New level of ridiculousness

Here you go, a justification! I knew, somebody would say that!!!

Some people equate cost with better sound quality and it is`nt that strong a correlation in high end audio IMO.This is why I`m an advocate of an open market and free enterprise. People are free to purchase what that want without a need to explain or justify.Choice and freedom is great. If you feel the price is unfair,too high,low value etc.,well you just don`t buy and move on along.
Regards,

10-31-12: Charles1dad
Some people equate cost with better sound quality and it is`nt that strong a correlation in high end audio IMO.

I'll second that.

As I see it most audiophiles, including both "believers" and "skeptics," would agree that generally recognized science cannot explain why a $9K power strip might provide better sonic results than a well made power strip selling for say 1/20th of that amount. At least in terms that would stand up when analyzed quantitatively.

A corollary to that which seems to not be widely considered, however, is that even if we assume that the $9K price is justifiable based on the use of exotic materials and construction techniques, if the mechanisms by which those ultra-expensive materials and construction techniques work their magic are not technically explainable, how do we know that a lot of what is being paid for is not overkill that provides no sonic benefit? And how do we know that if a careful and genuinely open-minded comparison was performed in a $300K system between that power strip and a variety of $500 strips, that one of those relatively inexpensive strips would not provide sonic results that are comparable or even better?

Regards,
-- Al

Those damned Toulouse Lautrec paintings, when he lived over the whore house he would give you one for a good dinner and a glass of Absinthe. Some idiots are paying over a million dollars a piece for these things. When I buy a Lautrec, I don't pay more than $50.00 which is, oh, something more than ten times times what a good meal would have cost him.

Ya know, I was just down at the grocery store buyin' a nice box of Carlo Rossi rose. It gets the missis in the mood, ya know? There was some moron right next to me pickin' out some Chateau Effete something or other, from 1954, he said it was "new original stock" or somethin'. Like they made it, but no one drunk it. Well, if no one wanted it from 1954 to now, why the hell am I gonna' drink it? Hell, I want fresh wine, in a new box, not that old crap. Now get this, he was payin' what, a couple of hundred bucks for his old grape juice. Go figgur. This must be the same guy I read about that bought that $30,000 shower curtain. You think he drinks that wine in the shower? Life's a kick, isn't it?