But its easy clicks. Who even gives a shit, if people want to buy snake oil let them.

the analogy I always draw is to wine.

the difference between a $5 bottle and a $20 is perceptible. but, the higher you go, the returns diminish exponentially unless you have a specific taste... and at some point paying the excessive amount of money becomes status not necessity.

yes, potatoes are conductive, but they don't have any shielding and the distance the signal travels in those experiments is irrelevant to practical applications. it is essentially a big wire nut.

if your application is long distances through conduit or many cables run in parallel you need higher quality ones with shielding. Granted, that is not the typical listener's case.

Listening in style is the what being an audiophile is all about 😎.

You could replace the $7 Amazon cable every week and it will still be cheaper than a $4000 cable that lasts ten years

That's not the scientific method lmao

Thank you for proving the placebo effect is real.

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.

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