How to A/B Test Power Cables & Interconnects?

By listening of course, you compare them with different type of music,from jazz, classical, folk song, rock, reggae, vocal, speed, layering, bass midrange,extension, musicality, to see how this Cables sounds , performs on each type of music..Get silver, copper, liquid cables, solid core or strand.This is a lot of work, but it pays off.

IMHO you don't need a double blind ABX test to evaluate a cable vs. another (or any audio equipment for that matter). When you hear it, you will know. If you have a hard time hearing the difference not blind, then it's not worth it doing the change. When you immediately hear the difference, then you will know right away. Then swap back to "old" cable, and give it a listen. As simple as that.

Good luck! it's fun, just take your time with it, and keep an open mind

Fast switching is far more revealing than long term tests; auditory memory is less reliable as time goes by. Here’s a good synopsis of a paper on the subject:

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/aes-paper-digest-sensitivity-and-reliability-of-abx-blind-testing.186/

I’m a cable skeptic, which puts me in a (somewhat reviled) minority on this forum. But the evidence is clear that for all the differences audiophiles write about with respect to cables, the perceived differences utterly and completely fail to replicate under scientifically controlled conditions.

We don’t listen under controlled conditions, and that is certainly also something to think about - you should buy what will make you happy in your listening at home. But the overwhelming testing evidence should give you pause as to whether you should spend any money at all on fancy cables.

You should absolutely conduct some AB (or better ABX) tests, blind if possible, with as quick a comparison as you can manage. But then do what makes you happiest with your newly expanded knowledge.

Here are two good thread with compendia of various blind tests:

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/testing-audiophile-claims-and-myths.486598/

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,82777.0.html

Specifically for cables

http://djcarlst.provide.net/abx_wire.htm

and stay tuned for the surprise reveal at the end of this one:

https://www.audio-forums.com/articles/interconnect-cable-blind-listening-test.15/

You might also want to look at Ethan Winer’s null tester results - the cables aren’t even sending significantly different signals, so why, exactly, would the speakers behave differently when presented with the same exact electrical signal?

https://www.audioxpress.com/article/you-can-diy-building-a-null-tester-device

Wouldn't it be a whole lot more honest if people like aholer would just come out and state clearly up front whether or not they are capable of hearing? Instead of hiding behind what someone else says, take responsibility. If you hear it, say so. If you don't, admit it.

Why the dishonesty?

I’m not hiding behind anything. I don’t hear differences between interconnects, speaker cables, and most amps. Or rather when I’ve sat down and done *immediate comparisons* the differences aren’t there. In that sense, I’m like....everyone else, apparently.

But I’m just one guy with biases, like you (perhaps even a bias *not* to hear a difference, the opposite of the problem Stereophile ran into). Larger population, properly conducted blind studies are much more compelling evidence than my individual experience, and thus more relevant to the OP.

And it is "ahoFer" (capital for emphasis), but you knew that.