My experience is that the tech is not all mumbo jumbo. That said, in my new system I shopped for cables last and found that the prices in many cases were out of sight. I found that the cost of new cables even in the middle of most manufacturers product lines were too high as a percent of the total system price, even when discarding the old adage of percentage allocations to different parts of a system which I realize no longer holds true. That led me to believe that cables have become a good way for dealers to maintain their overall margins, particularly when putting together a system price. Brick and mortar retailers have high overhead, so that's just the way the economics work. You can see this same principle at play if you purchase "regular" av cables at Best Buy vs., say Monoprice. My solution was to shoot for established manufacturers with a good quality "story" and reputation and then find open box or used, which I did. I feel I got good value that way.
Are cables really worth their high price because of their geometry?
They’re some pricey cables that have claim to fame because of the high tech geometry used in their cables.
Many of these cables have patents on specific geometry patterns used in their cables and use this as a reason their cables sound so good. For that reason, many say the reason their cables cost so much is they’re so complex . The man hours to make a pr results in their high price. That maybe true for some cables, but I’ve seen very pricey cables using the same geometry reason that look like a thin piece of wire rapped in outer jacket no thicker than a pencil. So,Is all this geometry just another way to justify their cost or is it true science that we are paying in the end?
Many of these cables have patents on specific geometry patterns used in their cables and use this as a reason their cables sound so good. For that reason, many say the reason their cables cost so much is they’re so complex . The man hours to make a pr results in their high price. That maybe true for some cables, but I’ve seen very pricey cables using the same geometry reason that look like a thin piece of wire rapped in outer jacket no thicker than a pencil. So,Is all this geometry just another way to justify their cost or is it true science that we are paying in the end?