Sum Total Cost Of All Cables In Your Rig?

@mgrif104 

Agreed. 

We should be able to agree to disagree. There is no call for incoherent / hostile replies unless one opened the door, which definitely wasn't the case here. 

I have an account at What's Best Forum but I hardly ever read and don't post.

@mgrif104 

"I’m not going to play along on the cost discussion."

"I am curious enough to understand that I don’t know what I don’t know. So I read. And I listen."

Your initial post implies that your point of view supersedes everyone else’s and continues on as condescending with -

"it seems to me a rational essay on why a listen is worthwhile and that not all “cable designers” are snake oil salespeople"

You think we should except hyperbole as fact. Nnnnno!

Oh, your grammar is incorrect here. You don’t reword an individual’s comments and put them in quotes unless its verbatim. Otherwise, you’re just taking it out of context.

With that I believe you’re referencing my long list of interconnects and cables followed by my technically accurate assertion regarding why I think cables make a difference followed by the priorities I use to choose these components for my system, I then concluded with a little tongue in cheek. 

"I honestly have no idea how to respond to faustuss and so I won’t"

You went on for two more paragraphs about it! Your flimsy arguments dissolve into character assassination when people don’t aggrandize you. You’re not astute, just mostly whiny and your only business here is to incite a confrontation. Voila!

@devinplombier Likes to talk out of both sides of his mouth as well.

This is an interesting thread.  Just about everybody is estimating, but most know exactly what they spent on speakers and electronics.

@billsw 

Not surprising. If you had 20 sets of speakers instead of just 1 or 2, you would estimate at that, too...

On a audio/music forum? You don't get out much, do you? Well, i suppose you could go hang out with some angelic wallstreet dudes, pharma dudes,  cia dudes, war dudes, etc...

what a fine collection of terrible people

@faustuss wrote:

@devinplombier Likes to talk out of both sides of his mouth as well.

I like to fancy myself a centrist with respect to cables. I can look at people disagree without feeling an obligation to take sides. As long as the parties are reasonably intelligent, as seems the case here, I can appreciate their respective, opposing arguments. Again, reasonably intelligent people should be able to agree to disagree. 

Don't get me started on audiophile network switches though :)