Quote Originally Posted by skeptic
I don't support buying them either but for an entirely different reason. In more than 20 years since this cottage industry has been in existance, I have yet to see even one single attempt by the people who manufacture or retail them to make a serious convincing case that they improve the performance of sound reproduction systems. Given the time that has elapsed, the number of people making money from them, and the prices charged for some of them, I presume that they simply can't. Whether or not they sound different to some people under some circumstances hardly begins to demonstrate that they sound better and certainly not to all people in most or all circumstances. Therefore no matter which ones you buy or how much you pay, you have at best, a hit or miss chance of getting anything of value for your money. I know they'll have to do far better to have a chance of geting any of mine.
This is of course my point as well. I can't say I've listened to many cables. When I first heard a MIT cable (the one with a box attached) for a $100.00 I did indeed notice a very clear audible difference than whatever the other wire was(cheap though). SO the salesman stands there and says "see how different speaker wires DO in fact make a very noticeable difference." And the salesman was not lying they were different. Better? no, worse in fact. The sound was muddied up rolled off and dulled down. Presumably some sort of resistor is in that box.

I'm not saying some people would not find that better, if perhaps you own the brightest speaker in the brightest room on earth this cable might help.

But $100.00 for "MIGHT" is too much. Then again most places selling cables give you a 30 day full money back gaurantee which surprised me. If they measure differently in the audible spectrum, then maybe given enough time one will notice a difference on some recording or on some instruments. Maybe not, but a 30 day gaurantee what the hell costs you nothing.