Harmonic Technology Cyberlight cables

As with most of the high end cables, these are priced at about 10 times what they should cost based on manufacturing costs. Of course, the way things have gotten in the industry, to be considered as really high end they have to be really high priced. Optical cable costs pennies per foot. And if you all are willing to pay $400 for a battery power supply then I'm really in the wrong line of work.

Breaking the ground should be a good thing and these cables may actually make a useful difference. However, any time I ask the question "what other system upgrades are available at this price" then expensive cabling always comes up short. You'd have to spend a minimum $5000 to wire your system with this stuff. More if you have a more complex setup. For that kind of money I can think of a lot of component upgrades or system changes (bi-amping or acoustic treatments for example)that would be within my reach and have the potential to make more of a difference.

Sadly, none of what I say will deter any customers. Might as well pick up those $30,000 speaker cables while you're at it. Gotta have 'em to impress your friends.

Quick, somebody find a way to reverse engineer this product so that we can DIY it for $50 or less. That would get my attention. The world is full of over priced cables. The only reason cable companies are coming out of the woodwork, so to speak, is that the profit margins are insane.

Building optical cables is not new. Marketing really expensive cables to audiophiles is not new. So the outside the box part would be...marketing the technology to audiophiles???

I didn't bash the cable at all. I suggested, and rightly so, that the price was fabricated to put these cables in the same leaque with other high priced cables. I also said that I probably wouldn't be discouraging anyone inclined to buy them. I would be willing to bet that construction cost on this cable would allow it to be sold for $150 rather than $1500. You probably don't know very much about cable technology, otherwise you would realize that, outside the box or not, technologicly speaking, there is nothing bleeding edge about this cable. Optical cables have been around for ages but no one has bothered to apply it to analog. I would love to have these some of these cables just because of the elimination of the electrical ground. You'll probably never see them in my system though because of the markup.

I have to disagree with two of your statements, Brad.

"For every electron that comes into the system, it outputs 1 photon into the fiber and then back."

A one to one ratio here is of no consequence in terms of retrieving the whole signal at the receiving end.

"The Cyberlight wire's input and output are pure R."

I may be nitpicking here but there is no such thing as a pure R with no capacitance or inductance. It may be significantly lower than in normal wires, and this would be a good thing, but....