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why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable

I have tried expensive cables and one's moderately priced. I would say there were some differences but I can't actually say the expensive cables were better. IMHO I believe a lot of people buy expensive cables because they don't actual trust their ears and are afraid of making a mistake. They figure the expensive cables are better for the fact they cost more. If you have a difference of opinion or share the same thoughts, I would like to hear about it.
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ieales
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Some might find this Cable Snake Oil Antidote interesting with respect to LRC, the signal and the system.

Cables affect the sound and the effect is system dependent.

Another's opinion on a cable in a vastly different system may not be valid.
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ieales
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If it all sounded the same, we'd have stopped with Edison's phonograph. Reductio ad absurdum.

The salient point is that everything interacts. To deny otherwise is counterintuitive. Some are more sensitive to some interactions than others. 

Some need to [and can afford to] drive the newest/flashiest/everything-est and others are content to just have really good sound.

Soto voce:
The problems here are "10,000 posters" who prattle on repeatedly with no substantiated examples or proof and those who steadfastly maintain "does not happen with my level of equipment"

I wish this forum had a banish flag so "10,000 posters" could neither read or respond for 30 days after a given number of serious posters give them a thumbs-down.

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