[KH]

On 12/4/2010 8:45 AM, C. Leeds wrote:
On 12/2/2010 8:18 PM, Audio Empire wrote:

...there is NOTHING that one
can do to a speaker cable to make it worth $6800, even if it were
made of
gold.

I answered:
That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it.

Now Empire sez:

Lots of things in audio are opinions. This just doesn't happen to be
one of
them. Physics and DBTs....

No, you've made a value judgment that these cables aren't "worth" the
price, and that "NOTHING" could make them worth it. That is your value
judgment. The buyers of these products make their own value judgment.
There is no right or wrong with preferences such as this - it's just a
simple, personal preference. You can't logically use science to condemn
someone else's preference.

Seemed pretty clear that he was referring to *technical* (i.e.
performance) value or worth. In that context, he certainly can use
science to ascertain their relative worth, and clearly that answer is
zero additional value relative to mundane cable. Hence all the
discussion surrounding the "bling" factor. Clearly, if pride of
ownership, or aesthetic appreciation of 'firehose' cable is worth the
price to you as a consumer, then you have received value for your money,
and no one so far has claimed anything different as far as I have seen.
If, however, you have purchased such cables based on claims of their
'musicality' relative to other more mundane cables, then you have indeed
been duped.

And as to why are there not "legions" of the duped posting here; get
real. Add up everyone whose ever posted here, on any subject, over the
last say 15 years, and one would be hard pressed to accurately refer to
that list as "legion". and I for one am not interested in searching
Facebook where legions apparently do go to post.

Keith