Vespertine
go get into a cable biz so we can have good discounts from you
in real world i tend to trust cables, i had Atlas Spdif and sold it because it was not nearly as good as Wireworld Spdif i have, i also trust my all silver 8mm thick double wire speaker cables. as regards toslink glass fiber the cheaper cables are made of plastic, not glass.
Fiber no problem ... I can even terminate them for you ... right now ...
I suppose it is like anything, I was just thinking about parallels to the Fine Art Market. It is pretty similar really, where the cost of materials and time does not necessarily equate to the sticker price. In one case it has a lot to do with marketing, I know that for a fact for Art, and the other I suspect is the same after a point.
I think that at those kind of prices your returns really will have diminished beyond the resolution of human hearing. There has to be a point where only instruments can distinguish the difference, the ear is just not capable.
However of course I agree that better cables will give better sound, I have never doubted that, I have only doubted one thing about cables which I will never say anything about ever again
I suppose there are all sorts of parallels when you get to "High End" ... people WANT reassuringly expensive with everything if they have the money....
We are all a bit guilty of it in a way .... well I am ... not to that extent, but I will tend to believe a more expensive headphone is better than a cheaper one with no evidence at all other than the price. It is a cognitive bias, we have many of them ... thousands, and good marketing men know them as well as good psychologists....
I suppose we can draw a parallel with the 1plus2, no it's component parts do not make up the price we pay, but we are all MORE than happy to pay for what Gavin has created, interestingly to a point also for many of us, where only some of us have taken the next step with the Uber and loads of us are hovering around really curious but can't quite justify the price, I suspect that the fact it costs nearly the same as the headphones themselves plays a part here too, it seems out of proportion logically, another bias.
Probably why we are all talking about it and waiting for Audiowood to report on one that costs half the price, less than....
Certainly the case for me...
If the uber was 525USD I would buy it instantly, but it isn't.... I can afford the full price, but I cannot justify it, mainly because it costs the same as the headphones. The bias wins although logically I might be cheating myself out of a lot more joy. Maybe one day I will find out