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Audiophiles Can't Differentiate Audio Signals Sent Through Copper, Banana, and Mud in Blind Test (www.headphonesty.com)
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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

I bought and installed Monster cables for my fairly high end (Not audiophile) HiFi setup in the 80s. Oxygen free copper yada yada. It's true that they are fat conductors (good), very flexible sheathing (good), transparent (cool), but I could have saved a bunch by using fat plain electrical cables.