"...why pay up to $70,000 for speaker wire?"Just because one can.
"How do you guys let yourself taken advantage of?"How often are people who can afford $70 000 speaker cables actually taken advantage of?
Why pay so much?
If you want to think cables make a huge difference in sound fine...but why pay up to $70,000 for speaker wire?
You can buy 38 lbs of 99.99% bullion silver for $10,000 or 4000 lbs of 99.99% bullion copper.
Buying a pair of 12 foot $5,000 wire is obserd it costs like $30 to make and WBT connectors are also highly inexpensive to make too.
Why do you guys shell out money on a clear fact that you guys are insecure about using low priced stuff and these people know that and take advantage of that.
How do you guys let yourself taken advantage of?
You can buy 38 lbs of 99.99% bullion silver for $10,000 or 4000 lbs of 99.99% bullion copper.
Buying a pair of 12 foot $5,000 wire is obserd it costs like $30 to make and WBT connectors are also highly inexpensive to make too.
Why do you guys shell out money on a clear fact that you guys are insecure about using low priced stuff and these people know that and take advantage of that.
How do you guys let yourself taken advantage of?
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I fail to see how if you’re rich, that you can’t be taken advantage of, lol. And while you’re at it, because you can afford to spend $70k on wire, why not buy a $500 latte, or a $1,000 12" subway meatball sandwich, because in terms of margins, that’s still much lower than cost to build hifi wiring. glupson2,649 posts10-23-2019 9:15pm "...why pay up to $70,000 for speaker wire?"Just because one can. "How do you guys let yourself taken advantage of?"How often are people who can afford $70 000 speaker cables actually taken advantage of? |
funaudiofun, $70 000 cables are an investment with much better return than $350 lattes. Cables are expected to last more than 200 days, assuming you drink just one coffee a day. If you invested in lattes, at the end of those 200 days, you would be left with nothing tangible while you could resell cables for, let’s say, $20 000. If you ate one $1000 sandwich followed by one $350 latte a day, $70 000 cables would become a bargain even sooner. In less than two months. Along the way, you may get the satisfaction from knowing you have tried it (almost) all. Kind of like being a tourist and wanting to go to yet another place you have never been to. No real use for it, but people do it every day and brag about it. Of course it is possible to be taken advantage of if you are rich. I just suspect that it will be done by one’s acquired family members more often than by a cable salesperson. |
funaudiofun, "You think a cable sales person is trustworthy?"Being taken advantage of does not depend on some cable salesperson’s trustworthiness. It depends on buyer’s gullibility. Salesperson has relatively little to do with it. Back to your initial question about why people buy what you may consider "expensive cables". Because they often look better than cheap ones. Simply for the looks. |
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