Look, the idea that there are some mysterious factors about electrical signals (not "sonics") that we don't know about is, well, ridiculous. People who are scientifically illiterate, and who know nothing about electric theory and its application have decided that there is more to it that we can measure, or know about, or whatever. Such people are resorting not to the mythical, but to the mystical. Sorry, there ain't anything a conductor can do to an electrical signal other than offer up some LR or C. And the effects are completely known (can be calculated). Where is the evidence for something else? Name it and win a Nobel prize. Beware of technobabble in the field of high fidelity audio. If you must deal with something we don't understand that well or something that is complicated enough to use chaos theory--look to acoustics and psychoacoustics.

I haven't kept a list of all the blind tests I have read about, and they don't all address cables (some deal with electronics and other factors). Not all have negative results, but if you are talking about the factors that consistently do have negative results AND have little or no theoretical support, I'd estimate that I have read between 25-50 such tests over a long period (one reason I can't remember). Why don't you ask how many tests I have read about where someone is clearly able to tell cables apart when he can only hear them? The answer to that is zero (in the 30 years or so that expensive cables have been offtered).

People who attempt such tests have learned long ago that if you don't use high end equipment, then the high enders will dismiss you. (Even though they cannot show they acutally can distinguish such equipment other than speakers.) So, the tests I have read almost always use extremely overpriced--er, I mean "detailed" equipment. Sometimes they use a listener's own home equipment, and, of course the listeners ALL claimed they could hear differences PRIOR to the test.

You are showing some signs of being under the influence of the high end bug when you use words like "detail". Does that mean you can't hear some instruments? Sound is an air pressure wave. Waves have only two characteristics frequency (pitch) and amplitude (volume). Reproduced sound also has distortion, which can be heard as noise (sound that wasn't there originally) and inaccurate pitch and volume (as that is all there is). Now if you believe there are limits human perception of distortion, pitch, and volume then you will probably wonder what those limitis are. Modern audio electronics (including wires) have measureable performance outside those limits (note this does not apply to mikes, speakers, and listening envrionments) therefore people cannot tell them apart (and they don't when tested).

Sorry to spoil the "fun" of hobbiests who need to believe, but if you really want accuracy (not "detail") then you should attend to factors that really matter (and some are huge).