I am sick of cables

"most expensive cables are not necessarily better." Which means that sometimes they may be! I do agree.

I agree that some of the exotic materials and construction involved in some of the high price cables serve as marketing hype. Still, there are extra costs involved here, now, as to whether those extra costs are reflected in the price. This is where I have a problem. The marketing hype and reported superiority creates a buzz which ensures sales at what I believe are greatly inflated prices. I mean, 1m cables that retail for 2500k, 4k and above, that seems crazy to me (doesn't mean I wouldn't buy them if I had the money)! That old saying, "what the market will bear" certainly holds true here. Can you imagine if the wealthy audiophile suddenly stopped buying these cables, I'm sure they would beome much more affordable. Look at the cost of living in NYC.

I would like to see some investigative reports into the lifestyle of some of these cable purveyors. Some of them may be living in a similar style to the 'geniuses' on Wall St. On the other hand, perhaps they're not, in which case it would seem they are charging a reasonable amount. And then, it could also be they make a huge profit on very small margin, not wealthy but living very comfortably with very little effort. I bet there are cable purveyors that fit into each of these categories.

Having said that, I would like to hear the Tara Zeros, vacuum sealed cable, the best dialectec is no dialectic, and shielded as well. I wonder how much profit margin here?

In regard to people hearing differences in a false double blind test.

There is no doubt the placebo effect affects some people some of the time. However, in the long term, those taking the placebo may suffer needlessly, just as the guy listening to the inferior cable will. Another reason double blind testing doesn't work in audio is, what constitutes an objectively agreed upon sonic preference amongst the experimental group. It is impossible to ojectively quantify changes to a subjectively defined model. We only have our sonic preferences to judge by, the sound of live music is not reproducable on audio systems to this point. Until it is, we cannote have an objective experimental group (audio system).

I've never understood the objective argument amongst audiophiles, empirical evidence, even if subjective and anecdotal, is much more valuable to me. If someone prefers cable A to cable B, who am I to say he doesn't hear cable A as preferable. Cable A may be more or less expensive, either way, it doesn't involve me, why should I care.

Objectivity and/or measurements only tell some of the story, often, we don't even know how measurements correlate to certain sonic attributes.

In the end, I guess it shouldn't matter to us whether someone prefers ultra expensive or inexpensive cables, whatever floats their boat makes them happy, that should be enough.