Alioth's Journal: Audiophools

Mein gott in himmel!

http://www.thecableco.com/product.php?id=2672

I could buy a nice *airplane* for the price of 4m of that cable. Who in their right mind buys this stuff? I spotted this link in today's discussion about Monster cables bullying another cable firm (which, as it happens, sells cables at something only one order of magnitude higher than a reasonable price to pay for interconnect cables).

Now consider this. That almost $6K per metre cable is for *digital* interconnects, where good enough equates to perfect. A piece of twisted pair telephone wire would probably work well enough.

A fool and his money

[Shadow Wrought]

Are soon flying more airplane than they can handle;-)

I know I shouldn't be amazed by stuff like this, but I often am. I remember reading a thing about wine tasting and people sampling wines without knowing the cost, generally ranked them 1-4. Then when they were asked to taste test the same wines (without knowing it), only they were told that wine 4 was the most expensive, then 3, then 2, and then 1. Same wines, but the new ranking was 4-1.

Bottom line, as long as the measure subjective and can say it

They don't sell cables

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

They sell extravagance.

Better than coat hangers?

[SynapticNoise]

It's especially amusing in light of a recent test, where several self-proclaimed "audiophiles" couldn't tell the difference between components connected with Monster cables and those connected with coat hangers :-)

Engadget: Audiophiles can't tell the difference between Monster Cable and coat hangers [engadget.com]

Re:

[Ahruman]

A test a few years ago tried S/PDIF over string soaked in saline solution. 0% bit loss and, surprise surprise, indistinguishable to the finely-trained ear. Of course, Aliothâ(TM)s mistake is the assumption that the potential market is limited to people in their right mind.

Great cable!

[ces]

Assuming you're the sort who buys $300,000 turntables [bornrich.org] and $600,000 speakers [bornrich.org].

Obvious answer...

[anominous]

Make your own, and sell them at 80% of the price. (Don't want to make them too cheap, else they'll not be as good!)

Let the good times roll....