I knew because I changed them, I'd welcome a test, the difference was quite dramatic. Remember the Epic has more silver, which is a better conductor than copper.
I highly doubt a fuse would make any difference, I have a Mark Grant mains cable, it made no audible difference at all.
I'm also running Mark Grant G2000HD interconnects, I originally had his LV61, I can safely say this change made a huge difference, I mean massive, like I changed amp or something.
You strongly implied it, see the above ^
Also with regards to the above, as I've already stated, if you take a speaker or amp apart, have a look at what has been used to construct it.
You'll never see all that wonder cable you believe in. It'll be basic copper and solder, no silver or any magic infused stuff.
So even if it was true, it's completely pointless because the basic copper in your speakers and amps would make the magic cable in between, completely pointless.
I never mentioned a change in tonality at all.
Have you actually listened for yourself with reasonably high end kit and tried different cables? If not then you aren't really qualified to comment.
Well, it doesn't really work like that. You aren't qualified to to comment simply because you believe you've heard a difference.
Human perception is a fickle thing, just because you've listened to high end "kit" (what does that actually mean?).
Until YOU sit a double blind test and can tell the difference, then you are not qualified to maintain your claims.
This is how it works.
Also HDMI cables don't make a difference as they are digital, speaker outputs are analogue and the cable can have an effect on things.
HDMI cables aren't digital, they are analogue, the signal sent isn't digital either, it's analogue.
What IS digital is how the signal is read and transmitted.
The reason there isn't a difference isn't because the process is digital, it's simply because that's how it works.
If you look at things like VGA or Scart. A "High Quality" VGA or Scart cable won't improve image quality, it's just that a bad cable will degrade the quality.
The process of degradation is quite similar between, say HDMI and VGA it's just that the degradation is displayed differently because of the way the standards work differently, and one processes in digital and the other in analog.
A bad VGA cable could result in bad colour data, for example, making the colours off, or the sharpness, resulting in a fuzzy image.
With HDMI you'll get artefacts, image break up, image blocking and eventually no image, the "it's digital, it works or it doesn't" isn't exactly how it's portrayed, what it really means is that the image will be perfect (as it was sent) or it'll be noticeably broken in some way.
Possibly the reason I heard a big improvement moving from LV61 interconnects to G1000HD is the fact that the LV61 cable is measurably different, I read somewhere it was a higher capacitance.
You think magic interconnects make increase quality too? OH LAWD.
The same applies to those too, but to a lesser extent (as in, they can deal with lesser thickness/gauge as they aren't being used to drive something like a speaker).
