Never underestimate the capacity of a human being to believe something with all their might, armed with nothing other than faith that there is a āGodā pick a god, any god someone is believing it, hell even willing to die for it.
Likewise there are people that swear up and down that their $6500 dollar pair of speaker cables "brings out something in the sound that makes it sound better than the $1500 dollar pair that they previously had. Theyāll swear this with all the passion a human being can muster and all the faith a Southern Baptist Deacon can deliver on a Sunday morning sermon.
I am however a man or reason, a man of logic, a man of science. Thus I know that different materials having different properties will conduct electricity differently because they will inherently have a different load than other cables made of other materials or of different lengths or of different gauges. Hell if the guy making your uber expensive cables was eating a tuna fish sandwich for lunch and managed to get a little bit of oil on one of the cable ends before they were crimped, that will make it sound differently. How much difference these femto-sized variations actually make is the reason people jump from a $1500 dollar pair of cables to that $6500 dollar pair.
In the end what theyāre buying is status, the look, the quality, the bullshit and least of all the sound.
Yes, you can hear a difference going from 16 gauge lamp cord to a nice high purity ofc copper properly terminated, clean and free from oxidation, making as secure a connection on the terminals. Ideally these terminals are made of the same material as the copper cable and if you REALLY WANTED GOOD SPEAKER CABLES, youād solder the cable from the cross over, unbroken all the way through to the board on the amplifierā¦ forgo all connections between the two points. But we never see anyone advocating for that and Iām 100% certain that would provide a far superior connection between an amp and a speaker than a $100,000 speaker cable.
After a certain point, construction, quality and other factors such as flexibility, looks etc. Youāre buying a placebo and nothing you can say will change that. Your hearing is not that fucking good, I promise. But you can believe all you want because itās your word, your ears and your money.
Iāll leave you with a hilarious example that Iāve mentioned here before. Paul from PS audio goes on and on, waxing poetically about the high level of resolution he gets from his Infinity Kappa monsters in ālistening room 1ā how he can change the cables, an RCA cable or a speaker cable and immediately tell the difference and how cables matter and blah blah blah.
In one of the vids, heās standing behind said Infinity Kappa reference speakers, these things were built in the 90s with no expense spared. And every single driver in the tower is wired in the back together and guess what speaker wire they used? Yeah, you guessed it. Monster Cable. He goes on to make a shuddering sound and say ugh Monster cable, I have to do something about that one of these days. Talk about the ultimate in WTF moments in the history of audiophelia. The speakers are the most resolving blah blah blah, but theyāre wired with Monster cables and for 20 years heās been happier than a pig in shit with them. Beyond a certain point itās all snake oil, chug it down with gusto if you wish.
Carry on.