Has anyone heard these $169,000 speaker cables?

[Spareribs]

Nice sound?



http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls....pkr&1159629284

 

[mulveling]

Well, I really don't understand why nobody's replied yet with their impressions on the sound - I mean, you clearly posted your inquiry in the correct forum. I almost bought a set myself a while back, but the shipping quote from UPS was outrageous

 

[Czilla9000]

They're actually asking only$16900. It's a steal

Anyway, since you're a Headfier, and I'm such a nice guy, I will build you an identical cable for a measely $5500. It's the least I can do

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Seriously, the cable contains about $50 worth of parts. Don't believe me, you commie, well take a look at this:


...errr....well, they took down the site....but somone did a dissection of it and found that it contained the following....

- lots of epoxy glue, as filler

- an inductor

- a resistor and a capacitor, wired together as a zobel network

$16,000

 

[RedLeader]

I don't believe you! Yay for being a commie!









Actualy I do, I just like communism. It's a great idea in theory, now if only we could get rid of the fact that humans will be using it...

 

[Thaddy]

Thanks for the good chuckle

 

[Konig]

It still didnt match the $28000 cable i saw at a military radar station

 

[Nospam]

Yeah, but that cable was most likely designed (by excessively well-paid engineers) to insane specifications and could probably survive a nuclear war.

The cable on audiogon is a freaking interconnect! Who the heck pays $17K for an audio cable???

 

[uzziah]

if i won the lottery tonight i'd buy it and light it on fire. anyone got the winning numbers?

 

[Bails]

They sound okay. Personally I prefer something a bit more high-end.

 

[mbd]

I reckon you could get them for $100 less at powermax.

 

[Spareribs]

oops, my error! It's actually $16,900. I need glasses.

I am now relieved that they are cheaper than I originally thought.

 

[ken36]

Silly, silly!

 

[felixkrull6]

Wow, only $16,900!

Finally, something in my price range.

 

[Awk.Pine]

It just bothers me that they're marketed as transparent, when anyone with at least a seeing eye dog can tell that they're opaque. Now, the Emperor's new clothes, those were transparent. Maybe this is the mid-fi relative of the Emperor's new interconnect?

 

[rsaavedra]

Wow a whole order of magnitude reduction in price after your misreading. Imagine if you suddenly realized the HD650's were just $30 instead of ~$300!


Very curious the shape of those cables, the large glob in the middle with four tiny stubs/legs, and the two long and thin "snakes" protruding from it.

Is it only me or does anyone else see the a similarity between those cables and a diplodocus?

This similarity makes me especulate whether such cables might be facing any risk of extinction.



PS. Check out the bottom of this table for the prices of some other dinosaurs, I mean, pricey cables.