How Much Have You Spent On Cables Throughout The Years. I'm Shocked When I Checked.


I just checked the total cost of cables which I still own, all types of cables including spares. It's all recorded in an Excel sheet, actual price paid and not MSRP.

I'm shocked. It's a whopping sum of $22.4k. crying

I'm sure there would be people who have spent more. I have seriously overspent on cables though I still need to get another mains power cable before I call it a day, a rather costly one. 

 

ryder

it was worth every penny considering the impact you get from good cables. Problem seems to be that some people cannot afford it

@tom2015 

Some folks can't afford high-end cables yet they have zero issues with them or with the folks who buy them

Some folks can totally afford them yet they are highly skeptical of their value other than as audio jewelry (audio jewelry is totally fine in my book)

You're not the only one who wants to make this a class issue, but that is reductive and ignores a more complex reality. 

 

Let’s start a GoFundMe for Amir to go visit Jaysaudiolab’s new duel listening rooms. Would go a long way towards settling this debate. 

@devinplombier 

I didn’t want to make it a class issue, but it becomes a disposable income issue or value for money discussion every time. Some people take an aggressive position to argue against something they can’t hear or don’t believe in. They cannot hear is ok, hearing is subjective. But they cannot sound different and someone should not spend money on it is simply misplaced in an audio cable forum. We are buying a sound signature not a cable. The material of the cable is obviously not worth the asking prices, but a Odin sound signature is unique and apparently they can charge that much for it.

"You're not the only one who wants to make this a class issue, but that is reductive and ignores a more complex reality. "

+1

we have 5 senses (unless you believe in ESP) sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing.

I've never heard anybody claim they can exactly quantify by measurement what see, smell, taste, or feel. Yet the cult at ASR claims that they can measure and quantify exactly what we hear.

Just because you can measure some things that affect our senses, it does not mean you are measuring everything involved.

Those that think we completely understand everything that affects how we perceive the world around us are hopelessly naive and gullible. 

That said, I use about $200 worth of Canare quad star cables with decent connectors throughout a fairly high end system. Spend your money elsewhere.