“So if you hear a difference with your basic cables compared to others out there, you won’t believe your own ears until you find a way to measure it?”
If I can reliably identify a difference under controlled listening I would believe I heard a difference. By the way, I did not say all cables sound the same. Some are actually colored.
If you could not reliably identify a difference between your cables and basic cables under controlled listening tests would you believe your ears?
Better yet, since for all I know your cables may actually be audibly colored. If I took an original hi res file and the same file that has been run through a basic cable a pro DAC using a stock Uber thin power cord, another basic cable, a pro ADC with a basic power cord, run that to a basic CPU/ server powered by a stock power cord through yet another basic cable and repeated that cycle ten times. So in the end the recording has been run through 30 basic cables, 10 basic CPUs/servers, 10 pro DACs, 10 pro ADCs powered by 30 stock power cords all run through basic power strips. If you could not reliably tell the difference between that 10th generation hi res file that has been through all those allegedly highly colored stages and the original file would you believe your ears?
”It must suck to be you.”
Hate to disappoint you but life is good. But more to the point, I am enjoying audio far far more now than I ever did when I bought into all the BS and was wasting enormous amounts of money on “state of the art high end” cables and power conditioners that only provided a buyers euphoria and no real improvement in sound. Once I got off that merry go round and started focusing on things that matter, using basic understanding of measured performance and correlations between that and personal preferences, and pursuing cutting edge technology both the quality of sound and the enjoyment of my system went up by leaps and bounds.