Theoretical cable question

"The reason cables can’t be measured in terms of how they sound are so dependent on the amp the speakers and the room. However, the electrical properties of cables can be measured and may help one decide which ones to try if they have unusual situations: long runs, difficult to drive speakers, low output amps, etc. thanks"

That’s exactly what they used to say about amplifiers. But we now know specs don’t mean very much. Amplifiers with two orders of magnitude better THD can sometimes sound much worse than Amplifer X. So, I would say, no, the electrical properties of cables don’t help anyone decide which cables to buy. No one has compared cables in terms of sound quality and correlated that to Measured electrical properties, which is really what is needed. Alas, no one has ever done it. When did all this cable ruckus start, 40 years ago?
time flies when you’re having fun. 😀 If what you say were true that all anyone would have to do is measure the electrical properties, L, R and C, then pick the cable with the best measurements. That’s why this cable controversy has been around for 40 years. Hel-loo!

Just to add this little note. In the history of audio almost no one has ever measured cables. No one. Therefore anyone who is only interested in cable parameters that can be measured is going to be very very disappointed. 😥

Not to be too argumentative here, but I believe it’s actually a Strawman Argument to claim or imply that impedance, resisitance and capacitance are the only factors, or even the governing factors, involved in cables sounding one way or the other. It’s not too difficult to see why it’s a Strawman Argument, either. The type of dielectric, the purity of the metal conductor, the type of metal conductor, the addition or not of trace amounts of gold to the pure metal, standed vs unstranded conductor, conductor diameter, whether the conductor is metal or liquid or amorphous (carbon), cable geometry, shielded vs unshielded, even the color of the cable jacket, are some of the other variables. Also, whether and how the cable is broken in, and whether the cable is cryo’d. And we don’t even have to get into wire directionality which is yet another variable, no?