Enough time spent on this topic for me.
A unique product here but lots of smoke and mirrors and an price tag to go along with it.
Unique using a mu metal like conductor and magnets to do its thing. Both are commodity materials and can be had for not much if one does the homework.
So the big price tag as these things go would seem to based on perceived end performance more so than materials.
How well do they stack up against the competition? I have no clue. No one product, particularly wires would seem to have cornered the market on good sound to-date. I could use the same adjectives to describe the sound with my modest in comparison wires, so one has to take superlative words with a grain or two of salt always.
I know of one case outside this thread where a highly respected agoner has indicated that they did not care for the HF wires in their quite SOTA system. So there you go. THe verdict is not universal love always for those who have heard.
Then there is Ddraudt who claims to sell used wires in order to fund new ones. It could be that dd gets the wires from the maker for little or no cost and then sells them for a discounted price (from list as per HF website).
Too many shady areas around here still after all this discussion IMHO. These thing may be the best thing since swiss cheese but at this point I have pretty much lost interest for all the reasons above.
If HF keeps churning these things out I suspect they will find their rightful market value over time, maybe even for a price I would consider someday. We'll see.
A unique product here but lots of smoke and mirrors and an price tag to go along with it.
Unique using a mu metal like conductor and magnets to do its thing. Both are commodity materials and can be had for not much if one does the homework.
So the big price tag as these things go would seem to based on perceived end performance more so than materials.
How well do they stack up against the competition? I have no clue. No one product, particularly wires would seem to have cornered the market on good sound to-date. I could use the same adjectives to describe the sound with my modest in comparison wires, so one has to take superlative words with a grain or two of salt always.
I know of one case outside this thread where a highly respected agoner has indicated that they did not care for the HF wires in their quite SOTA system. So there you go. THe verdict is not universal love always for those who have heard.
Then there is Ddraudt who claims to sell used wires in order to fund new ones. It could be that dd gets the wires from the maker for little or no cost and then sells them for a discounted price (from list as per HF website).
Too many shady areas around here still after all this discussion IMHO. These thing may be the best thing since swiss cheese but at this point I have pretty much lost interest for all the reasons above.
If HF keeps churning these things out I suspect they will find their rightful market value over time, maybe even for a price I would consider someday. We'll see.