04-Feb-2016, 02:19
IME cables rarely/never make huge differences, the differences can however be hugely worthwile/valuable. 
How much value one attaches to these differences differs from person to person and the "phase" one is in in building or optimizing his system. Smaller improvements, I think, are more worthwile and valuable to those who feel they have done the absolute best they can within reasonable limits (one such limit is often a financial one for those passionates willing to go really far) and are thus nearing an asymptote/end-station. In other words those searching for the last few percents of reasonably attainable performance. For these people a cable for example can also make or break a system, like when a system is really balanced this balance can be a fine line easily pushed over to the wrong side. This I think also explains why many people (I'm guilty of this myself as well I suppose) describe changes in a way that makes that makes them look bigger than they objectively are, or are/would be to any "outsider" not intimately familiar with the system.
How much value one attaches to these differences differs from person to person and the "phase" one is in in building or optimizing his system. Smaller improvements, I think, are more worthwile and valuable to those who feel they have done the absolute best they can within reasonable limits (one such limit is often a financial one for those passionates willing to go really far) and are thus nearing an asymptote/end-station. In other words those searching for the last few percents of reasonably attainable performance. For these people a cable for example can also make or break a system, like when a system is really balanced this balance can be a fine line easily pushed over to the wrong side. This I think also explains why many people (I'm guilty of this myself as well I suppose) describe changes in a way that makes that makes them look bigger than they objectively are, or are/would be to any "outsider" not intimately familiar with the system.
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