Sum Total Cost Of All Cables In Your Rig?

Since I’m of the opinion that once you have good conductor, proper shielding and solid terminations you’re 90% of the way home, I’m probably around $700 for my main system. Audioquest and Shunyata entry level power cords bought new or open box — always on sale at Music Direct. Blue Jeans Cable ICs, except for a Kimber phono IC, and BJ speaker cables. 

This can be a freaky hobby.

Cables for hi-fi freaks are in the same league as a girlfriends/spouses collection of fashion enhancing handbags and grab bags.

The two different collections are essentially the same. Both are classed as glamourising accessories.

One camp for sounding good, the other for looking good. Some hi-fi freaks possibly imagine themselves in both worlds. 🤔

Seasons greetings all,

Way back in the day I was a Monster Cable guy. But being a diy’er I started fabricating my own cables, especially when I researched the audio cable mark-ups. Over the ensuing years I’ve invested around  $2,200.00 in raw cable (Mogami, Furetec, Canare) and the appropriate connectors. Oh, and a few dollars for heat shrink tubing in various sizes, colors.  Doing my own has cut my cable cost by at least 60%. 

Reading the answers in this thread leads me to want to start a cable business.  I cannot imagine the profit margins involved with $50K cables.  The owners of these cable businesses must be laughing their asses off.  God Bless America.

@hikerneil On 50K wire and business owners and their cable markups…….

……more like, laughing at the silly asses.