Speaker Cables

[Eddye]

Your mate has a point, room acoustics are very important and most of us do little to improve this, and most cable and other tweaks are likely down to the placebo effect. Still the placebo effect is proven to be very effective in battling illness. So I wonder if the placebo effect is really a bad thing?

My experience also tells me that the room acoustics, and particularly the position of the speakers in the room are critical.
In my view if one is not in a position to optimise this, swmbo and all that, there is a limit beyond which further expenditure is a waste.

Agreed. The cheapest tweak is taking a few hours to place your speakers correctly. Lots of how-to's on this to be found on the internet.