Case in point:
When I first came across these boards, I had Cambridge Soundworks Ensemble 1s as my speakers, and an old, vaguely functional Toshiba silver face receiver from the early 80s.
I was actually thinking about spending money on Kimber cables in order to improve my sound in leiu of saving for new speakers.
Doesn't make much sense in hindsight--no cables could give me any midrange with those speakers; nor would they have fixed the left channel dropout problem on the receiver. But they would have cost me at least 1/8 of the price of my M50s, and for a just married guy just out of college, that's some money.
