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A couple things:
You wouldn't happen to think that changing the speaker position would have anything to do with the sound? My point before was that from an empirical standpoint, you cannot claim that the change is due to the "burning in" of the cable when so many other factors also changed.
Claiming you are immune to the placebo effect is a nice thought. Possibly you are, but your example is actually doing you no favors. The outputs of cd/dvda/sacd are measureably different, but not hearing a difference could mean that the differences don't really matter, or that you are feeling the nocebo effect (a buzzword for the opposite of placebo, those psychologists are so creative).
By the DBS, I'm assuming you're referring to the cables with batteries to keep a "constant potential" or some such nonsense? Yeah, that was a funny product.
I have no problem with the pursuit of audio perfection, but audio elitism rubs me the wrong way. Especially when companies make their living by scamming people out of their hard earned money by selling snake oil, psychoacoustic products (*cough* $1000 transparent cable being made with a total of $5 in parts *cough*). Not that you are, but by listing the prices with your gear, you give the appearance of being one of those audiophiles that is trying to win a penis size contest by having the bigger/better/more esoteric system. Cooked cables will fit right into that mindset.
Esoteric cable companies are among the most notorious places in audio for bad science and I can find quite a few audio engineers to cite for this. The way that such companies would be able to validate themselves would be through double blind testing on large sample sizes (the only way to truly be rid of psychoacoustic effects), but nearly all are reluctant to do so.
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