Cables that cost more than good loudspeakers

Foster 9,
It would be very difficult for me to disagree with your sentiments on cable pricing.

Greetings,
Speaker cables and interconnect cables are the last chain in the system. One of the most important part of the audio system.
I totally agree with what Elizabeth stated in her response above. Very well put.

I wish high end cables were less expensive then what they are, but they are not. There are many cables out there that sound great for any price range.

When I purchased my Avalon Radian HC speakers ($12.5k without shipping costs) I ran a pair of MIT 770 speaker interface cables (about $1.7K), I then bought a pair of MIT 850 triad interface speaker cables ($9.5K), they totally chage the sound of the speaker in a very good way. The MIT 850"s were specially designed for the Avalon Radian HC's.

I wish I could have bought them sooner. If I every go to sell my Avalon's the MIT 850's would have to go with them.
I wish the cables cost less, but in my system the price was well worth it.
Respectfully,
Joe Nies

I have had many sets of cables you would classify as crazy. I can hear a difference with some of them I aggreee most are way overpriced. But as I stated some sound better than others. Some systems Like silver and almost all of thoes cables are in the multi thousand range.

Everyone's got the right to buy and sell what they want, unless it's illegal stuff obviously. If I had a Bill Gates-esque fortune, I still wouldn't pay that much for any cable. That's just me, and I'll have that right if I ever am fortunate enough to be able to exercise it.

The kitchen analogy mentioned earlier is a very poor one IMO. In the right house, properly investing in it can increase the value of the house in multiples of the cost of a renovation. The same can't be said for any cable.

One way to view this topic is to break it down into 2 categories:

1. Passive equalization - one cable may emphasize bass more than another, etc etc.

2. Resolution access - no change in frequency response (or perception), instead noise floor is dropped and any hash or grain is lowered.

I find that the more expensive cables fall into the second category. You can look at components this way too, your 'reference class' components fall into the second category.