To aka-ca. Now that you have sufficiently schooled the membership in the art and science of selecting speaker cable. Let me respond:
I agree with your points 1) and 2)
On point three where you state...." THAT JAW DROPPING IMPROVEMENT is a highly biased anecdotal and personal value judgement. at best..." I can assure you that none of the psychological social adjectives you attached to the phrase "jaw dropping" were conjured up by me in the dead of night paging through either the Alchemist and Freudian dictionary, and then touching my nose and spinning around three times to select the word "jaw dropping" That was the best word I could think at the time, and there was no hidden second meaning implied. You seem to have a word sensitivity problem, or an exponent of the French School of linguistic deconstruction. You are over-parciing the context of the thread
Most members realize or know that the improvement offered by speaker cables costing between $500-1000 is only marginal, and that some improvement should be "probably" heard with a $1500 pair of speaker cables compared to a $500 pair of cables. However, that is not a given. In the same way, that a $5000 pair of speaker cables will not necessarily provide 3 and half times sound improvement over the $1500..speaker cables. That may be the first commandment of high-end audio: that incremental improvement of sound can not be necessarily attained doubling or tripling the buyer's outlay of money That may be true across the board for other audio components. Yet in the chart of price vs performance ratio, there are bumps along the way. For example, Clear Day Cable '"Double Shotgun" speaker cable is extraordinarily good value for the money, and that almost applies to Audio Art 5se cable( though, I happened to like the sound of the Clear Day cable which I auditioned at home, and owned the less expensive AA SC5 speaker cable.
Lastly, I think it would be informative and helpful if member Akg-ca before making what seems like "insider" power point proclamations, list his components, especially the cables used so we can understand and evaluate the level of his audio system
Thank you to other members who responded so far. SJ
