Guys stop arguing about the same. Please understand for a good darn time, that we have been arguing for decades like that, wanna know why? It is very simple, because nobody had supplied the evidences needed to disprove either one of the sides, and until this happen just believe what you want and try to be happy...
Just please be considerate with the other field, and do not offend the others, same way we respect politics and religion, we should respect the cables issue, as IMO it is based in the same approach more or less: faith. No evidence, and to me it is a faith, believe and argue all you want, and you are only defending or detracting some kind of a faith...period...
You will see a few of those guys, planning to go for the challenge, and later on at the last minute, any accident will happen and they can not go, (including maybe secret arrangements with the manufacturers, that at the end are the ones that will be more affected, if all result in being a farse...)
Now my question: if all the ones that will go to the test fail miserably, and there is no way to determine that the differences exist by them (or by you) in that test, my question is: will the believers stop??? Of course not, they will still be arguing that maybe there was a flaw, or maybe the person involved was not up to the task, or was drunk, or that the setup has this or that, or that they were not familiar with the setup, them usic played was not good enough, etc...any reason for absurd that it looks will be used to keep on the debate, so what is the point then???
There was one test in which a member
here sent out three cables to be tested in the comfort of your home, using the setup you are familiar with, so no excuses...the results were totally random...and evne though they found excuses to that!!!
OK, I know that even while the test was supposed to determine which was the silver, cooper, and RS wire, and that IMO is totally personal as to believe which is the better sounding cable, but the fact was that the results was all mixed, therei sn o way that ap errson could conmsider the best sounding cable the RS, other the Silver and other the Canare, being all audiophiles as they claim ot be, there was only one guy who guessed correctly!!! the rest did not hear a **** in the test, were all guessing!!!!