Are cables really worth their high price because of their geometry?

Another cables thread..... :)

I am amazed by the way most people think they will solve the upgrading S.Q. problem...

Any upgrade is welcome the more costly the better, cables, amplifiers, dac, speakers, etc except the most important thing to take care of...

The most important factors to take care of are the acoustical, the electrical, and the mechanical embeddings...NO other one....Certainly not buying something because of frustration or unsatifaction by way of a solution... No new electronic design in dac and amplifier or even speakers, will  compensate for a bad or inexistant controls of these embeddings.... I know that firsthand....If you want to upgrade wait till these controls embeddings are rightfully implemented...Money dont necessarily buy Hi-FI, this is a costly myth....Listening experiments  will give you  Hi-Fi.... 

Nobody will acuse me of repeating myself now, with all these tedious discussions about cables differences....MIssing the essential audio problem and taking for target a secondary one....

i must repeat myself for the benefit of newcomers.... Newcomers dont buy anything, think and experiment with what you have first.....

My best to all.....

P.S. yes cables sound different, but are mostly overvalued in all ways....The upgrading of the embeddings may cost peanuts for those who try....Newcomers be warned....

Madman, there are less high end cables for sale then there are high end amps, speakers, etc. I just looked at Audiogon for each category and searched by price starting at high to low, so your statement is not correct. People change components, and different cables work better in different systems, so they get swapped out. 

Twisted wire will help guard against interference. I've never tried these but they look pretty well made and offer to measure the LCR for you at a reasonable price. 

https://sites.google.com/view/pine-tree-audio/speaker/speaker-cables/visceral

Speedbump,

Yes I may be madman today, but when I checked just now agon currently shows 1064 cable listings more than any other category of "hardware".

The geometry of a cable is a big determining factor in how a cable will sound, but a complex geometry doesn't mean it's better sounding than a simple geometry. Oftentimes, these complex geometries measure worse than the simple ones.
Like most things in audio, it's about system synergy and listener's preference. No two systems/rooms are alike, so there's NO perfect component nor cable in audio regardless of how exotic the geometry or materials are! Add salt to a bland dish then it's right, add it to a salty dish then it's wrong, that's why we hear praise and insult for the same component all the time. Somehow we keep spending more and more thinking the higher price cable will be better.
As for the high price of cables in general, a lot of the cost is the labor, especially for the hand-built and custom made ones. Boutique connectors are also very expensive, much more than the conductors, dielectric, fillers, and dress up materials. Then there is the cost of R&D which varies greatly amongst companies. And then there is rent, employees, marketing, etc. that most businesses endure. All of these costs add up pretty quickly.