well, this is very interesting. it's amazing how much disinformation
is out there. because i noticed an improvement in the sound the guy i
borrowed the cables from was able to convince me that what i was using
was totally inferior. i probably do just need to chack the connections
again and make sure everything is tight and uncorroded. truth be
known, after i hooked the old cables back in they seemed to sound
better to me than they had. i should have suspected at the time i
might have had a bad connection or something like that. one thing i
noticed about those more expensive connectors was they have very
heavily plated with gold and they ofcourse are much heavier guage
cable. add the strain relief coils and all that stuff and they are
quite impressive but i dont go for the idea of spending big bucks on a
false premise.

thanks for the advice!