why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable

"Playing the troll card." What is done when one finds a post online that disagrees with his opinion and is incapable of intelligently countering that post with an appropriate argument.

Just mention the T word and wait to see who shows up. It’s uncanny! 😛 It’s like they have ESP.

This site is where I first heard the term ’troll’ - I made what admittedly was a controversial point - but there was no attempt to "sow discord/stir things up"- I was simply stating my opinion.

My point is be careful using the "troll" term - not everybody who says something you disagree with is trying to start a ’fight’ if you will, just putting an opinion out there.

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About Cables - I do believe (but with no experience so it really doesn't mean anything) that in a quality system, high $ cables can make a difference. BUT for me personally, there is absoutely no @#$% way I would spend $'s on high dollar cables. 

(Note: this opinion is not the same one as mentioned above. The above one involved Mozart.)

I expressed my views in this thread just about two years ago, in a lengthy post dated 3-15-2016. I won’t repeat them here, but suffice it to say that I believe they represent a more balanced and nuanced perspective than most of the views that are commonly expressed in these kinds of debates.

What I want to add now is a statement I recently made in the following thread:

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/it-s-simple

Several of the early responses to the OP in that thread, which involved comments he made about cables, leveled accusations of trolling against him. It subsequently became clear that nothing could be further from the truth. I then said as follows:

Almarg 2-27-2018
Another thing your post does [referring to a subsequent post by the OP, which went into more detail than his original post], when juxtaposed with the responses by some others earlier in the thread, is to reinforce a perception I’ve had for some time that some here are much too quick to hurl accusations of trolling. Which can often turn what might have been a constructive and informative thread into a series of pointless exchanges of insults and ugliness.

Regards,
-- Al

Edit:  +1 Joeylawn36111.  The rest of this post was composed and submitted before seeing your post just above.