why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable

Dynaquest4 - Your very first post here ! . Welcome . I think we will get along swimmingly !

Blind A/B testing has been shot full of holes so many times the concept could sell in the dairy section.

or expensive watches, or expensive cars, or expensive wine, etc.....

"audio as a hobby is dying, largely by its own hand. As far as the real world is concerned, high-end audio lost its credibility during the 1980s, when it flatly refused to submit to the kind of basic honesty controls (double-blind testing, for example) that had legitimized every other serious scientific endeavor since Pascal. [This refusal] is a source of endless derisive amusement among rational people and of perpetual embarrassment for me..”

-Gordon Holt
 Stereophile

chrshan37 wrote above . Like it . No ,LOVE IT !!!!