Inflated prices in audio

@dill 
LOL - sticky keyboard on my appllllleee maaac - that not only would have been in business a long time - but also they's be a wealthy company had they sold it for about £2500 in large numbers over that time period.

@mike_in_nc and @roberjerman may well have hit the nail on the head. 


I must say that I hate cables with a passion - but that may be just because my own amp - LAvardin IT - tends to like very simple cables like DNM or Nordost Flat (the most basic). I have tried others (ie Nordost Heimdall 2) but keep coming back to the DNM cables. I make that point at the outset to set out my own prejudice as I am sure many will say that exorbitant cable prices are justified (especially in the context of their own systems). My pre-amble is set out because I think cables really have taken a life of their own in the last 20 years. I appreciate some of this reflects research - but the high end electronics in the past did not lack research costs. 

I make a speculation, but could it be that the big companies who do the investment don't tend to concentrate as much an audio and as such the small one man bands try to recuperate everything on a single/few sales?

@clearthink I don't like cables because there are just too damn many - I have tried quite a few (as per my post) and having gone in circles come back to my DNM cables which are as cheap as chips but work very well with my amp/system (which actually love DNM cables). 

People go on about the r&d in cables - well how about the R&D into creating the CD player/Blue Ray/ OLED TV's - now that's research. 

Please note my prejudice is system specific and I am sure that some systems do favour certain cables, and the further caveat that from the Vetere cables I have used they are much better than Lavardins' own interconnects. I just get slightly sick of the claims over cables - that's all