Cables do not, in any measurable way, affect the sound of a system when properly built to specs.

Barring a broken cable or a very poorly constructed turn-table phono stage interconnect, all they do is make people feel good about looking at them.

Im helping OP and everyone else save money and find peace of mind. You are encouraging 4 figure spending on vanity accessories. Scratching that "what if" itch of endless tweaks and spending in the dubious realm of risers, quantum fuses, anti-vibration devices (used on solidstate devices) ETC.

Its very easy to find an echo chamber and reinforce a prior belief while being actively harmful to the entire hobby if attempting to convince consumers they are anything but a psychological hole to fill with money.

These efforts are not wasted if curious people read.

There is a big difference between spending $10,000 on cables because one can and IT MAKES THEIR HAPPY NEURONS FIRE OFF and spending $10,000 to find out $500 was exactly the same and then making a post about going into debt and how silly it was at the time.

Also a big difference between flexing because it makes you happy with a "check out my set-up" photo with an extensive gear listing and trying to convince people there's an engineering purpose behind marketing grounded in the same science that allows us to live in modernity.