$10k Speaker Cables??????????????


Where does this madness end??? My friend the editor reviews this craziness!!
https://www.soundstageaustralia.com/index.php/reviews/209-in-akustik-referenz-ls4004-air-loudspeaker...

Cheers George
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I believe in high quality cables but not buying into the $10K+ price point some companies are marketing.  Some people obviously have too much money and too little brains.
I am not so sure. If you own $170,000 speakers. or $250,000 speakers.. Spending $20,000 on sets of biwires might make sense.
It is a fallacy to believe that buying ultra expensive speakers warrants ultra-expensive cables.  Besides the difference between $10,000 and $200,000 speakers is likely only on the order of 5% in sound quality (law of diminishing returns).  That would suggest that the very subtle "improvements" that ultra-expensive cables could (maybe) provide ultra-expensive speakers would be barely audible.

However, if you freeze those new cables, put wood blocks under them , attach batteries, put voo-doo goop on the terminals and ensure the the direction is correct...well then the differences could be mind-blowingly jaw-dropping!
You dont have to resort to quoting the most extreme claims of some cable manufacturers to make your point. Not all of us that spend a fair amount on cables believes the most extreme marketing hype nor do we necessarily buy from the manufacturers that spew this nonsense. 
I do not get the notion that anyone else can whine about what I spend on ANYTHING. This is not a Socialist country. You do not get to report me to the authorities for having more than you! If you are envious, then go get a better job! If some rich person buys a $300,000 pair of speakers, or earrings, or speaker cables... I would say great! glad you like them. Not whine about it.