This is a thread with a 140 posts, from people that have years and years of hands on experience at the topic on hand, and in comes a bumbling blow-hard know it all, and proceeds to emphatically claim that everyone here is delusional, and his 5 dollars interconnects, and 20 dollars lamp cord sounds no different than any and everything else.
Starts talking about delusions, and fooling yourself etc etc etc....
I don’t get it......it’s like a fly in an ointment, a cockroach in a soup, such a productive conversation derailed by a deaf audiophile. These people should take up photography.... if you cannot hear tones, timbre, pitch, resolution, staging, separation, etc etc etc maybe music isn’t really your thing ?And if I was half deaf, I definitely wouldn’t go around proudly advertising it.
The OP asked a question, why are you made because I am being honest with the OP? But no problem chief, tell me what to listen for, and how to do the testing?
I don’t know how much more honest that I can be but to say that I hear speaker differences way more easily than power cords.
And amplifier difference often, but not as clear cut as speakers.
How could I be convinced that the cords make a difference, when I cannot hear them, but the speakers are easily heard?
(Is that a symptom of half deaf?)
And if the OP is half deaf then at least he/she/they will have funds left over for hearing aids. 😋