What have you learned about all the cable swapping in general in your audiophile journey?
Unlike the other one I actually have a system https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 and have tried a lot of things and always heard a different. What I have learned is on my System page: Everything matters.
I could go on for a long time.
That's the problem. At our present level of understanding we have no really useful set of principles on which to base performance. Maybe some day we figure it out and hey, its electron spin, all these other things are just derivatives or variations on electron spin. Or maybe not. Who knows. All I know is I can't argue with any of the general descriptions in the OP. But neither can I say they really tell us anything. What I mean is the OP knows all this stuff and yet even he can't look at a wire, compare to his list, and know. All that long list, still has to listen. So the list doesn't really tell us anything.
Yet another example, pretty darn fascinating one too I think. Got some Synergistic CTS cables last year. Copper, Tungsten, Silver, and its evident the copper is warm and full bass, tungsten beautiful midrange, silver detailed extension. Okay, fine. Active shielding. What's that? Its not touching the wire, its not in the signal path. Disconnected the sound is flat, dull, lifeless. Plugged in the sound is dynamic, deep, and present. Change a tuning bullet, whatever the heck that is, the whole thing goes super warm, or mega detailed, depending. It gets better. Change caps and diodes in the wall wart power supply and the character does not change like that but it does get a whole lot more detailed, liquid, dynamic, deep, and wide. Just way more of everything. From a cap. And a diode. Nowhere near the signal path.
Everything matters. But I haven't the foggiest idea why.