Quote Originally Posted by blackraven
Here's an interesting thread by Frank Van Alstine about a blind test comparing $1500 cables to plain old 16g zip cord. Scroll down the page.

http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/i...topic=60159.20
It's been quite a few years but I also compared MIT (I can't recall the model) with zip cord. The audible differences between the two were among the broadest of any two cables I've ever compared. I preferred the zip cord. The MIT sounded like it was trying to clear up some perceived faults of early digital - it sounded cloudy and closed-in. It was at that point that I began to wonder if the fact that many cables sound different because they are engineered to veer from perfect neutrality. I haven't come to any conclusions. Usually there is one (of two) cables that sounds "better" to my ears but that doesn't mean it hasn't been tampered with in some way to make it pleasing to me.