Sum Total Cost Of All Cables In Your Rig?

$1000 bought me my XLRs, RCAs, and a few hundred feet of the best speaker cable you can possibly buy: plain old 12 AWG OFC.

Current collection of cables outlined in my system:

https://www.audiogon.com/systems/10635

List price: >$30,000

My records show I paid approximately $15,000 as all but one were previously owned.

@squared80 “…the best speaker cable you can possibly buy: plain old 12AWG OFC”

I agree 100% with solid core being a good budget choice.

“What Hi-Fi” magazine in the UK during the 1980s started the debate with solid core copper cables. They claimed it could be the most cost effective improvement for speaker wire, and the simplest of upgrades.

l certainly found mains solid core copper 24AWG made remarkable difference’s with my Celestion 25 floor standers, and later Mission Freedom 770’s bass responses.

I’m not going to play along on the cost discussion. I’ve read through the posts which confirms some believe they have a full enough understanding of the science to sidestep employing costly wire in their system. Fair enough. I concluded differently.

I’m a retired finance person but like to think of myself as scientifically curious. More importantly, I am curious enough to understand that I don’t know what I don’t know. So I read. And I listen. And sometimes I buy when I think it merits the spend. 

I found the following article interesting and germaine to the discussion. Perhaps some of you will as well. https://positive-feedback.com/audio-discourse/cables-always-sound/

Some of you may argue otherwise, or argue that diminishing returns are at play. Again - fair enough. But it seems to me a rational essay on why a listen is worthwhile and that not all “cable designers” are snake oil salespeople. 

@mgrif104 

"I’m not going to play along on the cost discussion. I’ve read through the posts which confirms some believe they have a full enough understanding of the science to sidestep employing costly wire in their system. Fair enough. I concluded differently.

I’m a retired finance person but like to think of myself as scientifically curious. More importantly, I am curious enough to understand that I don’t know what I don’t know. So I read. And I listen. And sometimes I buy when I think it merits the spend. 

I found the following article interesting and germaine to the discussion. Perhaps some of you will as well. https://positive-feedback.com/audio-discourse/cables-always-sound/

Some of you may argue otherwise, or argue that diminishing returns are at play. Again - fair enough. But it seems to me a rational essay on why a listen is worthwhile and that not all “cable designers” are snake oil salespeople." 

Seems like you're convinced but. Skoff’s background is in economics, I can’t find where he was schooled in his bio. CWMA is a marketing organization (hmm?) and AAHEA is faith based. His research in the subject is as a hobbyist as is ours. Read between the lines!