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They start at $10,250 for a 50cm pair...
The same shop also lists a USB cable starting at $2000, so your ones and zeros arrive shiny and clean.
They start at $10,250 for a 50cm pair...
The same shop also lists a USB cable starting at $2000, so your ones and zeros arrive shiny and clean.
Looking at the cable co's website, here's a list of most expensive cables:
Interconnects 4m $35k.
Speaker cable 3m $89k.
Mains lead 3m $31k.
Phono cable 3m $48k.
Digital coax 3m $19k.
Digital optical 2m $5.5k.
USB 3m $19k.
HDMI 5m a mere $700 - though they will flog you a 30m one.
Subwoofer 10m $5.5k.
iPod cable 3m $3.5k - so that's how many times as much as the iPod?
Jumper cables 35cm $10.5k.
Guitar cable, 20ft - $12k.
Madness.
imagine what kit that could buy ?
Even as someone who has heard/imagined* differences in some cabling, I cannot get my head around the notion** that there's a market for this price level, and that someone would spend more on a cable than on the attached equipment - such as the iPod cable above.
*Delete to suit preference.
**Actually, I can. The principle is called anchoring. Set a stupid price and it will make your 'cheaper' offerings seem less outlandish than would be the case without the anchor. The aim of the silly-priced item is not to sell, it's to encourage sales further down your food chain.
Anchoring (cognitive bias) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
With the numbers for the UK price likely to be about the same as the US price, the most expensive USB cable at 2 meters, will cost about 10 times as much as I paid for my DAC/headphone amp. I paid just under 20 quid for a QED cable, mainly for the gold plated contacts so I don't have to unplug and plug in again from time to time, as is often needed with USB.I cannot get my head around the notion** that there's a market for this price level, and that someone would spend more on a cable than on the attached equipment - such as the iPod cable above.
Good point.The principle is called anchoring. Set a stupid price and it will make your 'cheaper' offerings seem less outlandish than would be the case without the anchor. The aim of the silly-priced item is not to sell, it's to encourage sales further down your food chain.
Anchoring (cognitive bias) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
That's it. A £1k cable is 'obviously' going to be offer much more than 10% of what a £10k cable does, so it's a bargain.