Harmonic Technology Cyberlight cables

There isn't much discussion on this cable yet. I am anxious to hear more myself. There has been a small amount of discussion over at Cable Asylum.

Jim Wang, one of the owners of HT told me they are the only one in the us to have this tech. I plan on outfitting my system with these cables. If they do what they are purported to do. These cables should make all other interconects obsolete, unless you are looking for a cable that adds some sort of color or tuning to your system.

As with most of the high end cables, these are priced at about 10 times what they should cost based on manufacturing costs. Of course, the way things have gotten in the industry, to be considered as really high end they have to be really high priced. Optical cable costs pennies per foot. And if you all are willing to pay $400 for a battery power supply then I'm really in the wrong line of work.

Breaking the ground should be a good thing and these cables may actually make a useful difference. However, any time I ask the question "what other system upgrades are available at this price" then expensive cabling always comes up short. You'd have to spend a minimum $5000 to wire your system with this stuff. More if you have a more complex setup. For that kind of money I can think of a lot of component upgrades or system changes (bi-amping or acoustic treatments for example)that would be within my reach and have the potential to make more of a difference.

Sadly, none of what I say will deter any customers. Might as well pick up those $30,000 speaker cables while you're at it. Gotta have 'em to impress your friends.

Quick, somebody find a way to reverse engineer this product so that we can DIY it for $50 or less. That would get my attention. The world is full of over priced cables. The only reason cable companies are coming out of the woodwork, so to speak, is that the profit margins are insane.

I have owned the Harmonic Technology Cyberlight cables for a while now, well before either one of the Positive Feedback reviews came out. In my opinion these reviews were right on the mark the Cyberlights are every bit as good as they say.
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue17/cyberlights.htm
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue17/cyberlight.htm

Willster said:

As with most of the high end cables, these are priced at about 10 times what they should cost based on manufacturing costs.

As you said this is a ground breaking cable technology. If it was so easy why hadn't it been invented before? There had to be start up tooling, research and development which costs time and money.

However, any time I ask the question "what other system upgrades are available at this price

There are people such as myself who are happy with their components and may just want to bring out the best in what they all ready have. This cable, I believe has helped me do that.

I for one am thankful for people like Jim Wang for thinking outside of the box, and for bringing such an exciting new product to the market. You dont have to buy it or even like it, but why bash something you have never heard?

Brad