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I tested this myself as a skeptic, just changed the cabels, but was able to hear a very clear difference with my ears. Although I couldn't explain that difference as I lacked the vocabulary, still do.
Maybe the testing criteria can't capture that difference either. Either way, you should do you own testing and figure out what you like since this is subjective.
Edit: the scientific method is to test for yourself.
Edit 2: I don't care if you downvote me, but if you refuse to test things like this out for yourself I am disappointed.
That's not the scientific method lmao
When i was about 9, i was absolutely convinced i could find water with the help of two metal rods. Whenever I held it over water, they would just magically cross without me doing anything. Until my dad filled some opaque cups with water and kept some empty, and put paper over all of them. I failed hard at sensing the the ones with water, even though i had earlier confirmed it worked on a cup with water in it.
Ever since that day I learned never to trust my own brain with things like these. Even though it might not be on purpose, our brain subconsciously deceives us into confirming our own bias.
You can try it out yourself. Have someone else switch the cables while you are not in the room. The try and identify which cable they used purely by sound. It's not as good as a double blind test, but it should be enough to test your own claim.
I don't care if you believe me, it sounded different in a indescribable way.
If music is important to you I think doing tests like this is something you should do to see if there is a difference for you.
Basically I see a test like this and it seems like this food has the same nutrients as this more expensive food so its the same, while not being able to test for how food actually tastes.
Expensive things are not automatically better, don't get me wrong.
Bruh you can tell us you have superpowers all you want, we have science telling us otherwise.
Thank you for proving the placebo effect is real.
As long as the cables are the correct guage and have shielding, there ahould be no audible difference.
You should have a friend switch them randomly and do 100 or so test listens, then report how often you guess it right. That would be more scientific, and if you had a good success rate would probably be a good basis for future experimentation by more professional teams. I truly encourage you to try this