Sum Total Cost Of All Cables In Your Rig?

deep_333 OP

2,117 posts

12-02-2025 at 03:10pm 

I actually bought some Asian inspired Nordost at some point...I used to refer to it as Nordost Long in an affectionate fashion.

Asian inspired Nordost would imply a version of an actual Nordost cable, perhaps some special edition that you’ve dreamt up. I don’t recall them ever making anything like this. 

A Nordost inspired Asian counterfeit is a Chinese fake that resembles Nordost in the way it looks. From far. One of those good from far but far from good thingies. Pretty sure this is what you ended up with. 

Probably about $30K of list price in a $130K system.  But who pays list for anything, especially cables.  Guess I'm a bit under invested in cable but the sound quality is terrific. 

Cables are a fun buy aren't they?

Awesome looking setup @coppy777 

In previous systems I had easily spent around five figures on cables. Now I gravitate towards the smaller brands who I think offer similar or better sound for less money. Still maybe $4-6k so about half as much.

I’m at less than $200 for all my audio cables in 2 systems.  All are from Blue Jeans Cable.  LC-2 for interconnects and Canare 4S11 for speaker cables.

I would love to pit my cables in a blind listening test using someone that has spent 5-10K on cables and see if he or she can pick out which is which.  And above all if I can hear any difference.  But I more than understand that just because I can't hear any difference doesn't mean there isn't any.