@in_shore
"There’s not much close to the confiscatory pricing of lengths of wire in this hobby except for perhaps streamers and server’s , basically computer parts in an attractive looking box.
I love these threads and if I were in the audiophile business selling lengths of proprietary designed wire would be my first choice and my 2nd would be streamers and servers at eye popping esoteric prices of course..."
Yeah, that would be the easy way to do it - if we had no scruples of course.
Once upon a time Noel Lee (Monster Cables) transformed himself into an almost overnight millionaire with little more than the power of suggestion - ie thicker = better.
Naturally enough many since have sought to follow in his footsteps.
However since those days of poor DIN plugs, crudely twisted wire extensions, and the cheapest possible bell wire are over, a different approach must be found.
In this era of readily available high purity oxygen-free copper, suggestion just won’t hack it anymore. Audiophiles may be gullible but not that gullible.
And so a better weapon must be found, and it has been.
Paranoia.
In particular the widespread attempt to feed concerns over electromagnetic / radio interference (4G/5G, smartphones etc) has now become the weapon of choice to induce audiophile paranoia.
As advertisers have long known, humans are always vulnerable to paranoia.
More importantly they will pay good money to be relieved of it.
The issue of whether the most expensive cables (power, loudspeaker or interconnect, take your pick) that money can buy today actually sound any better than those from the mid-1970s is not something any cable vendor would dare to claim.
They simply dare not propagate such falsehood.
For obvious reasons.
@in_shore, on second thoughts, if you want to write the blurb I'll find a supplier or vice versa...
"There’s not much close to the confiscatory pricing of lengths of wire in this hobby except for perhaps streamers and server’s , basically computer parts in an attractive looking box.
I love these threads and if I were in the audiophile business selling lengths of proprietary designed wire would be my first choice and my 2nd would be streamers and servers at eye popping esoteric prices of course..."
Yeah, that would be the easy way to do it - if we had no scruples of course.
Once upon a time Noel Lee (Monster Cables) transformed himself into an almost overnight millionaire with little more than the power of suggestion - ie thicker = better.
Naturally enough many since have sought to follow in his footsteps.
However since those days of poor DIN plugs, crudely twisted wire extensions, and the cheapest possible bell wire are over, a different approach must be found.
In this era of readily available high purity oxygen-free copper, suggestion just won’t hack it anymore. Audiophiles may be gullible but not that gullible.
And so a better weapon must be found, and it has been.
Paranoia.
In particular the widespread attempt to feed concerns over electromagnetic / radio interference (4G/5G, smartphones etc) has now become the weapon of choice to induce audiophile paranoia.
As advertisers have long known, humans are always vulnerable to paranoia.
More importantly they will pay good money to be relieved of it.
The issue of whether the most expensive cables (power, loudspeaker or interconnect, take your pick) that money can buy today actually sound any better than those from the mid-1970s is not something any cable vendor would dare to claim.
They simply dare not propagate such falsehood.
For obvious reasons.
@in_shore, on second thoughts, if you want to write the blurb I'll find a supplier or vice versa...