why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable

Over $1000 for a 1M pair interconnects is certainly expensive, or $2000 for a pair of 2M speaker cables.
In fact, I believe that speakers are no less 'overpriced'.
Do they try to sell furniture or sound when they sell expensive speakers? I guess both. And so double the price - you pay for both. Not to mention that they might cost 10% that figure to the manufacturer.
At least cables by definition are ugly, you can't sell them as a nice furniture too.
But also, why do some think that transmitting the signal with minimal loss and distortion is easy to accomplish?
Anyway, I just bought $1200 interconnect to replace $800 one from $1000 phono to $1500 integrated amp. Stupid, right? Everything was bought used. I'll have to burn it in for 200 hours because it was refilled with Ferox by Purist and then I might report my findings. It is one step up from what I have now, I bet there will be a difference but not big.

Has nothing to do with cost! , if my cable's cost $19.00 I would be thrilled, sadly in the real world, you get what you pay for! ,lol

I agree with Melbguy1!

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zd . thanks for pointing out the manufacturing costs for one cable out of a thousand !"

I gave more than 1. If you do a search for Cardas pics, you'll find some pictures of cables that were stripped down, layer by layer, so you can see how intricate the assembly actually is. The artists drawings in the sales lit doesn't do it justice.

I also mentioned Tara. As far as I know, you can't go out and buy rectangular solid core conductors. That has to be made in house using custom built machines.

I also remember stating that many cables don't have this type of construction cost and are probably over priced. I can name plenty of those as well. I also don't think its a coincidence that Tara, Nordost and Cardas are 3 of the biggest brands of cables in the world. They must be doing something right.