Plant earth calling.
Cables can provide a sound of their own, they are certainly marketed for whatever that nuance is. But any 'sound' any component makes is distortion. And distracts from and corrupts the music being played (whatever the sonic quality of the given source material may be).
To characerize the various degree, and sonic quality of that particular distoriton is more sorcery than science.
I put $3000 worth of cables back on the market, donned a trench coat, shades, and a false beard, and stealthed my way into RadioShack to get some Megawire, and interconnects.
By installing these products I fully expected an audio trainwreck, only to find the system just sounded a little more real.
Face it, gents, the subtlety of difference, especially in the wire that connects two components together, is less than whether the refrigerator or FAU is running, the widow is open or closed, the mood you happen to be in at the time, or the degree to which you are concentrating.
Of primary concern to achive any kind of realism in musical electronic playback is the speakers, sized for the environment in which they will operate, their setup in that space, and secondly, the degree of distortion produced by the amp selected to power them.
Once 'true to original' is obtained in the system in thisway, discrimination can then be placed on the sonic quaility, and engineering, of the source material selected.
Of course when you can actually hear what is on the recordings, much of what is in your collection will have become intolerable. Though some will be heard to be far more superior than could otherwise be discerned through the degree of distoriton, and perhaps improper setup, previously in the system.
Once there, the particulars of the top end gear, cables, and tweaks, will have lost all significance, and may have even been forgotten since you are now so immersed in the live like realism of the music.
