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And just think, with $20000 speaker cable, you only have to sell, oh, 3 or 4 sets a year to make a sustainable living--the materials probably cost about $1 each, at most.

I'm in the wrong business, I want to sell 20k cables to old people and take away their retirement.

S'ok, no one has any retirement right now.

Wall street is several steps ahead of you. It seems selling junk bonds is much more profitable than monster cables.

You're too kind...

I agree. But I'd argue (politely) that those rich fools who buy them do so because they are made to believe that a cable of such price does make a difference in sound quality. I wouldn't think that such a person would spend egregious amounts on a cable just because, without any notion that they'd be getting something better.

But still, back the OP... As others have said, Monster Cables are technically fine, they're just expensive. Your M60's will be happy.

So we buy a lot of substandard, reject wires for pennies, splice and wrap it up together, put a nice sleeve on it, and sell it as an designer 'acoustically perfect' cable for $$$. Sounds suspiciously like the 'sub prime' fiasco. We'll make millions.

I think rich fools buy them because to them, x thousand dollars on a cable doesn't sound like that much money and they assume that if it costs more, it must be better, and they think, "By God I'm rich, and I deserve the best!"

Case in point, my dad, who is not insanely rich but can also afford thousand dollar cables if he wanted to, recently ALMOST purchased a $1k+ HDMI cable (Transparent Cable) because his installer told him it'd give him the best picture on his new Runco projector.

He didn't even think to question it, but when I was reviewing the proposal I told him he'd be absolutely nuts to spend the money on it... Once he did a bit of research, he realized the same thing, but in a different situation, he would simply have purchased the cable because someone he trusted (an installer) told him it was "the best."

So Mark, I'm with you, they exist largely because people will buy them!

I agree. But I'd argue (politely) that those rich fools who buy them do so because they are made to believe that a cable of such price does make a difference in sound quality. I wouldn't think that such a person would spend egregious amounts on a cable just because, without any notion that they'd be getting something better.
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They buy them because they are idiots with more money than functioning brain cells. I happen to know a fella who is making a killing selling bottled “Pure Alaska Water” for animals. He’s pretty sharp, did some marketing and built a web sight that is targeted to the same type of idiots who spend 20 grand on speaker cables. Because it isn’t being consumed by humans, regulation and FDI testing / inspection is not required. It is city tap water right out of the faucet of his trailer house. One of his ‘customers’ are Madonna.

lets hope none of the alaskan water customers stumble onto this forum!

I get the feeling that Mike doesn't care if they do...

Its really depressing to know that there is for almost every product for sale, there is someone trying to rip someone else off. Let the buyer beware.