Why pay so much?

If AudioQuest charged $350 for their Dragon Zero and Bass which would be 100% fair, I might buy it. Some would call me ridiculous considering I could get the same audio fidelity from $1 a foot belden. Paying 1,000% premium for something that probably doesn’t mean anything. But I’m OCD, and I like the idea that I have something high quality in my system. But to tell you the truth. Belden audio and video wires is my thing. Even if I wanted "better", I couldn’t find it, and would keep the Belden. And it makes sense they would be the best. They’re a $3 billion dollar company that sells their wire to NASA and all of the commercial wiring industry; the stuff that people record and operate the media I see and hear with. It makes sense that a scientific company would make the best wiring as well as charging $1 a foot; as the no nonsense company probably would have the best anyways.
I don’t go by price tag. I trust the $3 billion dollar company with hundreds of millions of dollars in research an development. Not the company that makes a few million dollars a year selling components they hand made down by the river in a van.

Have you ever listened to a $100. interconnect in a high performance system, then listened to a $2000. interconnect in the same system.

You will hear the difference.  When  building a system, everything matters as has often been stated here over and over.

I do';t know what stated this stratospheric pricing of cables many years ago BUT the higher end ones do make a noticeable difference. especially if the rest of your equipment is at a similar level.

I just replaced a 20 yr. old $2000.  interconnect with a $4000.interconnect and there is a big difference. There are things I never heard before the upgrade now available and all the audiophile buzz words can be used in describing the new "sound".  Worth $2000. ??  Depends on the buyers perspective and desires.

ps.  Don't justify raw costs with the selling price. If you knew the material cost of everything you bought, you would never buy anything.
Since you trust billion dollars companies blindly, have you flown on any 737 MAX jets lately? I think they are grounded for some design flaws.

You guys are really funny. Like, this is like being on the Flat Earth forums, where you see people convinced the Earth is flat. Just, it’s like a Kool Aid that’s being sipped.

Could it be that you have a passionate love for music, and it’s fun spending a lot of money to get " higher quality " speaker wires and better sound?

And that in actuality, you want so bad to believe that music can get more and more Accurate each year, that it’s just a never ending cycle of upgrading to get as close to the real thing as possible?

I get it. Upgrading speakers, audio cables and power wire, etc, processors and power conditioners and etc?

It’s a hobby. It’s something to do and you can spend hours fantasizing about new equipment.

I could probably hook up some Audioquest And MTI wiring, and "hear" a difference. I could probably sip the kool aid and think something is better. In many times in life, when there’s a will there’s a way. I assume though if you got me double blind tested, I wouldn’t be able to distinguish the fidelity though.

Like Scientology, the Flat Earth cult, etc, a good part of people just wants to break people free of placebo and incorrect stuff, because it’s frustration.

I hope one day you guys get some courage to do a truly 100% no possible error of scientific investigation in to this, and learn a lesson about life.

I kind of went through this right away when I entered the hobby, but I pretty quickly caught on to the big picture of the audio and video world.

Some people are faster than others to learning things like this in life.

It’s an important lesson to learn.

Good luck guys!

I said my peace, and I respect all of you.

Figure it out,

I’ll probably be done harassing you guys now.  

Burn away those audio cables so they break in well!

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- Andy

I hereby declare you almost ready for standup. 

I was about to makea new topic dealing with this idea of spending$$$$$$$ on supposedly *new super high tech pure blahblahblah~~~ speaker/cable connects...I see funaudio has stated his idea very clean and has cleanly exposed the fraud. which brings me to My latest researchm,,as you guys know i try to be on
~~~The Cutting edge~~~ of all tweaks/mods..my mother was german, my great great great grandfather  was Horace Bushnell, america's greatest thinker,,and so i have  this knack at looking at all angles, figuring out what is best of the best. Here goes what i just discovered this morning,,so it is indeed
~~~~~~~~~~~~~BREAKING NEWS FLASH~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pure 100% copper RCA male and RCA female jack ends can be purchased off ebay. 
Thats step one in my $100 connects that will blow away any and every $50,000 interconnects in a  shootout,  ,.OK you have the RCA connects, now purcahse STERLING SILVER  (a  cheaper route vs pure silver) say 1.5mm thickness half round (1/2 round is cheaper vs round) connect the 1.5 MM 1/2 round sterling silver to each male rca connect,,,now replace your 2 cent RCA gold color stereo female jack plug with PURE COPPER RCA female jack,,,yeah look at your $50K amp, jadis, Mac, Krell etc ARC, etc etc ETC,,all have those 2 cent gold color trash jacks, including Jadis's 500 monos which are $50K + retail...ohh Jadis how could you..
Now  for speaker wire, use same sterling silver, 1.5 MM thickness or wrap 2 strands together for extra transition of electron flow. 
There you have it,,,all can be done for under $500 and can shoot out any and all super high end cables/speaker wires in a  NY minute.  Now i need to figure if the 1/2 round is like a  1/5MM cut in half,,maybe better spend tyhe extra few bucks and get the FULL ROUND, = more condunctance. 
The Tweak Guy
who won;t lead you astray.