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What is wrong with Audiophiles?

Well, many issues. The pursuit after uber-expensive interconnects, speaker cables, power conditioners, power cables can be rediculous. Not to mention Audiophiles who paint the outer sides of their CD's with a green marker. A few days ago I visited a local hi-fi exhibition in Israel. Two of the most impressive rooms where the YG Acoustics with an all NAGRA amplification and the Focal room. The speaker cables in the first room cost $70,000. That was also the cost of the speaker cable in the Focal room. One could buy a BMW or a Merc AMG or a Porsche for that much money. Does this make sense to you? And, lest I forget, I have an Audiophile neighbor in the building where I live. I offered him to borrow a CD of an Israeli singer that I admire. How is the quality of the recording, he asked. "average", I answered. "No, I can't listen to average recordings", he replied. I call that "Audiophilia neurosis". 
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analogluvr
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 The $70,000 cable performs much better at inducing a placebo effect in the listener.   Then the insecure audiophile can rest easy knowing he has done all that he can,, until next year when they release the $80,000 cable! 
 That’s how the dealerships get you, you need to spend 20% of your system cost on cables… What a load of who Ha! 
analogluvr
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He’s the only one not talking nonsense on here...
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