Spoken eloquently by a gear manufacturer highly adept at selecting appropriate headwear.
You've got your tri-corner pirate hat on today don't you?
If someone claimed that their cables were miraculous, I'd be much more likely to believe them. Miracles are by definition a nonrepeatable, unpredictable supernatural occurence. Science relies on repeatability; if your cables are miraculous, I cannot test that.
By consequence, it would be extremely difficult to manufacture miraculous cables.
Not difficult at all. No one could disprove the miraculous qualities which lie beyond the reach of test verification. And not difficult to sell either, although quite impossible to get repeatable miraculous results! Wherein lies the dichotomy.
Thanks for the thread, the clear explanations of the testing methodology and the all too easily overlooked truth that all audio recording more advanced than a mechanically recorded and reproduced gramophone 78 is essentially nothing more than a measurement of voltage fluctuation over time. Which is reason enough on its own for this thread.