Why pay so much?

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.

Have you ever listened to a $100. interconnect in a high performance system, then listened to a $2000. interconnect in the same system.

You will hear the difference.  When  building a system, everything matters as has often been stated here over and over.

I do';t know what stated this stratospheric pricing of cables many years ago BUT the higher end ones do make a noticeable difference. especially if the rest of your equipment is at a similar level.

I just replaced a 20 yr. old $2000.  interconnect with a $4000.interconnect and there is a big difference. There are things I never heard before the upgrade now available and all the audiophile buzz words can be used in describing the new "sound".  Worth $2000. ??  Depends on the buyers perspective and desires.

ps.  Don't justify raw costs with the selling price. If you knew the material cost of everything you bought, you would never buy anything.
Since you trust billion dollars companies blindly, have you flown on any 737 MAX jets lately? I think they are grounded for some design flaws.