I've seen a Youtube of my speaker cables being cut to pieces. I does not affect my opinion at all. The following is why I picked my cables. A local audiophile and equipment collector loaned me a large amount of cables to audition in my system. All the product was from well respected companies, at the time. I liked the brand with the stupid looking plastic box present in the cable run. MIT cables just sounded better with my gear and in my room. Funny, I tried not to like them. I hate those crazy looking plastic boxes but sometime it's not about how it looks but how it sounds.