Cable Snake Oil Antidote

My take on this:

Audiofools
noun
Those who believe that $3,500 cables let them hear the audio more clearly, when the music was originally created with $25 cables.

Many of my contemporaries carried specialized microphones, pre-amps, cables, amps and speakers to achieve the best possible recordings.The more revealing a system is, the better. Albums I mixed 30+ years ago get better as each layer of fog is removed from the playback system.

We installed studios where the cable budget was many 10's of thousands.

Price is irrelevant. Performance is what counts.

“Price is irrelevant. Performance is what counts.”

I totally agree prove is in listening.


Kenny.

price is VERY relevant.
it determines weather a wire is covered with snake oil or not.
any price in excess of $5...6 per linear foot is snake oil.

Why not $0.50 or $0.60 / ft?

Some like 22ga zip @ $0.08 / ft. It's entirely possible their system is incapable of resolving anything better or 22ga zip gives the most musical representation in THAT SYSTEM.

Other than snake oil and dishonesty, there are many parameters that determine cost. Whether these parameters are a positive depends on the system.