why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable

I have spent 1,000s in brand named big name cables most recently the 
Synergistic Element Tungston,after the MIT cables 

A smaller cable company named Silnote Audio  brought more natural detailed music 
At at least 30-40% less money. If you look a lot of reviews and reviewers 
Seem to feel the same way check them out .

1+ jmcgrogan2.  LOL!!!!

Some cable sound similar.  Some much more different.  How much usually varies case by case for many reasons.

The devil is always in the details.   it helps to avoid generalizations that do not always apply.

The best way for this for this thread to go away is not participating, a audio builder will try anything that has his interest,  sure,  some are decision failure's,, some are are satisfactory, and of course,  there is the wow factor,  that said,  the real perspective is that the  general public think's an audiophile is obsessive, wasteful of money,  down right crazy for the amount of money north of $1,000.00 for an entire system,  this thread has no constructive learning,  although I am certainly a believer of good  cable's can work to benefit a system,  my reason for this post is to persuade respectable audiogon member's that this thread is like discussing politic's, a never ending debate that by the end of the day,  accomplished nothing. 

It allows us to release the inner angst we all harbor and enables us to validate ourselves in an anonymous consequence free environment!  Now that's worthwhile....carry on!