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?
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Sorry but we are all friends here and we argue about audio....

There is not so much thiefs, and not so much dishonest people here, even when we call them so, without proof, on the basis of opinion divergence only...

I call that stupidity.... I apologize if this definition seems to you erroneous...

Anyway i wish you good luck in your crusade against cable sellers..... :)

But please refrain yourself with cable consumers....

« Only truth dont respect borders»- Groucho Marx

« Are you the truth? » -a famous roman governor in Judea

«  My dear, when even Christ stay silent, i better be myself»- Groucho Marx
Calling other names is not successful...

Proclamation are for pope or clown...

Sorry.....

By the way Einstein put the whole thing about stupidity with too few words...

Stupidity is finite, but the persistance with stupidity can be without end.....

i prefer the way of Groucho Marx :

« Stupidity is a vocation»

« Stupid people harm others even at the cost of harming themselves» Anonymus
Imagine all these controversies about cable geometry....

Those who experiment with it.... And others who do not....

My ears/brain tell me that except for experimenting with it, it is not possible to develop a sound opinion...

It is like with my last  homemade "creation" the " The twin Fans combing sound" all will laught without even knowing anything, i will smile with my low cost reverse engineering tweak, not of a cable, but a room enhancer.....

« Those who speak sometimes know, those who stay silent always learn in all case » - Groucho Marx
Another cables thread..... :)

I am amazed by the way most people think they will solve the upgrading S.Q. problem...

Any upgrade is welcome the more costly the better, cables, amplifiers, dac, speakers, etc except the most important thing to take care of...

The most important factors to take care of are the acoustical, the electrical, and the mechanical embeddings...NO other one....Certainly not buying something because of frustration or unsatifaction by way of a solution... No new electronic design in dac and amplifier or even speakers, will  compensate for a bad or inexistant controls of these embeddings.... I know that firsthand....If you want to upgrade wait till these controls embeddings are rightfully implemented...Money dont necessarily buy Hi-FI, this is a costly myth....Listening experiments  will give you  Hi-Fi.... 

Nobody will acuse me of repeating myself now, with all these tedious discussions about cables differences....MIssing the essential audio problem and taking for target a secondary one....

i must repeat myself for the benefit of newcomers.... Newcomers dont buy anything, think and experiment with what you have first.....

My best to all.....

P.S. yes cables sound different, but are mostly overvalued in all ways....The upgrading of the embeddings may cost peanuts for those who try....Newcomers be warned....