@clearthinker Of course it's mad. It's just stupid to pay $1000 for speaker wires.
But as to credibility, there are those that would look on a $300,000 product and think that the vendor must have incredible engineering resources leveraging ground-breaking technology to provide something at that level and assume that some of that technology must be trickling down to the lower price points. Of course, there are those, like me, that realize these prices represent nothing more than the cajónes of the manufacturer, and have nothing to do with quality, engineering, or technology, and it's a measure of just how shady they are.