if interconnect cable is so important, why aren’t the amps, preamps, and especially speakers similarly wired point to point? It’s meant not as a snark, but a straightforward question. I have never gotten not only a good answer, I have never gotten any answer. At all.
Maybe that’s because the typical "you need to invest (sic) at least $1,000 in your USB and Ethernet cables" folks don’t know how their gear is built or what’s in it, and have zero interest in finding out, just like a person who believes the earth is flat has no interest in travelling to the edge of it: If, heaven forbid, there were no edge there, they’d have to renounce their belief; and if there was in fact an edge, they might fall off, and that’s dangerous. So, all in all, disincentives all around to go find out.