The truth about interconnects - can you handle it?

Okay folks. I am kind of new here--oris that "hear"(?), but I am a quidk study. I suspect that anyone moving from Radshack, circuit city, good guys,etc. standard off the shelf cables to Acoustic Zen, Cardas, etc.-quality cables will hear a terrific differance. Perhaps this is enough. There are those of us who appreciateg great bass and especially vocals and there are some cables that might show some differance. I did change from Radshack digital RCA to Acoustic Zen and I am a believer! As far as speaker cables and comparisons, etc., the test is easy: Just wire one speaker with one cable and the other cable goes to the opposite speaker. you can even run the system on mono setting. If you like it, buy it.

The other evening I was visiting a friend and discussion drifted to this new audiophile hobby of mine. After a few more glasses of wine we went onto his office to see what was behind/between all of his gear. The first thing I noticed was a set of monster cable 'Y' connections(male RCA with two female RCA) so he could run music two sources to his receiver. I yanked the 'Y" and connected one of them direct and....he was impressed how much better it sounded. He laughed at how much he had been missing as the connection was done over seven years ago. Next, we disconnected everything swo as to untangle all of his AC cords, interconnects, and speaker cable. It was all twisted together. He had four or five sets of cables that were twisted through everything and yet were hooked to nothing. Now his system sounds quite bearable. Looks like he won't be participating on all of those Audiogon auctions, afterall. i got a nice bottle of wine for my efforts.