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If you look in the database we have all these categories:We have tests on this site which show that competently designed DACs sound the same but that there are many DACs, including some (previously) well thought of named DACs, on the market which apparently are not competently designed and they sound not only different but worse.
There are at least a couple of cable tests on this site:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...-high-end-usb-cables-make-a-difference.11272/
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...sis-plus-oval-digital-xlr-cable-review.11271/
Like DACs it is surely possible that cables sound different because of the competency of their design so I would suggest it is still necessary to test cables to find the good ones.
I've attached the paper @solderdude referenced. It's a strange one that leaves me with more questions than answers. No reference to blind testing.
As long as we're going down this route I would recommend the equally strange chapter on speaker cables in (2019) Philip Newell & Keath Holland - Loudspeakers for Music Recording and Reproduction, 2nd ed., Chapter 6 "Amplifiers and Loudspeaker Cables - A General Review". I think there is some reference to blind testing, but only in an off-hand way.
Philip Giddings' Audio Systems Design and Installation is a much more serious book on electrical design and has information on cables throughout, including a dedicated chapter somewhere in the middle of the book (I don't have it on hand). No reference to blind testing.
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