Experiences With Costly Balanced XLR Interconnects Above $3,000

Blind testing is a great idea because when one pays a fortune for a cable one expects some marvelous change in sound that doesn't exist. That's psychology, and these cable tweaks are a fetish. When I read some reviewer of a component saying he hears different responses when using different cables I become skeptical because that is pure nonsense. Go to ASR and read Amir's excellent review of some crazy Nordost cable and also the one on a Wireworld USB cable. The Wireworld, despite extravagant manufacturer claims, sounds no different than an Amazon basic USB. I can see where people like certain badly rated speakers or prefer tubes to Class D or whatever because they like the sound they are getting which is certainly different. But this cable business is absolute rubbish, unless you are manufacturing and selling them. Some of these cables look very cool. but I'd rather enjoy the music and leave neurosis behind. 

If you can’t trust your hearing then you are in the wrong hobby. 

Have had some great results from AntiCable and some of the higher end Cardas options.  

The funniest thing is that the “Box” cables like Transparent and MIT are frequently bashed as being snake oil.  Those are precisely the only cables that actually offer a musically significant increase in performance.  Otherwise, I agree with fact that wire is wire.

I am very happy to find there is a person who is really sensibly correct. The person is "rtorchia". I wish everybody should be like him!

Therefore, unnecessarily-expensive audio components will be perished from the Earth!