$10k Speaker Cables??????????????

OP asks "when will the madness end." It will end when everyone is as smart, savvy and knowledgeable as most of the "naysayers" on this forum. It will end when audiophiles "get" that when they spend exorbitant amounts on audio accessories, they are primarily concerned, not with the quality of their music, but with what their equipment says about them... to other naive beholders.

E.g.: no one buys a Rolex because it tells time better...because it doesn’t.

The answer: cryogenically treated 🐈💩. 

Whoa! What? Hey, did someone call for a troll convention?

“Build it and they will come.”

And here you are, Johnny at the rathole, eh, Kitty?  🙀🐈💩

Honestly even my teenage daughter has outgrown the poop emojis.......
Such advanced maturity and we wonder why this hobby and forums are dying.