Many years ago, a guy I used to know walked into an audiophile-esque high end stereo store to look at some home stereo gear. An expert soon sought him out. When the shopper asked about a certain brand of speakers, the aural guru responded with, "We've got Bose." To add a little confusion, the audio Mensa member then blurted, "400 watts into 2 Ohms mono. I do a lot of editing."
 
Just because someone can string words together that sort of sound like something, does not mean that there is any intelligent intent.

Karyn
Talking of stringing words together.... 

From strings, to cable, to words, to brassiere ... I'm getting totally confused now!

I get mine tangled up all the time. I have to keep remembering to feel my words to see if they're too hot. 
 
Usually, I have someone pick up a paragraph and see if they burst into flames. Oddly enough, some consider that to be a bad thing. 

Standard instrument cables use the braided "shield" as the signal ground. Winding them up and unwinding them will make this shield become loose and the cable will become microphonic. You can hear it if the cable is on a hard surface like a stage and you shake it. When they get like that throw them in the garbage because they are unfixable.
 
The little tidbit about about feeling connectors to see if they're hot sounds funny but might save you a lot of money in certain situations. I've repaired many 100w Marshall heads and some types are prone to melt down at the impedance selector. On the early Marshall's the selector is a small dongle that you plug in. It's just a piece of metal bent into a U shape and moulded into a plastic handle. These little plugs can get loose and form a high resistance connection that stresses the output transformer, kills your tone and gets HOT, real hot. I've seen them melt.
 
So that's a small bit of reality into a mostly humourous discussion on cables. I've tried a lot of them from $10 to $200 each and have come away with very little in the way of knowledge. What I can say for sure is that coiled cables kill high end and using a huge fat cable between your bass amp and cab will improve your sound.
 
For recording my guitar I use a cable from Evidence audio. It has two solid conductors for signal and a braided shield for noise. It is only for recording because it won't lay flat and likely has a short life because of the solid conductors. John Mayer and David Gilmour are endorsers but they can afford to replace them while gigging.

UbiquitousBubba
Many years ago, a guy I used to know walked into an audiophile-esque high end stereo store to look at some home stereo gear. An expert soon sought him out. When the shopper asked about a certain brand of speakers, the aural guru responded with, "We've got Bose." To add a little confusion, the audio Mensa member then blurted, "400 watts into 2 Ohms mono. I do a lot of editing."
 
Just because someone can string words together that sort of sound like something, does not mean that there is any intelligent intent.

In the past with Bose 901 speakers many of us called them harmonic distortion generators. I have no respect for anything Bose. 

craigb

John

UbiquitousBubba
Many years ago, a guy I used to know walked into an audiophile-esque high end stereo store to look at some home stereo gear. An expert soon sought him out. When the shopper asked about a certain brand of speakers, the aural guru responded with, "We've got Bose." To add a little confusion, the audio Mensa member then blurted, "400 watts into 2 Ohms mono. I do a lot of editing."
 
Just because someone can string words together that sort of sound like something, does not mean that there is any intelligent intent.

In the past with Bose 901 speakers many of us called them harmonic distortion generators. I have no respect for anything Bose. 

Well, you need to use them only with Monster cables made from unobtainium, where all the oxygen has been removed and replaced with purple haze.  Oh yeah, and definitely make sure that you ONLY let your signal go in the direction of the poorly stuck arrows on the outside of the cable.  If you do all that, and maybe take some recreational drugs, the Bose gear can sound ok. 

Right, Monster cables, I knew I forgot something! That changes everything!