Your argument boils down to that everything in science is a theory and thus is unproven and can be easily ignored in favor of pseudo-science.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding about how science and the scientific method works.

Lets put your money where your mouth is. Next Can Jam you take your HD800 and some cables of choice. They can be copper, silver, twisted, whatever you want as long as its just a wire, not something with an inductive, resistive or capacitive network. We will then hold a controlled ABX test and if...

There were also no differences in THD. Maybe IMD was different? Highly unlikely, but who knows. I think it's probably just bias and autosuggestion at work, but its very hard for people to admit their are fallible.

In that case the government should step in. False advertising is not allowed in many countries. Cognitive bias is the only explanation since measurements and DBT's already have shown there is no difference otherwise. You forget about the impact it has on the hobby. It kills the reputation with...

The frequency response (or better said the frequency response of the sound reaching your eardrum) of headphones changes with positioning on your head, so there might have been some change. But it shouldn't change the volume. If you broke the cable running inside (seems like there is?) I would...

I understand they have vested interest in keeping the status quo. Your argument about patents make no sense though, there are fields where proving you are the best does hold real value: pro audio. Are you really saying cognitive bias is an unknown part of psychoacoustics? Its probably one of...

There are hundreds of cable manufacturers. Are you saying none of these have any interest in proving their cables actually do make a difference by publishing peer reviewed articles at AES? I don't think that, but that is was certain subjectivists want us to believe. Because they are stating it...

This is the cable for which a user stated he could hear differences in the frequency response. So this is not an answer to the question posed by OP.

This the argument I've been making for years. If you figure out what that "unmeasurable" thing is that makes certain cables sound so good you can make so much money. And think about the prestige, you will most certainly win an AES award for your publications if you can prove you have figured it...

Nobody is telling you that you don't hear a difference. I am 100% convinced you hear a difference in cables. We only differ in opinion about why you are hearing these differences. Can I ask what kind of education you have had?

There are plenty of people buying $200+ cables for $400 headphones.

The worst part about it, is that the money spend on these cables could have been spend on stuff that actually matters and they would see major gains in fidelity. No, his point was that it could not be measured. I mean heard changes in the frequency response, but you wouldn't be able to see...

You simply cannot convince people they don't make a difference. Already had a user here on the forum stating they heard a cable make changes to the frequency response (more presence, more mid bass and things like that ) but that these changes cannot be measured in the frequency response. Where...

Had to check the official head-fi glossary and it seems you are mostly experiencing a change in frequency response. Cool.