It is what it is”

There are no answers to silly questions that have no place in mathematics and physics. 

As as it stands DNA seems the most likely candidate for what we think of as “life giving creation”. Certainly not as exciting as a guy with a beard up in heaven but science is science and it does not purport to answer deeper meanings as to why things are the way they are but simply how everything behaves or behaved - offering a glimpse about the future or what happened in the past or as mundane as what happens if you drive your truck at 100 MPH into a brick wall. 

Propagating strands of DNA or RNA seems to be what life is about - why else do you carry around 99% of useless turned off genes - why else does 51% of your genes match a banana. Humans are irrelevant to DNA and RNA, we are just one small subset of hundreds billions of various critters that all cary it.

@geoffkait

No theory. Just facts. DNA is in all living things. This is what all plants and animals share in common. Pretty obvious really. DNA is what fundamentally replicates.  As obvious as the earth goes round the sun. Just not as exciting as a guy with a beard as it suggests humans are rather irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. 

@geoffkait 

It doesn’t matter how a 1 or a 0 is represented on a CD. Only that two states can be accurately decoded and that some built in error correction (extra info like a parity bit or checksum) further ensures accuracy of decoding.

This might be a stretch for you but the concept of digital audio does not actually require a CD to come inscribed with arabic numerals on it. Your personal computer hard drive or SSD also doesn’t have Arabic numerals inscribed on the memory storage.