New level of ridiculousness

Phaelon,
It's really pretty simple. Imagine a person with an annual income of $10,000,000.00, buying this power strip for $9K.
Is it affordable to him? Of course, it is. Does the fact of such purchase changes the value of the above strip? No, it doesn't, it's still overvalued, relative to the content offered.
That's the whole point- 8 outlets in a shiny marble box for $9,000.00 is overvalued no matter how you slice it, regardless of the affordability.

10-31-12: Viridian
Ya know, I was just down at the grocery store buyin' a nice box of Carlo Rossi rose. It gets the missis in the mood, ya know? There was some moron right next to me pickin' out some Chateau Effete something or other, from 1954, he said it was "new original stock" or somethin'. Like they made it, but no one drunk it. Well, if no one wanted it from 1954 to now, why the hell am I gonna' drink it? Hell, I want fresh wine, in a new box, not that old crap.

Reminds me of Steve Martin in "The Jerk"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sELqobCIXU

I think marble was a poor choice. There are better stone materials - like steatite. Would not have to line it with cork.

I don't mind an attempt to go all out on any component, but when bling simply takes over, as in this case, it does not appeal.

Regards,

No one's heard of Sound Application RLS-X?

Sadly (to my wallet), they actually work :(

I ended up with 3: 2x regular and 1x X.

Lucky I bought the regular ones used.

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?

Al, of course, we don't know that, but it is also not very likely to be objective after spending that much money. Person who really believes that ultra expensive power strip should sound better will hear that. There is nothing wrong with improvement thru placebo effect as long as one can afford it. Please don't doubt or conduct blindfold tests since it might ruin perfectly good placebo effect improvement. Just let this person be (that's perhaps what my friends think, seeing my double runs of inch thick speaker cables)