I can hear a difference!

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You seek cables to be a contributing factor in sonic of your system, where I seek cables that minimize that factor.

I'll rephrase that. I acknowledge that cables have an audible effect in the real world of interactions between electronic devices and speakers. I neither seek nor avoid the fact. I simply acknowledge it and move on.

So next time you say "Who does that?" when it comes to using a cable as an equalizer, I will point you to this post

What do you mean by that? I use bass traps as equalizers in the main system and use a third octave EQ on the subs in the HT.

As you said there are alot of [uncontrollable] variables in an audio chain. But at least in the cable loop a listener can exercise some control over that variable by keep it transparent

Exactly! Experiment and empirically determine which cables damage the signal integrity the least bit when used in your real world system! Simplistic and isolated analysis of RCL characteristics, however, is completely incapable of doing that!

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