why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable

Why do people feel they need to buy cheap cables??

Cables made of 24k gold would be cheaper than some copper cables . Someone please explain this ? How can a copper cable be worth thousands of dollars ? The answer is someone is willing to pay it . All the pricing is based on what someone is willing to pay and not a set price markup over material costs .

inna,

The only people that can afford the very expensive cables are yuppies. I don't think the companies care if they are audiophiles or not. As long as they can shell out the cash.

How about you buy what you like and I"ll buy what I like.

The term "expensive" doesn't really mean much.
All these responses and discussion over such
an ambiguous term seems rather ridiculous.
Please define "expensive" so I know what we're talking about.

$100, $500, $1000, $5,000, $10,000? For all I know
we may all be talking about different things here.
One person's expensive could be a drop in the bucket to another.

"Why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable?"
Should this read: Why do SOME people feel the need.......?
The answer could only be pure speculation.

The implication from reading this thread is that only stupid gullible people NEED to buy the UNDEFINED expensive cable. So why doesn't the original poster just come out and state that in his wisdom he is superior when it comes to HIS choices of cable and be done with it?
Rather than masquerading his obvious superiority in a thread question.