Furball
That’s a chance I’d be willing to take! I suggest that it’d be damned difficult to mess with a bit of wire to the extent that it’s design would actually have an audible effect on the output of a stereo component.
I recently ran a 'blind' post of two lossless .wav files and posted it on several forums. The 'guesses' were around 50/50 and you should have seen the cables! One was cut in several places and taped with cellophane tape, ground in the dirt, had it’s prongs pounded with a hammer and twisted with pliers, left to rust and randomly spliced with thin speaker cable. The cable it was compared to was a very well-built ‘PSAudio Prelude’ power cable. If folks have a difficult time guessing one or the other in that outrageous situation, I suggest that there will be a significant challenge ahead of them in audibly discerning an intact generic computer cable from any well-built 'high-end' cable.
VeipaCray
Mic / RTA software results would be challenged over the room acoustics / mic preamp etc… The best solution is still to have the cable’s designer sit down and make decisions on audibility in his own home, with his own stereo, music etc. That way all ‘negative’ variables are eliminated.
Andrew D.
Canadian Audio Video