Comments on: The most expensive speaker cable in the world?

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:18:21 +0000

Its funny, but most of you here are actually forgetting something called placebo. I believe, that more you pay for this type of luxury, more your personal feeling plays role than the actual quality of the equipment. Should i consider replacing something in a home audio, it would be amplifier, and not the cables. Amplifier will make 99.99 % of improvement. Does it really worth to pay 20k for improvement of 0.01 % ? I am absolutely convinced, that listening to system with middle rangle cabling and speakers using good tube amplifier will simply perform better than any cables, even if you pay 200k for them.

By: jo dancy

jo dancy — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:41:43 +0000

as a postscript..these interconnects cost about two thousand pounds..sadly i have to return them,,lol,,all i can say is if you have a chance to try expensive cables..please try them..as it can make your system sing..my main source was vinyl, cds sounded fab too!i think my system costs about the same as these cables![i bought most of my kit secondhand]…

By: jo dancy

jo dancy — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:30:29 +0000

i can hear a difference between cables…i think there might be case for how we listen? i recently borrowed a pair of interconnects which are very,very expensive..my system is ok, roksan,quad,dynaudio..i was thinking two things before i tried them,the first was that my system wasnt good enough to show the interconnects virtues..and secondly that my dynaudios would be the biggest bottleneck…i placed the cables between power amp and pre amp,and then my jaw dropped!…profound difference!!!..apart from the usual things, articulation..soundstage..etc..the main thing is how it changed the timing of the music..the rhytmns seemed to change..things i was familiar with became a new listening experience..the second thing i noticed was how my speakers rose to the challenge,they are near the bottom of the dynaudio tree…im now wondering whether interconnects make the big,big changes…so before i change my equipment..it will be the interconnects i change first.

By: TheProf

TheProf — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:46:23 +0000

I’m sorry. the manufacturers of this cable are paying out more money to ‘engineer’ these cables. If you bought these, (a BIG “IF”)would you strip them down or cut them in half ‘just to check’ the double spiralling? I’m guessing not. So how would the purchaser know what was under the plastic coating? It may well be 3 metres of kettle chord for $21000, that would be 20,999 profit on the chord, krikey.
Also, you hearing deteriorates after the age of 15, and aftwer the age of 25 you have lost a third of the audible frequency range. Basically the people who would buy this are already partially deaf.
Is a wealthy idiot easier to fool than a regular idiot?

By: mak

mak — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:08:19 +0000

there is a difference, to a point, i had £20 interconnects on a fairly otherwise good system, replaced with £50 interconnects, yes!! i can hear the difference.

but would i go out and wank £150 on interconnects? no, im sure there is a quality difference again but is the difference really worth £100 more to me in my current financial situation? no

end of the day the sound quality is better with pricey stuff but only to a point, that point is up to you and your bank balance to decide

By: nononesense

nononesense — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:21:00 +0000

i just bought expensive cables – trust me they sound better

By: Evhudsons

Evhudsons — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:19:16 +0000

That is the most incredible point made in any forum ever on discussing the cost of home entertainment! I try and have the best that I can afford, starting with speakers, but am pragmatic and thrifty as well. I was reading somewhere about some $58,000 speaker wires, and thought it would be better to just hire bands to play live.

Your point and logic is exactly what I was looking for, thanks and well said!

By: Stephane Paquet

Stephane Paquet — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:01:43 +0000

lynnbay: I know this thread is dead, but you’re an [removed] You’re the kind of person who would actually buy these bullsh*t products, when cheap copper 12AWG cabling would be better. [removed]

By: har

har — Sat, 21 May 2011 18:08:55 +0000

if you buy these you are a f*@king rube, end of story. if you can’t tell the difference in a level matched A/B/X test you can’t tell the difference, no amount of woowoo magic technobullsh*t will change that.
in the end the thing that makes the real difference in a system is the speakers but better ones are big and bulky and wives tend to object to them. so the audiofools will head over to the salon and pick out tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of cable or amp or cd player, take it home, throw magic magic rocks and cable stands and snake oil power supply mods on it and swear it makes all the difference.

By: soundsgood

soundsgood — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:39:43 +0000

Hmmmmm, I don’t see any arrows. It’s only worth $21,000 if it’s got pretty little arrows to tell you which way round the extra special copper prefers to conduct. Huh, AC? what does that mean? Also, it’s got black and blue insulation. black insulation dulls the sound and blue insulation increases the flux capacitance.

Seriously, I’ll stick with using cat5 network cable. Individually PTFE insulated solid copper cores. The laws of physics tell you there is no way of beating that. There’s a difference between being an audiophile and a fool with your money.

Right, I’m off to buy a $1,500 kettle. It makes the tea taste better if the water has been expensively heated.