Are audiophiles still out of their minds?


I've been in this hobby for 30 years and owned many gears throughout the years, but never that many cables.  I know cables can make a difference in sound quality of your system, but never dramatic like changing speakers, amplifiers, or even more importantly room treatment. Yes, I've evaluated many vaunted cables at dealers and at home over the years, but never heard dramatic effect that I would plunk $5000 for a cable. The most I've ever spent was $2700 for pair of speaker cables, and I kinda regret it to this day.  So when I see cable manufacturers charging 5 figures for their latest and "greatest" speaker cables, PC, and ICs, I have to ask myself who buys this stuff. Why would you buy a $10k+ cable, when there are so many great speakers, amplifiers, DACs for that kind of money, or room treatment that would have greater effect on your systems sound?  May be I'm getting ornery with age, like the water boy says in Adam Sandler's movie.
dracule1
I think cables do make a difference from personal testing, but the guys over at AVS forum are ruthless to defend that a 5 dollar copper cable sounds the same as a 1000 dollars speaker cable.

From personal testing this is not true, the difference is not so dramatic but there are clear differences. I am start to wander now each forum has a set level of thinking. Audiogon forum loves the high end cables reasonably priced. AVS forum either cant afford it so they dismiss it or dont have clean enough ears to make a sound judgement. Audio shark forum goes all out and buys what ever they feel they want. Audio circle forum has alot of decent price cables users. Gearslut forum does not believe in cable differences. 

I think one of the cheaper price Purist audio design are well built and good sounding cables. Never tried there anniversary but the commanding price is the same as a secondhand decent sports car.

Once you go past the 1000-1500 dollar mark its Law of Diminishing Return playing in at a 100 fold. Anything above this budget to me starts to get bit too silly. 

Same applies to power cords and interconnects. Anything above 1000 dollars is ridiculous.

I think Neotech is by far the best value in the cable business. 
Geoff I quoted your statement word for word....  How is that putting words in your mouth??
analogluvr
233 posts
06-22-2016 10:15am
Geoff I quoted your statement word for word.... How is that putting words in your mouth??

Simple. It’s your misunderstanding or mischaracterization of what I meant obviously. Otherwise you would not have written, "Basically if if your test results aren't what I want them to be they are "an outlier" and can be thrown out." Follow?

Then the proper statement would be" you've misunderstood what I meant"
not
"l don't appreciate having words put in my mouth"
Follow?🙄
When you wrote,

"Basically if if your test results aren’t what I want them to be they are "an outlier" and can be thrown out,"

you were putting words in my mouth. You were saying it as if I said it. Hel-looo! (Although I would not use two ifs in a row myself.) thus, you both misunderstood what I said and put words in my mouth.

capish?