I just ran across this topic by chance. I find it very interesting and certainly an interesting approach even if not following the original design to the last nuance.

I have strong reservations about much about what has been said. It seems we all want to reproduce the 'original' sound (or video) and ensure the best fidelity possible in the process.

Well, if a musician is in a studio singing into a $1000 mic and that signal goes through a cable (not like an MIT or Transparent, but unbalanced coax) so many feet to a recording console, how do we reproduce that as close as possible?

I mean all those elements must affect the signal in some way that is vastly different that what the signal encounters leaving a CD player until it is mechanically reproduced in our listening room. Why think only speaker cables make such a difference?

The recording engineer is also listening through quality headphones or speakers in an environment that is different than any of ours.

Through evolving technology and engineering we can receive excellent sound in our listening room. Not 'faithfully' reproducing the original signal, but certainly close enough to enjoy what we hear even if it not the same as siting in a recording studio only 10 feet away from the performer, or in a high end theater during a live performance (the best reference for training our ears).

In the end, all our impressions whether collective or individual are based on experience and the accuracy of our senses not to mention the quality of our loudspeakers and just as important, the acoustic properties of our room.

Playing around with different 'quality' wire may have some effect, those I suspect it is marginal to such a small degree that trying to split hairs between which is better is an exercise in futility. To be honest I've done it myself at high end dealers, being too cheap to spend more than a $100 a pair of wires, only to find a pair I could put together myself using soft KnuKoncepz wire (wrong spelling methinks) because they have more strands and smaller profile compared with more popular wire for the same gauge and much greater flexibility. These cables do offend some audiophile because they are further from the concept of 8 gauge battery cables.

Maybe some you have such sensitive and acoustically defining components that changing out speaker cables actually makes a notable difference. I am not saying that is not the case, but for me really stretches the point that any difference can be easily quantified as better or worse. Like whip cream on top of a sundae, I think the topping dissolves into something rather undefinable over a relatively short time. Just my opinion, which is largely based on personal experience which I admit may be lacking. Plus, doing some design on cables in the aerospace industry which really did have to perform 'in the clouds'.