New level of ridiculousness

comes with a video and spelled with an extra "a". must be good. loaded with quantum goodness that.

Aaudio showed a SOTA $300K+ rig at RMAF. An $8K power bar is a waste in a $25-40K rig. In a $300K rig it is 2.6% of total system cost, or less.

Simply addressing the question from a system quality standpoint, if I were building a cost-no-object rig from $300K+ I sure wouldn't use crap as a power bar.

Here you go, a justification! I knew, somebody would say that!!!

Some people equate cost with better sound quality and it is`nt that strong a correlation in high end audio IMO.This is why I`m an advocate of an open market and free enterprise. People are free to purchase what that want without a need to explain or justify.Choice and freedom is great. If you feel the price is unfair,too high,low value etc.,well you just don`t buy and move on along.
Regards,

10-31-12: Charles1dad
Some people equate cost with better sound quality and it is`nt that strong a correlation in high end audio IMO.

I'll second that.

As I see it most audiophiles, including both "believers" and "skeptics," would agree that generally recognized science cannot explain why a $9K power strip might provide better sonic results than a well made power strip selling for say 1/20th of that amount. At least in terms that would stand up when analyzed quantitatively.

A corollary to that which seems to not be widely considered, however, is that even if we assume that the $9K price is justifiable based on the use of exotic materials and construction techniques, if the mechanisms by which those ultra-expensive materials and construction techniques work their magic are not technically explainable, how do we know that a lot of what is being paid for is not overkill that provides no sonic benefit? And how do we know that if a careful and genuinely open-minded comparison was performed in a $300K system between that power strip and a variety of $500 strips, that one of those relatively inexpensive strips would not provide sonic results that are comparable or even better?

Regards,
-- Al