[Jasper994]

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Originally Posted by MD1032 2m of copper wire is all you get?! For 12k you should get 20 feet of professionally braided silver wire! This is almost as crazy as those expensive knobs...

What are you smokin'? for $12k it should come with a freakin massage therapist to massage away the pain of buyer's remorse... Silver is actually very cheap by the way.

YOU CAN BUY A NEW CAR FOR $12K!!!

 

[tortie]

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Originally Posted by Jasper994 YOU CAN BUY A NEW CAR FOR $12K!!!

Yup, but that's how some of my friends react when I tell them my headphone & replacement cable costs $500+. "You could have bought an ipod!"

 

[BigD]

Please someone write review on this at audiocubes.

 

[warubozu]

Man $12k is just insane for a pair of speaker cables. I have a hard time just shelling out $500 for a set of speaker cables.

 

[warubozu]

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Originally Posted by saint.panda I remember a thread about a tube amp with a MSRP over 100k. In the Audiogon post he also stated that he'd be willing to trade the amp for a car or a house.

Here's a similar Audiogon post for a Vyger Indian Signature turntable in which the seller is willing to take an SUV or pickup in trade, the turntable actully got sold.


http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls....abl&1096838897

 

[ampgalore]

Any prenump should contain the following clause: when your audio gear gets as expensive as a car or a house, your wife has the obligation to check you into a psychiatric ward, and then trade your audio gear on audiogon for a real car or house.

 

[Kenny12]

do they come with a box of placbo to increase sound quality? get it, get it!

 

[PhilS]

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Originally Posted by Kenny12 do they come with a box of placbo to increase sound quality? get it, get it!

Actually, I've heard that the placebo effect with these cables is so strong, you don't even have to own them. You just need to look at these cables for awhile on the web site, and then think about them while you listen to your own system, and you will find major improvements in bass, soundstage, etc.

 

[audio_juggernaut]

Reviews: Be the first one to write a review.

 

[Jon L]

Well, one point worth mentioning is Esoteric is reporting use of "7N" (7 nines) purity copper. If true, that's a LOT more rare and expensive than 6N copper normally used in other cables.

However, it is also true that 7N purity is very hard to prove and document. Some just lie about it.

So, if it indeed is 7N copper, I think about $600-1000 would be a fair price for well-made cables like those.

There are $10K+ cables I may conceivably consider, but they would be cables made of lots of pure Palladium, Platinum, and gold (yes, they do exist!).

 

[Flea Bag]

Oh dear... It's the sound that matters, not the material! You could replace a $200 cable 10 times to equal the cost of a single $2000 cable, let alone $10k!

Please donate your extra money to charity!

But I'm serious to some extent.

www.mercycorps.com to help at Sudan or wherever it's needed most.

 

[HD-5000]

Whoa, imagine how many children you could feed with $12,000?

Think, if you had given the food to the desperately poor, how many lives could you save? Will somebody please think of the children?

Half joking, half very serious.

 

[Oliver :)]

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Originally Posted by Jasper994 YOU CAN BUY A NEW CAR FOR $12K!!!

If you are in the market for $12K cables, then $12 don't buy you a new car. They probably buy your car's tires and wheels. Or maybe the seats. Money, money, money...

$12K buy a lot of rainforest though.

Anyway, 12K for cable? Dang, and I bi-wire! Seriously, if you're out and about in the $5K cable range, do you still bi-wire? I mean just bi-wire, not bi-amp.

 

[Edwood]

From my perspective, that is obscenely overpriced.

For that price I could take a few months off from working and make one myself, which includes buying the materials and tools.

-Ed

 

[Kirosia]

Why not use the 12k to upgrade your source/amp/speakers/etc?

I don't really understand why someone would buy such expensive cables, other than the knowledge that "they're expensive so they must be good". Which is true only like 1/2-3/4 of the time.

I.e portable bottled water, which I do like, but prices sometimes are quite a bit. One company based in New Hampshire just takes water straight from the tap and bottles it, selling for a hell of a lot of profit. Don't know which though. (I got this info from a reliable source)