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displayname said:
In some circles, that’s the price of a cable.

I recently got to experience a system in a room custom built for the audio system. Let me be very specific here. This was not a room that was tailored to the audio. No no. That would imply customization to an existing facility.

This individual waited for the home next door to go up for sale, purchased the home next door, leveled the property, and built a 2000+ sqft extension of his home, all designed around the audio system being on the second floor of this “wing” of the home. The system was housed in a dedicated room with treated and tapered walls. All the building materials were carefully considered. The system was built around the Wilson chronosonic speakers. In this world, $35K is considered a reasonable price for a single 1M cable.
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Lee Newman said:
Dude, If I won the lottery, I could easily put together a million dollar system. Not going to do it, but I could.
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I don’t think I could. I’ve looked at what I’d really really want and I think I’d be maxing out at €50-80k regardless. I don’t think I’d ever want to chase the dragon to the point that small incremental increases in sound were costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. I think the fun is lost at that stage and it feels almost immoral as an expense. Plus I don’t think I’d want to get mad complicated specialist gear that finicky and temperamental either. There’s something nice about consumer gear in that it’s solid and it works as it’s designed to all the time.
 
Listening to the new remaster of Freedom by Neil. What is it about the audiophile journey that makes drums stand out? Like I guess crispness and separation, but albums that the drums just kind of there before have DRUMS.
 
displayname said:
In some circles, that’s the price of a cable.

I recently got to experience a system in a room custom built for the audio system. Let me be very specific here. This was not a room that was tailored to the audio. No no. That would imply customization to an existing facility.

This individual waited for the home next door to go up for sale, purchased the home next door, leveled the property, and built a 2000+ sqft extension of his home, all designed around the audio system being on the second floor of this “wing” of the home. The system was housed in a dedicated room with treated and tapered walls. All the building materials were carefully considered. The system was built around the Wilson chronosonic speakers. In this world, $35K is considered a reasonable price for a single 1M cable.
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I try not to judge how people decide to spend their money. For that outlay, I'm sure the result sounded fantastic. For me, that level of expenditure would be better spent traveling to multiple venues to hear live music. Or even paying for live music to be performed at home. To each his own.

But to the point on a $35K cable, that does not actually mean that it performs audibly better than a $35 cable. It just means that the owner preferred the $35,000 one. Electrical conduction of audio signals really is not that complicated.
 
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