Are audiophiles still out of their minds?

Analoglvr

"I love this one by Geoff,

Two, your contention that blind tests reveal that all expensive cables are no better than cheap cables is either your own puffery and untrue or if you have been involved in a blind test, which BTW I actually doubt, that produced negative results I suggest it is simply an outlier and can be thrown out.

Basically if if your test results aren't what I want them to be they are "an outlier" and can be thrown out. Too bad that doesn't work in court🙄
And by the way drac I don't think you should exclude coat hangers from your statement. They probably sound better than some 2k cables. "

One thing I've learned about Geoff is that he is incompetent at trolling. He will repeatedly stick his foot in his mouth, and then pretend like he never said or meant it even though you quote him verbatim. He will try to come off being "cool" posting what he thinks is witty and then get all defensive when someone points out his contradictions.  

I agree there are a few pretty incompetently designed expensive cables that may have trouble competing with coat hangers.  Imagine the controversy if I started the thread this way.  Watts and Geoff would have their pants up to their nipples and challenging me to a dual.

"I never said you did say there’s NO difference between cables. What you keep saying, though, is that there is NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE in sound quality between very expensive cables and inexpensive cables. And you yourself provided evidence to the contrary when you linked the blind test that showed otherwise."

Sigh.  You just don't get it do you? How many times do I have to repeat myself.  CORRELATION, CORRELATION, CORRELATION!!!
You're a horrible troll.  

"In my experience I have generally found the correlation coefficient between intelligence and economic success to be greater the zero."

Watts, do you really talk like this?  Have you ever kissed a girl?

"dracule1 - why don't you contact the cable manufacturers whose products you find disagreeable & ask them to justify their prices...? Then you can post the response..."

Infection, funny that you ask. I did do that at an audio show. One manufacturer was dumbfounded that I even asked the question and fumbled to give me an answer.  In the end, he said something to the effect of his cables being the Mercedes of cables.  Righhhhhhhhhht.  Others will try to overwhelm you with their proprietary but unproven technology hoping you'll buy into it.

Then, I called a well known cable manucture who makes cables up to about $2000 to $3000. His most expensive power cord is about $900 for 1.5 meters.  I asked him what goes into $15,000 power cord. He is a metallurgist and an engineer. He basically told me he couldn't justify the cost of such power cord based on his knowledge of price of metals, insulators, cost of manufacture, advertising, and distribution.  Either he doesn't know what he's talking about, which I highly doubt because I own several of his power cords and would put them up against any PC, or there is a lot of price gauging in high end. He is not my friend, and I have no loyalty to him. I'm just his customer.