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What is wrong with Audiophiles?

Well, many issues. The pursuit after uber-expensive interconnects, speaker cables, power conditioners, power cables can be rediculous. Not to mention Audiophiles who paint the outer sides of their CD's with a green marker. A few days ago I visited a local hi-fi exhibition in Israel. Two of the most impressive rooms where the YG Acoustics with an all NAGRA amplification and the Focal room. The speaker cables in the first room cost $70,000. That was also the cost of the speaker cable in the Focal room. One could buy a BMW or a Merc AMG or a Porsche for that much money. Does this make sense to you? And, lest I forget, I have an Audiophile neighbor in the building where I live. I offered him to borrow a CD of an Israeli singer that I admire. How is the quality of the recording, he asked. "average", I answered. "No, I can't listen to average recordings", he replied. I call that "Audiophilia neurosis". 
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andy2
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 that $70,000 cable can perform noticeably better than one that costs 1/10 or even 1/100th the price.
Fair enough ..... Give me that test.  
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analogluvr
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 The $70,000 cable performs much better at inducing a placebo effect in the listener.   Then the insecure audiophile can rest easy knowing he has done all that he can,, until next year when they release the $80,000 cable! 
 That’s how the dealerships get you, you need to spend 20% of your system cost on cables… What a load of who Ha! 
andy2
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Cables can induce such hatred.  "Don't hate me because I am a cable lols". 

I used to work with a guy who graduated from CalTech who was one of the smartest engineer I knew.  He told me his brother was an avid audiophile.  They used to have an argument that cables don't make any difference.  

The CalTech engineer was so adamant that speaker cables don't make any difference and came up with all sort of theories trying to explain why cables should not make any difference.

Yeah ... some people trying to use logic to explain why some people would pay for a $70K cables.  Don't they know better?  

Give me that test.  I'll prove you wrong America.  
glupson
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geoffkait,
"The color black doesn’t absorb infrared light anyway."
Where does infrared light get stored after being absorbed by whatever color that absorbs it?
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