Nice. [no sarcasm]
So how long did you use them before returning all of them for a refund?
The problem is you didn't give enough time to settle-in (burn-in). You have a lot of high purity solid PSS silver contents there. They take real long time to settle-in. You should have experienced very harsh / bright sound out of the system with those cables but you have mentioned nothing about it. So this tells me two things.
1). There is a down-grade in sound (due to not broken-in) but you claimed "I heard no difference" which tells me you are not sensitive to what you hear. No pun intended. I'm just saying this in general. If a person can't even tell the degraded sound, the culprit is the hearing of the person.
2). You did not complete the burn-in. Since the 30 day return policy runs out you tried it for a few weeks and since you felt no sound improvement you returned them all and now you claim they make no difference. This is quite of ignorance.
Incorrect. There are sonic differences, huge. The sound changes depending on how soon the data reaches from point A to B. Slight difference in timing causes big difference in audio. As mentioned in my post above, you did not give enough time to burn-in as those cables require long time of burnin before getting noticeable results.
Also, being musicians doesn't mean be end all. Not all musicians have the same hearing, not to mention, their hearing problems just like others. You gotta go by the people with good hearing and those that are trained.
It has already been widely covered that there is huge (not small ) difference in the location of the musical instruments played. Increased dynamic response, detail pops, etc etc etc. The proof is in the hearing. Nothing better than hands-on experience instead of just sitting around and guessing without trying out the cable and properly settle-in...
I'll wait for your reply... Next.
It's $1200 for the Angel cable. $200 for Sydney.
It's $200 for the A2 speakers not $300. lol..
No. Are you crazy? Why should I? I love the cable, not only because they look good and gives me opportunity to wax and polish, but they do deliver in better sound as stated above.
Going passive is an old fashion. Active is the better solution. A lot of audiophiles jumpship to Active for better SQ. Going passive, like your setup for example, you still get some data loss due to too many connections going in the chain. .