why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable

When all you can do is throw mud.. I think your arguments are finished. Time to throw in the towel dynaquest4!

Not throwing mud...making an opinion known. My opinion. You are also free to espouse an opinion. Try to limit the personal defamations if you can. This is common on this forum...defame the message AND the messenger.

And, BTW, I was saying something good about, in my opinion, a product of very poor value. Give me some credit! 😎

Threads like this.. They're attractive to audiophiles like a shiny bit of tinsel to a crow..
You just HAVE to respond
Adding anther few lines of infinite wisdom to the outhouse floor.

Agree!  Was wondering myself the necessity or your latest response. 

Blah blah. Blind test. Some can’t tell some can tell. You have to have the ear. Or more importantly your own ear 

HDMI cables do NOT carry anything that in any way resembles an audio or or video signal. Try piping the raw output of your favorite movie soundtrack from an HDMI cable into an amp. I promise you won't hear music. The data coming through an HDMI cable is low level machine language. Nothing more. It might as well be a text recipe for cheesecake. I'm sorry if you think you're seeing and hearing something more with some crazy priced HDMI cable. If you'd just read the specs for the technology you'd know it's impossible and what you're really hearing or seeing is purely in your imagination.