He, he, back when boutique cables became the rage I use to do a dog n' pony act 'swapping out' pairs of interconnect cables with them blindfolded, but all I was doing was taking out the cheap pair, coating them with a proprietary 'space age' paste that cleaned, lubricated and sealed them and rotating them back n' forth during reinstallation, which definitely did sound better, especially with higher efficiency speakers, so of course they believed it was the boutique pair.
The truly weird part was that even after exposing the ruse, quite a few still bought the boutique ones after a blindfold test with the doped el cheapo ones that I later showed they only sounded different due to having little R-C [baffle step compensation] filters wired in-line!
Go figure! Any sane person would use the el cheapo and add an adjustable BSC filter to truly dial it into the room, etc., instead of having to swap out expensive cables.
BTW, the goop was a vaseline and hydraulic fluid blend specially formulated for NASA. No clue WRT the rest of its details or what it was developed for, but I've long since used up what little was left in the can I found in the chemicals recycle bin trying to 'clone' it and sure could have used it the other day to restore all my ancient cables.
In short, just as real estate is mostly all about location, location, location, so too electrical distribution is mostly about connection, connection, connection.
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