Hahaha... that's when the venom inject and become toxic...Anyone needs proof that cables change sonics for the better. Just buy any Chi fi iems mentioned on the threads, they come with the most basic of cables and most of the time not even close to being optimal for the sound they are going for. Throw on any of the cables mentioned on this thread and if you can't tell the difference.
Don't know what to tell you.
Anyway, his point is try it first...
Firstly, I just want to say I really appreciate all the hard work and advice you've given in objectively measuring good value, affordable cables. Your 'Resistance of Cables' thread is an incredible resource for prospective cable buyers.
You say your change to a 'believer' in cables was 100% scientific. Have you done any blind ABX tests of your cables? Having a large collection of cables with differing physical measurements, properties, materials, and construction, and claiming to be able to discern small differences between them apart from due to resistance, you would be the perfect person to test this claim, and prove that resistance is not the only determinant of sound quality for cables.
This would be a relatively straightforward test to set up. All you would need is an IEM you use for critical listening, a blindfold, a friend, and among the many you’ve already measured, two cables of differing capacitance or material used (e.g. pure copper, pure silver, spc etc) but with as similar, low resistances as you can find. The ABX test would be done like so (your friend needs to read all of this in detail too):
1. Make sure your friend knows how to correctly connect both cable’s pins to your IEM before starting the test, name one of them ‘1’ and the other ‘2’ (make sure they remember which is which), and prepare a high quality test track that you know well (preferably one that covers the whole frequency range).
2. Leave both cables and the IEM in another room with your friend.
3. Go to a different room and put on a thick piece of material for a blindfold that completely covers all of your vision, and tell your friend you're ready to begin the test. From now on there should be minimal, if any, communication between you to, to avoid any unconscious verbal signalling from your friend about what cables are being used.
4. Your friend randomly picks one of the cables (‘1’ or ‘2’) and connects it to your IEM (they should use Google’s random number generator for this – they just need to type ‘random number generator’ into Google, change ‘max’ to 2, and click ‘generate’.) They write down which cable was chosen.
5. Your friend takes the chosen cable and IEM to you and puts it in your ears. The tricky part here is they can’t let you touch any part of the cable, let it rest over your chest etc. as the tiniest difference in weight on your lap or texture of the cable may give away (even subconsciously) which one is being used. They should place the IEM in your ears and loop the cable back over your ears themselves, while holding the jack end so it doesn’t rest on your lap. Then they can guide your hands to the IEM itself for you to get a correct seal in your ears. (If at any point you feel like you’ve touched any part or felt the weight of the cable, the test on that cable must be cancelled, and the test restarted with a new randomly chosen cable. This is very important.)
6. While still holding the cable from the jack in the air to prevent it touching you, your friend plugs it into your source and presses play on your chosen track. Listen for as long as you want to get an idea for how the track sounds with this cable, then ask your friend to disconnect the cable from the source, remove the IEM from your ears, again taking care that at no point does the cable touch you, and cancelling that test if it does.
7. Your friend takes the cable to the other room, then again runs the random number generator. If the number is different to the cable used, they swap the cable, if it’s the same, they should wait a minute or so before coming back into the room with you, so you wouldn’t be able to tell from the lack of delay that there’s been no cable swap. Again this is important.
8. Repeat step 5 with this cable.
9. Your friend asks you if you think the second cable was the same as the first, or a different one. They write down your answer, without telling you the result (again important).
10. Repeat steps 4-9 nine more times, for a total of 10 trials. This is to get a statistically significant result, otherwise a correct guess could just be due to chance.
You can then look at the results and see how many times you guessed which cable you were listening to correctly. I know some of those steps might seem pedantic to people on here, but if you want to be truly 100% scientific and prove that resistance is not the only cable property that can audibly affect sound quality, all variables must be carefully controlled for. Our auditory (and other) perceptions are unfortunately very prone to a whole host of unconscious biases and placebo, so a blind ABX test is the only way to know for sure what is a real, and what is an imagined effect.
I don’t claim to know 100% with absolute certainty that you won’t be able to tell the difference between the cables (maybe you will). I only know that there is currently no known physics or psychoacoustics that could explain an audible difference. In a way, it would be exciting if you proved this wrong, then that might mean we actually have to re-evaluate our theories.
I did this...
even send all my cable collections to a person who is not audio addict like me. Not even tell him the basic technical what the cable is emphasizing.
But his experience in music is more then me, since he is a musician...
his impression also unique and now become a cable believer, more fanatic then me.. hahaha.. this is dangerous...
My point, try it first. Good Source (DAP/music player and IEM) is a must. Dont forget the music File (Flac). So everything is correlate...
And have to admit, Cable on IEM affect more (my own Impression) then on Headphone..
But again, try to be open mind.
Chuck Norris can hear song without cable attached to DAP nor IEM.....Chuck Norris !!!