that's why i said some ppl (including me as well) upgrade cables due to psychological effect, better cables = better sound??
if u can hear the differences, then how do u judge wether it is better or worse?

May I ask something.....do you guys who say no difference between cables actually do try out different cables or you just pickup what others just said. By trying different cables here doesn't mean you listen to a song or two with a cable, switch and listen again and expect to hear a subtle difference. What I mean by trying out is you really into it. You take your time without prejudice, without hope and without expectation. Until you have this kind of passion, you can't say you have tried different cables and they make no difference

They said....thou shalt know thyself. I said....thou shalt know thycables to know thyself

i am semi deaf due on my left ear due to too much nagging...from wifey

during the blind test last time, they are 10-12 hi-fi kaki there...all say no difference...

woh..... war is brewing.. be careful guys

those 10-12 people also semi deaf?

Analogue signals can easily be affected by surrounding noise and interference. So, at least speaker cables with better built quality, proper insulation and material should contribute to better shielding and thus could produce cleaner sound. So it's not about improving the sound from the source, but protecting the sound from unwanted noise. So bad quality cables could add a lot of noise. The copper itself can be oxidized faster if it was not properly protected, but we need an electrical engineer to explain the effects.
My 2 sen.

An electric engineer will said BS 
he will tell you cable only carry electricity and nothing else, it WON"T improve/change/alter or make you music "danceable" (or is it the cable itself (p.s. pls refer to the Pear cable review  )

"Eeee.e.e.eeeee." sound..
no war la... im too old for that

Analogue signals can easily be affected by surrounding noise and interference. So, at least speaker cables with better built quality, proper insulation and material should contribute to better shielding and thus could produce cleaner sound. So it's not about improving the sound from the source, but protecting the sound from unwanted noise. So bad quality cables could add a lot of noise. The copper itself can be oxidized faster if it was not properly protected, but we need an electrical engineer to explain the effects.

No wonder....they are all head bangers?
Totally agree with u bro...despite the difference opinion why go to war when we can make love
Agree with u on the analog interconnect bro but have to disagree a bit on speaker cables.

Unlike analog interconnect, speaker cables are driven at low impedance (4-8 ohm) and high current. So they are basically immune to EMI and RFI interference so shielding is not really necessary. Having said that, I still prefer shielded speaker cables

The issue with speaker cables is more to resistance. So basic idea, the bigger the cable usually the better....less resistance. Material use also will give different resistance. Anyway oxidize copper will make it dull for sure.

I never tried elite cables like dato mypw but for what I have experience so far....speaker cables do have their own sweet "G spot"

One of the big problems as cable conductor size increases, is how to keep the inductance low. This is vital to reduce cable losses and prevent inaccuracies in the signal transfer process, i.e. distortion.

The normal way to do this is to use a number of individually insulated conductors within the cable construction. This method is utilised to great effect in the design of our Genesis Silver Spiral loudspeaker cables. However, this results in a product that has a very high quality sound performance, but is expensive to manufacture and can be difficult to terminate.

To take advantage of this design ethos, but in a more conventional format, X-TUBE forms the conductor in the shape of a tube with an inner aircore. This has the same effect as using multiple insulated conductors and ensures that high frequencies are transmitted cleanly, with the added benefit of ease of termination. This unique tubular conductor geometry also provides lower flux density within the conductors, which gives improved transparency to the sound.

THE SIGNAL

1.) At low frequencies both X-TUBE™ and conventional stranded/solid core speaker cable convey signals in a linear way. This is represented by the uniform green colour of the strands shown in the two diagrams above.

2.) At higher frequencies X-TUBE retains a near-linear signal transfer, whereas the conventional stranded/solid core cable fails to efficiently conduct higher frequencies uniformly across the entire conductor area. The diagram shows excess current density at the periphery (designated in red) and rapidly deteriorating current density (green through to white) towards the centre of the conductor.

The effect of this is to reduce the actual cross-sectional area of the cable at 15kHz to less than 75% of that at low frequencies. The result is induced distortion and a compromise in the performance of the cable.

X-TUBE with Aircore™ technology exhibits much lower self-inductance and is therefore less affected by this problem. The use of an innovative Polyethylene aircore enables a reduction in loop inductance to levels only usually achievable by using more costly and difficult to terminate cables.

Yup, you're right Arremie. However, bigger cables will increase inductance. That's why I like QED's X-Tube technology.

Ditto for that X-Tube rules
Later wanna try XT300 or XT350 la bro when got some cash to spare. Feel something missing with SA XT now.

Analogue signals can easily be affected by surrounding noise and interference. So, at least speaker cables with better built quality, proper insulation and material should contribute to better shielding and thus could produce cleaner sound. So it's not about improving the sound from the source, but protecting the sound from unwanted noise. So bad quality cables could add a lot of noise. The copper itself can be oxidized faster if it was not properly protected, but we need an electrical engineer to explain the effects.

My 2 sen.

I hear humming sound from my speaker through my Pioneer AVR, select any input also same problem. Is it because of the cable?