Honestly man, if you are going to be condescending, you should probably read the post you are talking about. Here is the post in question for others just reading the convo here:
So just to break down all of the misunderstandings that are required to ask what you just did.
- HE1 is an electrostatic headphone with an attached cable and a proprietary amp. Testing a different headphone cable would require desoldering the current one from the headphone and soldering on a new one assuming you were even able to find another of the specific connector used to hook up to the amp.
- The HE1 (and most electrostatic headphones) is an inherently balanced design. Single ended drive of the cans would require disconnecting a stator.
- Impedance is a fairly meaningless stat for an electrostatic headphones. Electro static headphones act far closer to capacitors than they do to resistors and by nature of design have impedance that fluctuates wildly with frequency. While you will often see stax specifically report impedance at 10kHz, there is a lot of argument of if this specific stat even matters at all due to the fact that estats dont even always have the same shape of impedance curve meaning that its not actually a comparable figure between most cans. For cables in such reactive systems the inductance and capacitance is far far far more important than just the plain resistance (though they are all loosely related).
- Assuming you did realize this was talking about interconnects between the amp and the dac, the impedance of an interconnect specifically is unlikely to have measurable impact on the system due to the input impedance of most amps being well north of 10kohm (input impedance of the HDV820 is 20kohm for example). Instead things like cable geometry (especially on balanced cables) and shielded vs unshielded are much more likely to have measurable impacts in common mode noise rejection and EMI susceptibility.
Questioning results and experience is fine. Id even so go far as to say its important. Acting as you did while not even taking a cursory introspecting to see if you are even on the same topic as others is a different story.
Now lets actually get to your comment.
What empirical evidence do you wish to show to disprove someone’s experiences? Cable to cable will have measurably different traits, so how to you propose to prove an audibility threshold for all of them?
You have not even once in this entire discussion entertained the idea that cables may sound different. That is why the statement was made. You are asking others to be open minded while you are not.
This is objectively false. Just go read a USB, ethernet, or any other digital cable standard. Impedance is an extremely important factor for them, but its only a very small part of the picture. What even lead you to believe that impedance was all that matters?
Case in point on not practicing what you preach. If you want to have an open an valuable discussion you must be openminded as well. Until that happens, as was said before, there is no real value to anyone in continuing the discussion.