why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable

“lying or perpetrating some kind of fraud or hoax based on directionality? Come on, people!! It’s certainly can not (rpt not) be financial gain, I seriously doubt any of the Big Players, you know, like Audioquest, HiFi Tuning, Anti Cables, Goertz, whoever, are getting a whole lot of new customers based solely on advertising “directionality” as a virtue.”

All this nonsense increases the mystique around fuses and cables. Instead of being what they are (ordinary bits of wire) they become the most incredibly complex and commensurately expensive pieces of audio equipment for all the audiofools that believe it.

Anyway coming from a proponent of hoaxes with a vested interest in fir profit sales it seems a bit rich for you to pretend innocence about what is really going down.

Thank you

@shadorne

uh, shadorne, no it doesn’t increase mystique. That’s just plain silly. At least there is no mystique among users, they’ve been using aftermarket fuses for almost 20 years. Sufficiently advanced science only looks mysterious to pseu-pseu-pseudios. The only mystique is the one created by you and other witch hunters and investigators of paranormal activity. 🤡 I predict gdhal shows up in five minutes, four, three....

It is the same as cable/fuse/etc break in nonsense - self-serving bs from unscrupulous dealers.

Example

Buyer: I tried it I hear nothing I want money back

Seller: You need to give it 8 weeks to settle in.

(8 weeks later)

Buyer: I still hear nothing I want my money back

Seller: Try the other direction

Buyer: Ok I reversed it but I cant hear anything I want my money back.

Seller: You need to give it 8 more weeks be patient...

(8 weeks later)

Buyer: I cant hear anything I want my money back

Seller: We are making pink ones now, they are three generations better. I will send you one in return for the orange mark 42.56b model. We don’t do refunds after 90 days but I assure you that the pink ones are amazing - every one of my friends has posted excellent online reviews. Just give it 800 hours to break in.