why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable

if someone posts that they have an expensive Watch collection, or Wine collection, everyone has a positive reaction. it's cool. even a sailboat or toy car.

but if someone who has worked hard to assemble the best possible audio system finds that one of the only avenues left to push a little farther down the road is with an 'uber' set of cables then it's fair game to bash them.

in their minds, it's not 'cool enough' or 'accepted' so the haters come out. in their minds they cannot accept the value equation like those other indulgent uses for discretionary cash so might as well take shots.

just the negative pack mentality going on.

Haters gonna hate! My new cables retail for $15k....gentlemen start your engines

Cables can only do so much. Finding the right pairing for your speakers can be a pain. I've just come to the realization that an old pair of cables I had lying around were perfect for my speakers.

I stated something to that effect earlier on but feel the need to expand a bit on it. My newish speakers took a while to sound right. First, they needed to break in and I was impatient. So tweak away I did with new stands, footers, going through all my old cables, and buying some new ones. I should have been patient.

Not keeping a constant in place made for some maddening results. I thought I had it all dialed in. It was only on a lark when I had some spare time that I dug out some old cables and tried one and it worked like magic.

What I'm trying to say here is that it very well may be that there's not THAT much difference in some well thought out cable design and it's your speakers that you should take a close, hard look at. The potential that lay in my new speakers was dormant until I keyed in on the right cables.

All the best,
Nonoise

just the negative pack mentality going on.

LOSER mentality!!!

My system has $24,000.00 8ft speaker cable's, Mikelavigne's Grandmaster original model speaker cable's retail for 42,000.00 8ft, his system may be better for such cable's, however, it was worth the price of admission for me, I bet it was for mikelavigne, ask him, chances are, he is happy with his decision,enjoy the music.