But you, as a user of cheaper gear, appear to opposed to DBT? Perhaps it's to do with aspirations, and therefore I invoke 'snobbery'....

I still don't understand the objections. The only way to prove that (say) electrically similar cables sound different is with a listening test. This doesn't require you to choose cables in a particular way, but if you knew that they were actually different you would be making your choice in an informed environment. As it is you have to sign up for a cult belief and operate in an environment ripe for unscrupulous operatives to take your money.

Paul