Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable?


I recently ordered high end speaker, power amp, and preamp to be installed in couple more weeks. So the next search are interconnect and speaker cable. After challenging the dealer and 3 of my so called audiophile friends, I think the only reason I would buy expensive cable is for its appearance to match with the high end gears but not for sound performance. I personally found out that $5K cable vs $10 cable are no difference, at least not to our ears. Prior to this, I was totally believe that cable makes a difference but not after this and reading few articles online.

Here is how I found out.

After the purchase of my system, I went to another dealer to ask for cable opinion (because the original dealer doesn't carry the brand I want) and once I told him my gears, he suggested me the high end expensive cable ranging from $5 - 10K pair, depending on length. He also suggested the minimum length must be 8-12ft. If longer than 12ft, I should upgrade to even more expensive series. So I challenged him that if he can show me the difference, I would purchase all 7 AQ Redwood cables from him.

It's a blind test and I would connect 3 different cables - 1 is the Audioquest Redwood, 1 is Cardas Audio Clear, and 1 my own generic 14AWG about 7ft. Same gears, same source, same song..... he started saying the first cable sound much better, wide, deep, bla...bla...bla......and second is decently good...bla...bla...bla.. and the last one sounded crappy and bla...bla...bla... BUT THE REALITY, I NEVER CHANGED THE CABLE, its the same 14AWG cable. I didn't disclosed and move on to second test. I told him I connected audioquest redwood but actually 14AWG and he started to praise the sound quality and next one I am connected the 14awg but actually is Redwood and he started to give negative comment. WOW!!!! Just blew me right off.

I did the same test with 3 of my audiophile friends and they all have difference inputs but no one really got it right. Especially the part where I use same generic 14awg cable and they all start to give different feedback!!!

SO WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK? OR I AM THE LAST PERSON TO FIND OUT THAT EXPENSIVE CABLE JUST A RIP OFF?
sautan904
trolling of this nature is all about saying something and hoping the mirror of it will come back, and make the issuer of such missives..feel comfortable in their own skin. that the ego gets what it wants, which is to be comfortable and in charge. The body’s high level programming, responsible for the voice in the head effect, as a rolling moving awareness loop. It’s not the real mind. The real mind is far more intelligent and is in the unconscious aspects.

Said differently, very few people actually understand and live with the word ’consciousness’. Most are on a rose colored glasses version of an ego driven/filtered autopilot. As in likely...99% of the population. If not more. Not quite 100% --- but frighteningly close.

Generally, +75% of the people reading this will somehow put themselves in that 0.5% or less remainder.

Part of human psychology. Which is why Jung had it right and Freud was, in the end, an idiot. And Bernays an opportunistic roving butcher. Eating the world, like all his contacts and connections.

Trolls lack the ability to participate so they troll ... can't afford any expensive gears.   I guess it's a human mechanism to cope with their failure.  

This happens in all facets of life.   People buy Mercedes are idiots, $100 bottle of wine, expensive clothes ...
It is unfortunately human nature for "the Have-nots to covet what the Haves have".
" rolls lack the ability to participate so they troll ... can't afford any expensive gears."

This is a very true assertion and in fact those who cannot afford the cost of a high performance Music Reproduction System actually suffer a form of what they call "confirmation bias" because they can't afford it they think it is not high performance you see this with those who assert that cables do not make a difference because they have science that tells them this when in fact to their credit many admit they have never even tried high performance cables and the reason they have not tried is that they know the better cable will not make a difference! 
I’ve been to the top of the mountain (not just Base Camp) and this is what I found out.

- A rich audiophile has about as much chance of getting into Audio Nirvana as a camel has of passing through the eye of a needle. 🐪

- Necessity is the mother of invention.

- An ordinary man has no means of deliverance. 😳

- Generally speaking, people would be much better off if they believed in too much rather than too little.

Joke: two guys were sitting next to each other in a commercial airliner. One guy looks out the window says to the other, gee, those people look just like ants. The other guy replies, they are ants, dummy. We haven’t taken off yet.