Do you consider cables to be a "component" of your system?

There must be something wrong with me,but to my way of thinking its just a no brainer,how can the quality of and fashion in which the cables that are  interconnecting the different components or send the signal out to your speakers not be important? So then by that rationale it must also not be important to use the best materials and manufacturing methods in the building of the individual components themselves right? 

“Congratulations,your thought process about the importance of cables is exactly the outcome desired by the marketing department’s of audio cable manufacturers “just checked out your system ( beautiful btw ) what do they get for a cable cooker?maybe I’ll chug a little a that Kable Kool aid and get drunk enough to pop for one a those.

Wait what ? So Mitch 2 in the time  since you started the “ usb cable play offs” thread back in 2016 and said “ in general I found the Totaldac usb cable to have excellent clarity, body, tone and energy while the  ifi Gemini cable leans more towards the dark side with a mix of richness, fullness and darkness while still displaying a sufficient level if detail” your views on cables have changed ? Excellent clarity, body, tone and energy?

I think Romax is more commonly found in sex shops , there is however a type of sheathed electrical wire rated for residential applications called Romex and yes one could use it as speaker wire.