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My audio interest is pretty much limited to headphones these days. While my system isn't state of the art, it isn't bad either. I'm using a Woo Audio WA2 and Byerdynamic T1s, with a Jolida JD100 as a source.
I use a .5m silver cable between the cd player and the headphone amp. It has noticeably better sound than the cheap copper cable that it replaced. There was a break in period; but with 8 vacuum tubes, some older Blackgate capacitors, and newer headphones, I'm not sure I'd attribute the break in to cables.
To my ear, there is a large difference between $5 cables and $100 ones. Any difference between $100 cable and $1000 ones is inaudible to me.
I'll buy tube break in, as well as capacitor and headphones. Cable break in ought to be measurable with a signal generator and an oscilliscope. I haven't seen that demonstrated.
The bottom line, however, is that the only opinion that matters is your own. I'm infatuated with the sound quality that I get on my headphone system, it really doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.
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