Why pay so much?

When a 60 minutes airs about this blatant speaker wire price scam.

What will you guys be left with once the market tanks?

$5 worth of copper, $5 worth of  banana plugs, and $1 worth of cable jackets.

You might be able to get $100 for the fact that it transports audio signals.

@clearthink

 It is because there are people who lack the skills, education, and experience to earn, acquire, and develop the wealth aka "expendable income" to purchase these products.... yada, yada.....

Seriously - what a sanctimonious pile of crap.   What makes you all-knowing?  How about those of us who can afford expensive wire, have heard and owned expensive wire, yet don't buy into the hype and choose to build our own speaker cable out of much less expensive materials, such as 50-year old copper?  I suppose we are not worthy because our systems or hearing are somehow deficient....right?  Standard playbook stuff.

Mitch2, copper is billions of years old. It comes from the collision of 2 neutron stars in a binary system or in other words it’s stars that have exploded in to a super nova and failed to turn in to a black hole leaving neutron stars that combine at a 1/3 the speed of light, and create precious metals. 50 year old copper? Are you seriously kidding me? If $30k AudioQuest Dragon Zero and Dragon Bass were $100, would you buy them still? If your MIT Oracle Matrix SHD 120 Rev. 2 Speaker Interface didn’t cost $40k, and were $200, would you buy them? Audio cable theories on fidelity in wires aside, would anyone buy these wires if they only just costed $300? And I’m talking introductory prices. Not discounted. If their original pricing were to have been $100-200 for each of them.
Because with 100,000% margins, they’d still make 1,000% margins on those 3 wires I listed if they changed those prices. I’m just saying you’re all getting ripped off. Do they sound "better" to you? Fine, whatever, but at least don’t get ripped off. If AudioQuest charged a few hundred dollars, or MIT wire charged a few hundred dollars, they never would have been considered "high fidelity", because of the expensive M.S.R.P. (manufacturer suggested retail pricing) dollar effect, affects your perception.

mitch22,073 posts10-26-2019 8:53am
Seriously - what a sanctimonious pile of crap. What makes you all-knowing? How about those of us who can afford expensive wire, have heard and owned expensive wire, yet don’t buy into the hype and choose to build our own speaker cable out of much less expensive materials, such as 50-year old copper? I suppose we are not worthy because our systems or hearing are somehow deficient....right? Standard playbook stuff.

Uh, nobody is paying $70,000 for cables. I don’t even have capable, End of debate.

Besides, neutrons produce nuclear chain reactions. Those are very bad for sound. 😬