I didn't tell you another story from the subjective experience side
So I possess few LAT IC's. One is from some audiophile exchange which happened over 20 years ago. I was so-so satisfied with it. It seemed to get good extremes, both tight, rythmic and deep bass and extended highs, yet the timbre was not good on that one. Music with it sounded bit coldish and too 'technical' and less 'emotional' compared to few other candidates. The second one is more recent, bought through SH market. It's a model above the former. I was actually very pleased with the sound while using that one, I considered it then the best IC I have (it was the most expensive of mine too so no wonder
lol). The IC's had a different in RCA's too: the first one had heavy locking RCA's. The latter had Eichmann Bullets. In construction, the latter is bigger gauge conductor (not sure how much, possibly twice), quad instead of a twisted pair, both shielded in a similar manner.
However as I used some StarLine RCA's for some other purpose (was making digital COAX with them), I decided to experiment by changing those heavy locking RCA's with Starline RCA's, so I did. This old IC collected dust in my drawer anyway so I thought heck why not...I'm interested in a result. So what was the result from the subjective perspective? The cable improved - I expected that. What I didn't expect is that sound actually got full timbre with Starline RCA's, lost the coldness, and somehow became familiar to the more expensive LAT IC. Wow. It didn't completely feel the same but the difference got to a point when I really had to think which I preferred between the two. Like the older LAT was pronouncing the bass extension (in fact both extensions), while the newer LAT was bit gentler in the highs with bit less sibilance. But the overal difference not really big. This is what I didn't have in my bias when I expected a possible result: a possibility that connectors might be more decisive to the sound than the wire itself!
Yeah, I will blind test it one day, at least with the cables it's really simple to do it. I will report a result when I do it, only I suspect if I succeed to recognize the difference in a blind test each time, no one (or almost no one) here will believe in those results anyway