I'm not sure it helps with a questionable upgrade that the believers champion it religiously. If you've bought in, you're bound to defend it. There's no scientific basis behind Shunyata cables. This is a Meridian forum, Bob Stuart answered the question during a factory visit for Hitchhikers, it's not significant. Their products don't use it.

I'm not sure manners have changed on the forum, the mods used to be quite "strict" but the've gone now.

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