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I think some cables are just a little too expensive.

A while back a shop I did business with carried Transparent Audio Cables. They were so expensive it was obscene. They did sound good, but you had to move up from the bottom to the more idiotically pricey models to start to feel the magic. It had been several years ago and I wanted to check in on my old friends at Transparent Audio. This is their top of the line speaker cable. Now if you don't have a problem with this whole cable thing, this might push you over the edge. I can't imagine a speaker that would need such a cable. Wilson? Rockport? What amp? You can buy a nice luxury vehicle for the same price as a pair of speaker cables? Nelson Pass would be embarrassed to see these monstrosities on one of his amplifiers.

https://www.transparentcable.com/collections/magnum-opus/products/magnum-opus-speaker-cable
chrismini
douglas_schroeder
3,281 posts
 
Expensive cables are no more a waste than expensive analogue. 

If you don't think so, prove it. Go ahead, use the data, the objective criteria you say is missing with cables. Show me. Go get the graphs that demonstrate the better plinth, motor, arm, cartridge actually makes better sound. 

Bunch of hypocrites around here.  :) 


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roxy54
8,187 posts
 
Hi Douglas,
I agree with your comments about the pros and cons of more vs. less drivers. Both types have their charms. 
I also sadly agree with your comments about cables. While there are low cost cables that are not bad, like Kimber 8tc; as I have gone to the lower-middle grade that I can afford, there is a big difference. I know that applies for the much less affordable upper regions.  
oldhvymec
5,101 posts
 
I had to grab my NUTS on some of this and say WHY DO things breed?

Things that won't take care of THEMSELVES DON'T live.

Only humans do and expect ME, or anyone else, to feed, cloth, and pay for someone else's existence with my money. 
  
I suppose you agree with I took it, from him/her.
I didn't steal it, too.

Sick thinkin' in my America... I don't care WHO has money, as long as they didn't steal it to get, and are entitled to it. No one is ENTITLED to mine, EVER... Charity is there for a reason.. DO YOU GIVE time and money, to the needy. To the needy, I do. THE friggin' bums NO way...

BACK to what I CAN BUY now...With MY HARD EARNED money from multi billionaires. Thank you...

No regards.. 
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nyaudio98
420 posts
 
Way way over priced..one guy i know of has oden 2 inter connects.  speakers cable u name it..retail 200k...kid u not in his system. 
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