Life expectancy of Interconnects & Speaker Cable?

I figure mine are going to go bad at/or about 7:13am on May 17, 2097. Though I don't think I'll be around then, and if I am I'll probably be incapable of discerning there breakdown as it happens right before me.

If there is an audiophile out there who has had ANY cables for 5 years I would be surprised. Who can resist upgrading for that long!?

Dlwask....if you spent 5k on cable 5 yrs ago....how much better can that cable get?

I would guess life expectancy of a well built cable to be around 100 years, give or take. Rough handling could decrease this time drastically.

I don't believe there has been any tremendous improvement in cable design in the last 5 years. The only 'improvement' that I find much more prevelant in today's top cables is cryogenic processing.
The designs are fairly similar. You could send your 5 year old state of the art cables out to be cryo'd, and I'm sure they'd be right at home with today's best cables.