Are audiophiles still out of their minds?


I've been in this hobby for 30 years and owned many gears throughout the years, but never that many cables.  I know cables can make a difference in sound quality of your system, but never dramatic like changing speakers, amplifiers, or even more importantly room treatment. Yes, I've evaluated many vaunted cables at dealers and at home over the years, but never heard dramatic effect that I would plunk $5000 for a cable. The most I've ever spent was $2700 for pair of speaker cables, and I kinda regret it to this day.  So when I see cable manufacturers charging 5 figures for their latest and "greatest" speaker cables, PC, and ICs, I have to ask myself who buys this stuff. Why would you buy a $10k+ cable, when there are so many great speakers, amplifiers, DACs for that kind of money, or room treatment that would have greater effect on your systems sound?  May be I'm getting ornery with age, like the water boy says in Adam Sandler's movie.
dracule1
I’ve mentioned before "earning on foolish and ez way of living".
Therefore I’m here in USA and I like that type of earning (hey dontcha as well huh?) and making living and use it every day except nights weekends and vacations and so is lots of high-end manufacturers on something people go crazy and spend foolishly.

The foolish at the same time, having no other brains but anger and aggression thirst (similar to our future leaders hey personally don’t give a truck which one) goes onto someone else’s lands and dwellings and takes away the wealth by force to support economy (or tell me what else y’all know). Identically to audiophile industry brainwash, to justify such imperialistic actions, mass media works efficient to convince foolish to believe that it’s for their security and protection. It seems that the "goal-finale" is to have small number of people dominate large number of people by depleting knowledge sources and education so they can more easily believe to nonsense and brainwash globally at this point of time... There’s a lot evidence to it and ones that don’t notice global national retardation (xk’uz my French), is either ignorant or indeed foolish.

Therefore we’re in constant conflict between war and peace.

Oh god Geoff, go sell a bag of rocks or something.
That is called paraphrasing, you did say it, Hel-looo!

Do you know what irony means?
The definition is Geoffkait whining about someone mischaracterizing something he's said, when he basically makes a career out of doing that to people he disagrees with.....

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analogluvr ,
Did you ever try to sell bag of rocks for $$$?

It doesn't matter how you make your career. If that's the way than the way is found and the wealth is built by once again convinsing fool. The end result is all that matters. Same applies to wire and any other manufacturers. 
Kimber cable has affordable wires and mega-priced wires for foolish rich parents' children. Why should you blame them?

If there's a demand, why not supply?