What do $2500 speaker cables sound like?

Hello, I have quite a bit of hifi components, amps, preamps, turntables, and many hi-end cables.  I usually keep the cables I’ve purchased throughout the years in the event I need them in the future.  Usually, the difference between a $200 cable and a $2,500 cable from the same manufacturer is that more attention is given to making the more expensive cable sounding better. Better usually means, more open, transparent but yet smooth, better bass and smoother highs, and usually more refined.  But with some products, this is not always the case. I’ve found that my more expensive cables do sound better than my lower end cables.  But the most important point, is not $$$ spent on a cable, its synergy regardless of price. 

Of course cables make a difference the signal or power passes through them. Whether your system can reveal the difference and you can hear it is what matters. The best ones, like the best components should be neutral and let the music come through, not emphasizing certain frequencies.

One caution - they are the biggest markup of any product (not including hocus focus tweaks) possible as the cost to manufacture is much lower than any other product. The law of diminishing returns is quicker IMHO with cables than anything else.

As one who can hear differences in interconnects, speaker cables and digital connections, let alone tube rolling......  OK, power cords not so much anymore after the Niagara install, .....   I probably don't have any links other than power cords that have not been shot out 8 to 10 times...  tubes more than that.
It is what it is..............  I hear differences in everything including taking a picture on or off the wall.

In some instances interconnects can achieve “component level” increases in sound quality. Well chosen interconnects and cables make the difference between a good sounding system and a great sounding system. If don’t hear the difference then you shouldn’t buy them.

Anyone wants to hear what cables can do, come on over. In speaker cables I have a nice selection of 2 levels of Synergistic and a Townshend F1. Interconnects I have Jungson, Synergistic and Townshend F1 at price levels from a couple hundred to several thousand. In power cords you can hear Shunyata, Synergistic, and M101 Nova and Supernova. Anyone who thinks a power cord is not that big a deal the Supernova will rock your world.

Anyone who does not think these things are equally as essential as any other component, if I remove all the Townshend F1, Nova and Supernova and replace them with lesser wire, you will be shocked how comparatively awful it sounds. Even though truth be told if all you heard was my system with those cheaper wires you would be impressed. But with the better wires you are stupefied. Spellbound. Freaking amazed.

This stuff is for real. For anyone not to have got the message by now I really do have to wonder how serious you are. It is so unbelievably obvious. I mean even if your listening skills are near non-existent you would have to be way more oblivious than my wife, who is not all that interested in anything but Tchaikovsky, nevertheless she hears the difference without even going in the room. So frankly either you are an audiophile and get it, or you are a troll and never will.

Either way, all the same, you are all welcome to come and listen. You will see.