$10k Speaker Cables??????????????

Agree with part of GK post there.

Certainly good ol George has proven himself to be a major troll and hypocrite by launching this thread with no intention of ever returning to it himself and knowing just what trouble it would start.

And yet elsewhere he calls for other OP,s of threads to close them because they are now "toxic".

Sorry George but have to call this as I see it, "two face" is your new name.

But as for buying 10k cables and upwards, sure there are people who blow that on cables, not me but as you say build it and they will come!

As I have said many times before: $10K cables, and for that matter, $200K turntables, $600K speakers, etc etc exist because there are so many people these days with net worths north of $1B who probably send someone out to do their audio shopping for them. 

Never pay more than 1k for your smoked  wallabie.....'low and slow is the way to go'

The world has less that 3,000 billionaires-- no, these products are made for high net-worth professionals and of course, the venerable trust-fund-babies. Pity the fools that actually believe they have improved their system by dropping $10k on one set of cables. I've said it before; once you hit a certain threshold of material and build quality (unless you're buying pure silver, platinum, or gold), there are no more improvements-- just differences. As in fine wine. You want to believe that your $10k cables bought you "better" sound? Of course you do! One other thing-- a lot of the "buzz" some folks get from buying crazy expensive stuff comes from the warm and fuzzy feelings they get believing they've bought something that's out of "your" reach. Setting them (and their toys), in their minds, apart and above "you". Whoop-te-do! Oh, and if it's not clear enough already, I am not saying cables don't make a difference or that a cheap Radio Shack cable is as good as an Audioquest model etc., just saying with cables, quality plateaus in the hundreds, not thousands of dollars. Many cable-makers are absolutely chumping their customers with outrageous claims and laughing their asses off all the way to the bank.