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Are audiophiles still out of their minds?

I've been in this hobby for 30 years and owned many gears throughout the years, but never that many cables.  I know cables can make a difference in sound quality of your system, but never dramatic like changing speakers, amplifiers, or even more importantly room treatment. Yes, I've evaluated many vaunted cables at dealers and at home over the years, but never heard dramatic effect that I would plunk $5000 for a cable. The most I've ever spent was $2700 for pair of speaker cables, and I kinda regret it to this day.  So when I see cable manufacturers charging 5 figures for their latest and "greatest" speaker cables, PC, and ICs, I have to ask myself who buys this stuff. Why would you buy a $10k+ cable, when there are so many great speakers, amplifiers, DACs for that kind of money, or room treatment that would have greater effect on your systems sound?  May be I'm getting ornery with age, like the water boy says in Adam Sandler's movie.
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analogluvr
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Geoffkait if you think those things are similar your not as smart as I gave you credit for. 

And i I don't give you any credit, sorry....
analogluvr
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If an electrician told me that I would tell him to give me some of what he has been smoking. 
analogluvr
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It's not nearly as bad as alcohol or many other legal, more socially accepted things. I actually don't endulge but as with cables, there is a ton of misinformation out there. 😳
analogluvr
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Geoff I quoted your statement word for word....  How is that putting words in your mouth??
analogluvr
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I love this one by Geoff,

Two, your contention that blind tests reveal that all expensive cables are no better than cheap cables is either your own puffery and untrue or if you have been involved in a blind test, which BTW I actually doubt, that produced negative results I suggest it is simply an outlier and can be thrown out.

Basically if if your test results aren't what I want them to be they are "an outlier" and can be thrown out. Too bad that doesn't  work in court🙄
And by the way drac I don't think you should exclude coat hangers from your statement. They probably sound better than some 2k cables. 

analogluvr
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Then the proper statement would be" you've misunderstood what I meant"
not
"l don't appreciate having words put in my mouth"
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analogluvr
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Oh god Geoff, go sell a bag of rocks or something.
That is called paraphrasing, you did say it, Hel-looo!

Do you know what irony means?
The definition is Geoffkait whining about someone mischaracterizing something he's said, when he basically makes a career out of doing that to people he disagrees with.....

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