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Cable Costs Relative to System

Since making a spread sheet with my audio system prices, I have been thinking(shocked) about my total investment in cables. My total system retails at $67,000 (Digital and analog front ends included). I purchased all of it here on Audiogon so my investment is about 50%. Of that I have about 10% invested in interconnects and cables and another 10% in Power Cables (Shunyata Hydra included). That's $13,000 worth of wire. I'm starting to question whether it might be more effective to put some of this budget into acitve components. It would take forever to listen to all possible combinations, but would like to hear others experiences with relatively high end systems and cable selection. It would seem to me that the point of diminishing returns would be reached sooner with cables than with speakers and amps. Do most of you follow the 10% "rule" for cabling? How do PCs fit into this rule? Are there any super bargain cables capable of keeping up with highly resolving electronics?
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alwyn
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My system is in excess of $100,000 and the interconnects that I now use all Belden 1800f balanced. I have these as bi amp cables and use them on such components as M Levinson preamps 326s and amps 2 dual mono cd/sacd player Esoteric and thats just the audio side.I did use high priced cables but found when I wanted to change the type of termination on my cables that I could buy these Belden cables at a fraction of the price,so I purchsed the cables required and listened to the music there was no difference in sound at all.All those years I had been throwing my money away.Spend on components its those that make the difference not the cables.
Anyone interested look up prices on bluejeanscables.com you will be in for a suprise
alwyn
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Digital cables,I compared a kimber digital cable costing in the UK.£570 with a cable from bluejeans costing $40 (£20) I connected both up to a levinson dac with two inputs so I could do a/b tests there was not the slightest difference in them,only the price.Cables are an absolute rip off.
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