Sum Total Cost Of All Cables In Your Rig?

@parkergetdean 

I also have this fear that I am going to be robbed and they are gonna tie me up with my cables and I'm gonna be smiling because they have no clue how much they're worth. 
 

I am not worried about amplifiers being stolen because they weigh nearly 200 pounds.  

"I spend money on my cables because it makes me feel better. Does it sound better I don't know." 

I think my first purchase of cables was inspired like this By the time I bought a second set... my criteria moved to "worth the sound quality improvement that I heard". I made a couple mistakes and they made my system sound worse... because my components were inexpensive and sounded very harsh when transparency was introduced. So, I backed off to less expensive copper interconnects to help cover the harshness and warm up the presentation. As my systems got better the higher end the cables were, then better they made my system sound. 

if your cables are not strong enough to tie you up when they haul away your rig, they should at least have a fake price tag on them

I don’t think I paid full retail for all of my cables,  but over 55 years I bet I’ve spent $35-45k in speaker, interconnect, power cables and bulk cable and various ends. and I have resold at least half of them. So knock at least half off the above numbers. The good news is except for maybe one digital cable, I’m done and I will probably sell a few more power and interconnects I’m not using anymore.