Why pay so much?

Well, I think the OP makes a very rational point, one that I completely agree with. The cost vs. benefit proposition goes completely off the rails with uber-expensive cabling.  I have Triode Wire Labs and Cerious Technology ICs's and power cables and they are pretty pricey but to my ears worth it.  However, I am not tempted at all to move up the IC food chain.   Belen and Blue Cables make excellent budget cabling, used by professional studios.  I have Supra Ply 3.4 speakers cable which is very affordable and performs well and very affordable.

What blows me away are folks that spend their cash on cheap crystals to put on their components or silly dots to affix to their windows expecting some SQ improvement. Same thing with the "fuse-heads" who salivate over some new "colored" fuse that will dramatically change the sound of their system.  Price is no bother for these adherents, but I would suggest that virtually all who adopt these pricey tweaks are victims of confirmational bias, the effect of which is more profound the more expensive the tweak is.

At any rate, I can't possible see how you can can flame the OP or call him a troll on this particular post. He has the better end of the argument.

I only have one question.

WTH would the op revive a three year old thread in which he received just the same criticism as now?

Was he expecting the audiophool mentality to have changed any for the better?

Maybe some people just enjoy getting butt hurt........

Uberwaltz,
The answer is to inform music lovers of the fallacy of spending lots of money on goofy expensive cabling which is unnecessary.  

You missed my point entirely so obviously wasting my time.....

If AudioQuest charged $350 for their Dragon Zero and Bass which would be 100% fair, I might buy it. Some would call me ridiculous considering I could get the same audio fidelity from $1 a foot belden. Paying 1,000% premium for something that probably doesn’t mean anything. But I’m OCD, and I like the idea that I have something high quality in my system. But to tell you the truth. Belden audio and video wires is my thing. Even if I wanted "better", I couldn’t find it, and would keep the Belden. And it makes sense they would be the best. They’re a $3 billion dollar company that sells their wire to NASA and all of the commercial wiring industry; the stuff that people record and operate the media I see and hear with. It makes sense that a scientific company would make the best wiring as well as charging $1 a foot; as the no nonsense company probably would have the best anyways.
I don’t go by price tag. I trust the $3 billion dollar company with hundreds of millions of dollars in research an development. Not the company that makes a few million dollars a year selling components they hand made down by the river in a van.