Why pay so much?

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.

Lololololol.
You think a cable sales person is trustworthy?
Lol.
Lololololol.
Okay.
I see we don't see eye to eye on this.

Hopefully I made people think differently about their hobby
Thanks for your time.
- Andy

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.

I’m just saying, that it’s a herd like mentality. That if several people are willing to pay $1,000-50,000 for wiring that companies will sprout up to take advantage of consumers fears that they aren’t hearing the music and movies the way they supposed to.
If no one would shell out $30,000 for the high end Audioquests Dragon Zero and Bass, they wouldn’t disappear like how your favorite fast food company would disappear if they had to cut margins 99%. They would be out of business in 1 week.
But if the hifi crowd refused to spend money on anything that weren’t 100% margins or less - there would still be AudioQuest Dragon Zero and Bass, they’d just charge $300 instead of $30,000.
They can afford to not have these margins. For the ignorant audiophile ( no offense - just a lack of knowledge and information and understanding of whats going on), they don’t know this. And would many companies close doors?
Probably.
But do you need 1,000+ wiring companies? Or just a few good ones.
Because if you guys weren’t willing to fork over your wallet for "hearing beyond just the notes" of music, the hifi cables wouldn’t disappear, they’d just be affordable. Because where there is a market, there 100% of the time nearly there is a product.

Now what do you have to say to that glupson?
Lol.
In good fun.